EGAVE

cache

About 3.83 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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.
    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. noun Such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons.
    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.
  3. noun A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
  4. noun A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
  5. verb To place in a cache.
  6. verb To store data in a cache.
  7. verb To participate in geocaching.
  8. verb To hide or seek a geocache.

Similar words

hoard stash squirrel away hive up lay away memory cache storage reservoir store storehouse

Often followed by

of is and memory size line to in for

Word family

cache memory cached caches caching

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