cache

See also: Cache, caché, and cachê

English

Etymology 1

From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean "hiding place for stores"), from the verb cacher.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) enPR: kăsh, IPA(key): /kæʃ/
  • Audio (US)(file)
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  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • Audio (Child US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æʃ
  • Homophone: cash
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /kæɪʃ/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃ

Noun

cache (plural caches)

  1. A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.
    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.
  2. (computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
  3. (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
References
  • JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

Verb

cache (third-person singular simple present caches, present participle caching, simple past and past participle cached)

  1. 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.
  2. (Marijuana smoking) For the herb in a bowl to be entirely burnt to ashes and therefore having become empty, gone, or useless for further smoking
Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

cache (plural caches)

  1. Misspelling of cachet.

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From French cache.

Noun

cache c (singular definite cachen, plural indefinite cacher)

  1. (computing) cache

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • cachehukommelse
  • cachememory

References

French

Etymology

From cacher.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaʃ/
  • Audio (Paris)(file)

Noun

cache f (plural caches)

  1. hiding place

Derived terms

Noun

cache m (plural caches)

  1. cover, mask

Verb

cache

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cacher
  2. third-person singular present indicative of cacher
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cacher
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of cacher
  5. second-person singular imperative of cacher

Further reading

Italian

Adjective

cache f (invariable)

  1. (computing) cache (attributive)

Noun

cache f

  1. (computing) cache

Norman

Verb

cache

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cachi
  2. third-person singular present indicative of cachi
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cachi
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cachi
  5. second-person singular imperative of cachi

Portuguese

Verb

cache

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of cachar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of cachar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of cachar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of cachar

Spanish

Verb

cache

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of cachar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of cachar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of cachar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of cachar.
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