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See also: Cache, caché, and cachê

English

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Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

Noun

cache (plural caches)

  1. 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.
  2. (computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
  3. (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
Usage notes

Sometimes confused with cachet.

Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Czech: keš
  • → Danish: cache
  • → German: Cache
  • → Italian: cache
  • → Norwegian:
  • → Portuguese: cache
  • → Russian: кэш (kɛš)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: kȅš, ке̏ш
  • → Spanish: caché
Translations
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)

  1. (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.
  2. (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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Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

cache (plural caches)

  1. Misspelling of cachet.
    • 2014, Nils Bubandt, Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia‎:
      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.

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Anagrams

Danish

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Etymology

From English cache.

Noun

cache c (singular definite cachen, plural indefinite cacher)

  1. (computing) cache

Declension

Declension of cache
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative cache cachen cacher cacherne
genitive caches cachens cachers cachernes

Synonyms

Derived terms

Further reading

French

Etymology

From cacher. In the sense "cover, mask", a clipping of cache-œil, cache-nez, etc.

Pronunciation

Noun

cache f (plural caches)

  1. cache, hiding place for later retrieval

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → English: cache (see there for further descendants)

Noun

cache m (plural caches)

  1. cover, mask
  2. (computing) cache

Verb

cache

  1. inflection of cacher:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Galician

Etymology 1

Unknown. Compare gache.

Pronunciation

Interjection

cache!

  1. shoo! (said to pigs)
    Synonyms: gache, isca, xo

References

Etymology 2

Verb

cache

  1. inflection of cachar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

German

Verb

cache

  1. inflection of cachen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English cache.

Adjective

cache (invariable)

  1. (computing, relational) cache

Noun

cache f (invariable)

  1. (computing) cache

Further reading

  • cache in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Norman

Verb

cache

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cachi
  2. third-person singular present indicative of cachi
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cachi
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cachi
  5. second-person singular imperative of cachi

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English cache.

Noun

cache m (definite singular cachen, indefinite plural cacher, definite plural cachene)

  1. a cache (computing, geocaching)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English cache.

Noun

cache m (definite singular cachen, indefinite plural cachar, definite plural cachane)

  1. a cache (computing, geocaching)

Polish

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cache.

Pronunciation

Noun

cache m inan

  1. (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

Declension of cache
singular
nominative cache
genitive cache'u
dative cache'owi
accusative cache
instrumental cache'em
locative cache'u
vocative cache'u

Further reading

  • cache in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • cache in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • cache in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English cache, from French cache (“hiding place”).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkɛ.ʃi/, /ˈka.ʃi/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkɛ.ʃe/, /ˈka.ʃe/

Noun

cache f (plural caches)

  1. (computing) cache (fast temporary storage for frequently used information)
    Synonym: memória cache

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: ca‧che

Verb

cache

  1. inflection of cachar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
  2. inflection of cachir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkat͡ʃe/
  • Rhymes: -atʃe
  • Syllabification: ca‧che

Etymology 1

Verb

cache

  1. inflection of cachar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Etymology 2

Unadapted borrowing from English cache.

Noun

cache m (plural caches)

  1. Alternative form of caché (“temporary storage”)
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.

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