cache
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).
Inflected forms:
form: caches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: caches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: caching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cached
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cached
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A store, protected and often hidden in some way, of things that may be required in the future, such that they can be retrieved rapidly.
pos: noun
examples: 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
gloss: A store, protected and often hidden in some way, of things that may be required in the future, such that they can be retrieved rapidly.
pos: noun
gloss: A store, protected and often hidden in some way, of things that may be required in the future, such that they can be retrieved rapidly.
pos: noun
gloss: To place in a cache.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To store data in a cache.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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 changes often), but you'd still want to cache the results that rarely change.
gloss: To participate in geocaching.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To hide or seek a geocache.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: to store up, stockpile
pos: verb
Related words: coagulate
cogent
squat
Derived words: cacheability
cacheable
cache buster
cache busting
Cache County
cache language model
cacheless
cache-oblivious
cache stampede
femtocache
geocache
multicache
subcache
Tête Jaune Cache
uncache
precache
recache
Translations:
lang: Ahtna
word: tsaa
lang: Bashkir
word: запас
roman: zapas
lang: Bashkir
word: һаҡлам
roman: haqlam
lang: Bulgarian
word: запас
roman: zapas
lang: Dogrib
word: etsaa
lang: Estonian
word: peidik
lang: Finnish
word: varasto
lang: Finnish
word: kätkö
lang: Hebrew
word: מִצְבּוֹר
roman: mitsbór
lang: Hebrew
word: מַחְבּוֹא
roman: makhbó
lang: Hebrew
word: מַאֲגָר
roman: ma'agár
lang: Italian
word: nascondiglio
lang: Italian
word: ripostiglio
lang: Lower Tanana
word: tso
lang: Māori
word: whakaputunga
lang: Norwegian
word: skjulested
lang: Polish
word: schowek
lang: Portuguese
word: esconderijo
lang: Russian
word: запа́с
roman: zapás
lang: Russian
word: тайни́к
roman: tajník
lang: Russian
word: схрон
roman: sxron
lang: Swedish
word: gömma
lang: Dutch
word: cache
lang: Dutch
word: geocache
lang: Finnish
word: kätkö
lang: Finnish
word: geokätkö
lang: French
word: cache
lang: German
word: Geocache
lang: German
word: Cache
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: cache
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: cache
lang: Swedish
word: gömma
lang: Swedish
word: skattgömma