cache — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

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.

   Synonyme

   stash

   Beispiele

   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.

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   I came across a cache of old photos / And invitations to teenage parties

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

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

   Synonyme

   geocache

Verb

1. To place in a cache.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

   Beispiele

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   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. To store data in a cache.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

   Beispiele

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   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.

3. To participate in geocaching.

   Gebrauch

   • intransitiv

4. To hide or seek a geocache.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

5. to store up, stockpile

Substantiv

1. a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)

   Oberbegriffe

   storage space

2. a secret store of valuables or money

   Synonyme

   hoardstash

   Oberbegriffe

   storestockfund

3. (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

   Synonyme

   memory cache

   Oberbegriffe

   bufferbuffer storagebuffer store

Verb

1. save up as for future use

   Synonyme

   hoardstashlay awayhive upsquirrel away

   Oberbegriffe

   savelay asidesave up