cache.
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.
Meaning & usage
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. Such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons.
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.
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. A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
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. A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
Where this word comes from
From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).
To place in a cache.
To store data in a cache.
To participate in geocaching.
To hide or seek a geocache.
to store up, stockpile
Where this word comes from
From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).
Misspelling of cachet.
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