cache

a hiding place; a hidden store of goods: He had a cache of nonperishable food in case of an invasion.

Not to be confused with:

cachet – an official seal, as on a letter or document; a distinguishing feature: Courtesy is the cachet of a gracious hostess.; superior status; prestige: The diplomatic corps has a certain cachet.

cash – currency or coins: They’d rather have cash than a credit card.

cache

(kăsh)

a. An amount of goods or valuables, especially when kept in a concealed or hard-to-reach place: maintained a cache of food in case of emergencies.

b. The concealed or hard-to-reach place used for storing a cache.

2. A fast storage buffer in the central processing unit of a computer. Also called cache memory.

tr.v. cached, cach·ing, cach·es

To hide or store in a cache. See Synonyms at hide¹.

[French, from Middle French, from cacher, to hide, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *coācticāre, to store, pack together, frequentative of Latin coāctāre, to constrain, frequentative of cōgere, coāct-, to force; see cogent.]

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cache

(kæʃ)

1. a hidden store of provisions, weapons, treasure, etc

2. the place where such a store is hidden

3. (Computer Science) computing a small high-speed memory that improves computer performance

4. (tr) to store in a cache

5. (Computer Science) (tr) to store in a cache

[C19: from French, from cacher to hide]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

cache

(kæʃ)

n., v. cached, cach•ing. n.

1. a hiding place for ammunition, food, treasures, etc.

2. anything hidden in a cache.

3. a piece of computer hardware or a section of RAM dedicated to selectively storing and speeding access to frequently used program commands or data.

v.t.

4. to hide in a cache.

[1585–95; < French, n. derivative of cacher to hide < Vulgar Latin *coācticāre to stow away, orig. to pack together]

cache

In evasion and recovery operations, source of subsistence and supplies, typically containing items such as food, water, medical items, and/or communications equipment, packaged to prevent damage from exposure and hidden in isolated locations by such methods as burial, concealment, and/or submersion, to support evaders in current or future operations. See also concealment; evader; evasion; evasion and recovery; recovery; recovery operations.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

Cache

a hiding place, hence, the items hidden; the stores of provisions hidden by travellers or explorers on their journeys.

Examples: cache of green boughs, 1866; of jewels; of meat, 1865; of a barrel of pork, 1842; of provisions; of silver, 1860; of treasure.

cache

Past participle: cached
Gerund: caching

Imperative
cache
cache

Present
I cache
you cache
he/she/it caches
we cache
you cache
they cache

Preterite
I cached
you cached
he/she/it cached
we cached
you cached
they cached

Present Continuous
I am caching
you are caching
he/she/it is caching
we are caching
you are caching
they are caching

Present Perfect
I have cached
you have cached
he/she/it has cached
we have cached
you have cached
they have cached

Past Continuous
I was caching
you were caching
he/she/it was caching
we were caching
you were caching
they were caching

Past Perfect
I had cached
you had cached
he/she/it had cached
we had cached
you had cached
they had cached

Future
I will cache
you will cache
he/she/it will cache
we will cache
you will cache
they will cache

Future Perfect
I will have cached
you will have cached
he/she/it will have cached
we will have cached
you will have cached
they will have cached

Future Continuous
I will be caching
you will be caching
he/she/it will be caching
we will be caching
you will be caching
they will be caching

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been caching
you have been caching
he/she/it has been caching
we have been caching
you have been caching
they have been caching

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been caching
you will have been caching
he/she/it will have been caching
we will have been caching
you will have been caching
they will have been caching

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been caching
you had been caching
he/she/it had been caching
we had been caching
you had been caching
they had been caching

Conditional
I would cache
you would cache
he/she/it would cache
we would cache
you would cache
they would cache

Past Conditional
I would have cached
you would have cached
he/she/it would have cached
we would have cached
you would have cached
they would have cached

Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011

cache

A temporary storage area in a computer’s memory.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	cache - a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons) storage space - the area in any structure that provides space for storage
	2.	cache - a secret store of valuables or money hoard, stash fund, store, stock - a supply of something available for future use; "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars"
	3.	cache - (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics memory cache buffer storage, buffer store, buffer - (computer science) a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device; used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system disk cache - a cache that stores copies of frequently used disk sectors in random access memory (RAM) so they can be read without accessing the slower disk computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures
Verb	1.	cache - save up as for future use hive up, hoard, lay away, squirrel away, stash lay aside, save up, save - accumulate money for future use; "He saves half his salary"

cache

noun store, fund, supply, reserve, treasury, accumulation, stockpile, hoard, stash (informal) A cache of weapons and explosives was found by the police.

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cache

noun

A supply stored or hidden for future use:

backlog, hoard, inventory, nest egg, reserve, reservoir, stock, stockpile, store, treasure.

Slang: stash.

verb

To put or keep out of sight:

bury, conceal, ensconce, hide, occult, secrete.

Slang: plant, stash.

Translations

Cache

cache conserver maintenir réserve

nascondiglio

cache

[kæʃ]

A. N

1. (= stores) → víveres mpl escondidos; [of contraband, arms, explosives] → alijo m

2. (Comput) = cache memory

B. VT (= hide) → esconder, ocultar; (= hoard) → acumular

C. CPD cache memory N (Comput) → (memoria f) cache m or f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

cache

[ˈkæʃ] n

[arms, explosives] → cache f

a cache of food → un dépôt secret de provisionscache memory n (COMPUTING) → mémoire f tampon

cache

→ Versteck nt, → geheimes (Waffen-/Proviant)lager

(Comput: also cache memory) → Zwischenspeicher m, → Cachespeicher m

vt → verstecken

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

cache

[kæʃ] n (of arms, food) → deposito segreto

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References in classic literature

A cache is a term common among traders and hunters, to designate a hiding-place for provisions and effects.

Gloomy Council.-Exploring Parties- Discouraging Reports- Disastrous Experiment.- Detachments in Quest of Succor.- Caches, How Made.

Hunt now set to work with all diligence, to prepare caches, in which to deposit the baggage and merchandise, of which it would be necessary to disburden themselves, preparatory to their weary march by land: and here we shall give a brief description of those contrivances, so noted in the wilderness.

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"You recollect that big spruce that held up the corner of the cache next to the river?" Elijah began.

The added burden of the cache and the winter snow had been too much for it; the balance it had so long maintained with the forces of its environment had been overthrown; it had toppled and crashed to the ground, wrecking the cache and, in turn, overthrowing the balance with environment that the four men and eleven dogs had been maintaining.

"And in the morning we-all'll pull for the cache and pan snow to find what grub we've got." Daylight lay back, as he spoke, and rolled in his robe to sleep, then added: "Better turn in for an early start.

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"I wish we had just about two of them cartridges that's layin' in that cache of ourn," said the second man.

He would cross this divide to the first trickle of another stream, flowing to the west, which he would follow until it emptied into the river Dease, and here he would find a cache under an upturned canoe and piled over with many rocks.

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From a cache behind a hollow rotting log my companion brought out a variety of things,--a fifty-pound sack of flour, tinned foods of all sorts, cooking utensils, blankets, a canvas tarpaulin, books and writing material, a great bundle of letters, a five-gallon can of kerosene, an oil stove, and, last and most important, a large coil of stout rope.

And in but a short while he had carried all the articles from the cache and lowered them down to me.

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Plans for the winter Salmon River Abundance of salmon west of the mountains New arrangements Caches Cerre's detachment Movements in Fontenelle's camp Departure of the Blackfeet Their fortunes Wind Mountain streams Buckeye, the Delaware hunter, and the grizzly bear Bones of murdered travellers Visit to Pierre's Hole Traces of the battle Nez Perce Indians Arrival at Salmon River

He had more goods and supplies of various kinds, also, than were required for present purposes, or than could be conveniently transported on horseback; aided, therefore, by a few confidential men, he made caches, or secret pits, during the night, when all the rest of the camp were asleep, and in these deposited the superfluous effects, together with the wagons.

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