cache
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) enPR: kăsh, IPA(key): /kæʃ/;
- (US, General Australian) enPR: kăsh, kāsh, IPA(key): /kæʃ/, /keɪʃ/; (proscribed) /kæˈʃeɪ/, /ˈkæʃ.eɪ/
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file) Audio (CA) (file) Audio (Child US) (file) - Rhymes: -æʃ
- Rhymes: -eɪʃ
- Homophones: cash, cachet (for the proscribed pronunciation)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /kæɪʃ/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃ
Noun edit
cache (plural caches)
- A store, protected or hidden in some way, of things that may be required in the future, such that they can be retrieved rapidly.
- Members of the 29-man Discovery team laid down food caches to allow the polar team to travel light, hopping from food cache to food cache on their return journey.
- (computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
- (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
Usage notes edit
Sometimes confused with cachet.
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References edit
- JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
Verb edit
cache (third-person singular simple present caches, present participle caching, simple past and past participle cached)
- (transitive) To place in a cache.
- 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
- 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.
- (transitive, computing) To store data in a cache.
- 2008, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Adrian Holovaty, The Definitive Guide to Django, Apress, →ISBN, page 203:
- 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.
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Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
cache (plural caches)
- Misspelling of cachet.
- 2014, Nils Bubandt, Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia[1]:
- The prophecies are an attempt to explore the mystery of democracy, to divine its origin in order to capitalize on its political cache, but also to diagnose the cause of its contemporary malaise.
See also edit
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
cache c (singular definite cachen, plural indefinite cacher)
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Further reading edit
- “cache” in Den Danske Ordbog
French edit
Etymology edit
From cacher. In the sense "cover, mask", a clipping of cache-œil, cache-nez, etc.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cache f (plural caches)
- cache, hiding place for later retrieval
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → English: cache (see there for further descendants)
Noun edit
cache m (plural caches)
Verb edit
cache
- inflection of cacher:
Further reading edit
- “cache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
Unknown. Compare gache.
Pronunciation edit
Interjection edit
cache!
References edit
- “cache” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cache” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cache” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
cache
- inflection of cachar:
German edit
Verb edit
cache
- inflection of cachen:
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
cache (invariable)
Noun edit
cache f (invariable)
Further reading edit
- cache in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams edit
Norman edit
Verb edit
cache
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
cache m (definite singular cachen, indefinite plural cacher, definite plural cachene)
- a cache (computing, geocaching)
References edit
- “cache_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
cache m (definite singular cachen, indefinite plural cachar, definite plural cachane)
- a cache (computing, geocaching)
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English cache.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /kɛʂ/, /kaʂ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛʂ, -aʂ
- Syllabification: cache
- Homophones: karz, kasz, każ
Noun edit
cache m inan
- (computing) cache (fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium)
- Synonym: pamięć podręczna
Declension edit
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from English cache, from French cache (“hiding place”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cache f (plural caches)
- (computing) cache (fast temporary storage for frequently used information)
- Synonym: memória cache
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ca‧che
Verb edit
cache
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
cache
- inflection of cachar:
Etymology 2 edit
Unadapted borrowing from English cache.
Noun edit
cache m (plural caches)
- Alternative form of caché (“temporary storage”)
Usage notes edit
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.