cache
English
Etymology 1
From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).
Pronunciation
- (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
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
Sometimes confused with cachet.
Hyponyms
- browser cache
- template cache
- webcache
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
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References
- JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
Verb
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.
Translations
See also
Danish
Declension
Synonyms
- buffer
- cachehukommelse
Derived terms
- cachehukommelse
- cachememory
Further reading
- “cache” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaʃ/
Audio (Paris) (file) Audio (file)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → English: cache (see there for further descendants)
Verb
cache
- inflection of cacher:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “cache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
Etymology 1
Unknown. Compare gache.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkɑt͡ʃɪ]
References
- “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.
Verb
cache
- inflection of cachar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
German
Verb
cache
- inflection of cachen:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Italian
Further reading
- cache in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Norman
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
cache m (definite singular cachen, indefinite plural cacher, definite plural cachene)
- a cache (computing, geocaching)
References
- “cache_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Polish
Pronunciation
Noun
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
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkɛ.ʃi/, /ˈka.ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkɛ.ʃe/, /ˈka.ʃe/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈka.ʃɨ/
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛʃi, (Brazil) -aʃi, (Portugal) -aʃɨ
- Hyphenation: ca‧che
Noun
cache f (plural caches)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈka.ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈka.ʃe/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈka.ʃɨ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈka.t͡ʃɨ/
- Hyphenation: ca‧che
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkat͡ʃe/ [ˈka.t͡ʃe]
- Rhymes: -atʃe
- Syllabification: ca‧che
Verb
cache
- inflection of cachar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Usage notes
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.