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cache

noun, verb — 8 senses

cache

noun

UK /kæʃ/ · AU, US /kæʃ/

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

› A store, protected and often hidden in some…

1

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.
1 more example
  • I came across a cache of old photos / And invitations to teenage parties1990, Chris Lowe, Neil Tennant, “Being Boring”, performed by Pet Shop Boys:
2

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.

3

A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.

Derived terms
cacheability, cacheable, cache buster, cache busting, Cache County, cache language model, cacheless, cache-oblivious, cache stampede, femtocache, geocache, multicache, subcache, Tête Jaune Cache, uncache

cache

verb

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

1

To 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 depredators.1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
2

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To 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 changes often), but you'd still want to cache the results that rarely change.2008, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Adrian Holovaty, The Definitive Guide to Django, Apress, →ISBN, page 203:
3

To participate in geocaching.

4

To hide or seek a geocache.

5

to store up, stockpile

Derived terms
precache, recache
Related terms
coagulate, cogent, squat

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.

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