cache

See also: Cache, caché, and cachê

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, Australia) enPR: kăsh, kāsh, IPA(key): /kæʃ/, /keɪʃ/; (proscribed) /kæˈʃeɪ/, /ˈkæʃ.eɪ/
  • Audio (UK):(file)
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Audio (Canada):(file)
  • Audio (US, child voice):(file)
  • Rhymes: -æʃ
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃ
  • Homophones: cash, cachet (for the proscribed pronunciation)
  • (Australia) IPA(key): /kæɪʃ/
  • Audio (Australia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃ

Noun

cache (plural caches)

  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.
    1. Such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons.
      Hyponyms: bear cache, food cache
      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.
    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.
      Hyponyms: browser cache, template cache, webcache
    3. (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
      Synonym: geocache
Usage notes
  • Not to be confused with cachet.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Czech: keš
  • → Danish: cache
  • → Dutch: cache
  • → German: Cache
  • → Italian: cache
  • → Norwegian:
  • → Portuguese: cache
  • → Russian: кэш (kɛš)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: kȅš, ке̏ш
  • → Spanish: caché
Translations

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.
  3. (intransitive) To participate in geocaching.
  4. (transitive) To hide or seek a geocache.
  5. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) to store up, stockpile
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations

References

  • JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

Etymology 2

Noun

cache

  1. 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

Anagrams

Danish

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

  • cachehukommelse
  • cachememory

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English cache.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɛʃ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: cache
  • Rhymes: -ɛʃ
  • Homophone: cash

Noun

cache c (plural caches, no diminutive)

  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)
  2. cache, geocache
    Synonym: geocache
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • (1st and 2nd person singular, imperative)
    • IPA(key): /kɛʃ/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Hyphenation: cache
    • Rhymes: -ɛʃ
    • Homophone: cash
  • (subjunctive)
    • IPA(key): /ˈkɛ.ʃə/
    • Hyphenation: ca‧che
    • Rhymes: -ɛʃə
    • Homophone: cashe

Verb

cache

  1. inflection of cachen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative
    4. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive

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

  • IPA(key): [ˈkɑt͡ʃɪ]

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; ellipsis of memoria cache.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈkaʃ/*
    • Rhymes: -aʃ

    Adjective

    cache (invariable)

    1. (computing, relational) cache

    Noun

    cache f (invariable)

    1. (computing) cache

    Further reading

    • “cache”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

    Anagrams

    Norman

    Un cacheur d'od sen kien de cache.

    Etymology

    Middle French cache, from Northern Old French cache, deverbal of cachier.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /kɑ.ʃ/

    Noun

    cache m (plural caches)

    1. hunt, hunting
      cache à l'houme ― manhunt
      cache oû trésor ― treasure hunt
      cache ès œufs ― Easter egg hunt

    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

    Etymology

      Unadapted borrowing from English cache.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈkɛʂ/, /ˈkaʂ/
      • Audio:(file)
      • Rhymes: -ɛʂ, -aʂ
      • Syllabification: cache
      • Homophones: karz, kasz, każ

      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[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
      • “cache”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish)
      • cache in PWN's encyclopedia

      Portuguese

      Etymology 1

      Etymology tree
      French cache
      English cachebor.
      Portuguese cache

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

        Pronunciation

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

        • Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛʃi, (Brazil) -aʃi, (Portugal) -aʃɨ
        • Hyphenation: ca‧che

        Noun

        cache m or f (plural caches)

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

        Masculine in Brazil, feminine in Portugal.

        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

          Further reading

          Spanish

          Pronunciation

          • IPA(key): /ˈkat͡ʃe/ [ˈka.t͡ʃe]
          • 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.

            Further reading

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