Meaning

3 senses
  1. 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.

    Near-synonym: stash

    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.

    запа́сzapás, тайни́кtajník, схронsxron

  2. A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.

    Cache, Zwischenspeicher

    кэшkɛš

  3. A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.

    Geocache, Cache

More definitions
  • a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)
  • (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
  • a secret store of valuables or money

Examples

9 sentences
  1. Have you tried clearing your browser's cache?

    ruТы пытался очистить кэш браузера? — marafon

  2. Please clear your browser cache and try again.

  3. They'll find your cigarette cache, and then you'll have problems.

    deSie werden dein Zigarettenversteck finden, und dann hast du Probleme. — Yorwba

  4. Try clearing your cache.

    ruПопробуй почистить кэш. — Wezel · CC BY 2.0 FR

    deVersuch mal, deinen Cache zu leeren. — Yorwba · CC BY 2.0 FR

  5. I found a cache of my grandmother's recipes stuffed away in the back of a drawer.

    ruЯ нашел тайник бабушкиных рецептов, спрятанных за выдвижным ящиком. — kukla

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
store:
computing: fast temporary storage for data:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
computing: fast temporary storage for data:
geocaching: hidden container:

Origin

From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”),

From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).

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Forms

plural: caches
Singularcache
Pluralcaches

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • (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
  • a secret store of valuables or money:hoardstash

Word family

12 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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