cache

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A hiding place used especially for storing provisions.
2. n. A place for concealment and safekeeping, as of valuables.
3. n. A store of goods or valuables concealed in a hiding place: maintained a cache of food in case of emergencies.
4. n. Computer Science A fast storage buffer in the central processing unit of a computer. Also called cache memory.
5. v. To hide or store in a cache. See Synonyms at hide¹.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A place of concealment, especially in the ground or under a cairn.
2. n. A store of provisions or other things deposited in such a place of concealment, for present convenience or for future use.
3. To conceal, generally by burying in the ground or under a cairn.
4. A Middle English form of catch.

Wiktionary

1. n. A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.
2. n. A fast temporary storage where recently- or frequently-used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
3. n. A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
4. v. To place in a cache.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A hole in the ground, or other hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry.
2. n. That which is hidden in a cache{2}; a hoard; a stockpile.
3. n. A form of memory in a computer which has a faster access time than most of main memory, and is usually used to store the most frequently accessed data in main memory during execution of a program.
4. v. To store in a cache{1}.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a secret store of valuables or money
2. n. (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
3. n. a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)
4. v. save up as for future use