cache
Etymology 1
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Etymology 1
From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher.
Pronunciation- (British) enPR: kăsh, IPA: /kæʃ/;
- (US, General Australian) enPR: kăsh, kāsh, IPA: /kæʃ/, /keɪʃ/; (proscribed) /kæˈʃeɪ/, /ˈkæʃ.eɪ/
- (Australia) IPA: /kæɪʃ/
cache (plural caches)
- A store, protected or hidden in some way, of things that may be required in the future, such that they can be retrieved rapidly.
- Members of the 29-man Discovery team laid down food caches to allow the polar team to travel light, hopping from food cache to food cache on their return journey.
- (computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
- (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
- Italian: nascondiglio, ripostiglio
- Portuguese: esconderijo
- Russian: запа́с
- French: cache, mémoire cache
- German: Cache, Zwischenspeicher
- Italian: memoria cache, cache
- Portuguese: cache, memória cache
- Russian: кэш
- Spanish: memoria caché, caché
cache (caches, present participle caching; simple past and past participle cached)
- (transitive) To place in a cache.
- 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
- And here the adventurers went ashore, unloaded, turned their canoe bottom up in the shelter of thick brush, and cached their supplies temporarily on a pole scaffold, out of reach of prowling depredators.
- (transitive, computing) To store data in a cache.
cache (plural caches)
- Misspelling of cachet
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