Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A hiding place used especially for storing provisions.
- n. A place for concealment and safekeeping, as of valuables.
- n. A store of goods or valuables concealed in a hiding place: maintained a cache of food in case of emergencies.
- n. Computer Science A fast storage buffer in the central processing unit of a computer. Also called cache memory.
- v. To hide or store in a cache. See Synonyms at hide1.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A place of concealment, especially in the ground or under a cairn.
- n. A store of provisions or other things deposited in such a place of concealment, for present convenience or for future use.
- To conceal, generally by burying in the ground or under a cairn.
- A Middle English form of catch.
Wiktionary
- n. A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.
- n. computing A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
- n. geocaching A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
- v. To place in a cache.
- v. For the herb in a bowl to be entirely burnt to ashes and therefore having become empty, gone, or useless for further smoking
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A hole in the ground, or other hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry.
- n. That which is hidden in a cache{2}; a hoard; a stockpile.
- n. (Computers) 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.
- v. To store in a cache{1}.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a secret store of valuables or money
- 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
- n. a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)
- v. save up as for future use
Etymologies
- From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean "hiding place for stores"), from the verb cacher. (Wiktionary)
- French, from cacher, to hide, from Old French, to press, hide, from Vulgar Latin *coācticāre, to store, pack together, frequentative of Latin coāctāre, to constrain, from coāctus, past participle of cōgere, to force; see cogent. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Among the bigger changes, we've completed the overhaul of the Nickname cache article to document where to find the cache in Outlook 2010 and we've consolidated all of the MAPI Constants into a single article.”
“Disk Cache Buffer in main memory for disk sectors Contains a copy of some The term cache of the sectors memory is usually used to apply to a The term memory … cache that is memory smaller and … memory Disk I / O … that is smaller requests Disk cache Disk 18”
“This is because the user is still trying to use an en-us label cache which is now invalid because of the flush.”
“In the context of Web browsers, the cache is a block of temporary storage data comprised of information such as browsing history, pre-set e-mail account and private web site passwords.”
“IE: go to google and type in "cache:" where is the site you are trying to recover.”
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“March 2002 (11) 28: Tip: Getting IE 5 Mac to refresh after the cache is emptied (0) 28: Image rollovers with no JavaScript (0) 27: Dreamweaver Accessibility Add-0ns (0) 27: What is Section 508?”
““Free” has a certain cache of being “not worth the time and effort of a commercial game”.”
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“How are ye? '— and you say, ` Is that my good husband?' — and I say ` Yes, '— and you say, ` No can bake good bread, no more soda,' — then say, ` Look in cache, under flour; good-by. ”
“Once the cache is discovered, it is traditional for finders to choose a trinket from the box and to leave something behind.”
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“How are ye? '— and you say,' Is that my good husband? '— and I say' Yes, '— and you say,' No can bake good bread, no more soda, '— then say,' Look in cache, under flour; good-by. ”
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All squirrels, all the time.
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for cache.

bilby I hear it more often as kaysh. Oct 13, 2008
rolig This one-syllable word is pronounced exactly like the thing it often holds: CASH. It does not mean "prestige" or "distinction"; that's cachet (pronounced kæ-SHAY). Oct 12, 2008