/kæʃ/, /kæʃ/, /keɪʃ/
OriginFrom French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).
- Such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons.
“Near-synonym: stash”
“Members of the 29-man Discovery team laid down caches to allow the polar team to travel light, hopping from cache to cache on their return journey.”
“I came across a cache of old photos / And invitations to teenage parties”
- A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
- A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
- alt-of, misspellingMisspelling of cachet.
“The prophecies are an attempt to explore the mystery of democracy, to divine its origin in order to capitalize on its political cache, but also to diagnose the cause of its contemporary malaise.”
- transitiveTo place in a cache.
“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 depredato”
- transitiveTo store data in a cache.
“In this case, it would not be ideal to use the full-page caching that the per-site or per-view cache strategies offer, because you wouldn't want to cache the entire result (since some of the data chan”
- intransitiveTo participate in geocaching.
- transitiveTo hide or seek a geocache.
- to store up, stockpile
Formscaches(plural) · caches(present, singular, third-person) · caching(participle, present) · cached(participle, past) · cached(past)