CACHE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cache mean? 

• CACHE (noun)
  The noun CACHE has 3 senses:

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

2. a secret store of valuables or money

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

  Familiarity information: CACHE used as a noun is uncommon.

• CACHE (verb)
  The verb CACHE has 1 sense:

1. save up as for future use

  Familiarity information: CACHE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CACHE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cache" is a kind of...):

storage space (the area in any structure that provides space for storage)

Derivation:

cache (save up as for future use)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A secret store of valuables or money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

cache; hoard; stash

Hypernyms ("cache" is a kind of...):

fund; stock; store (a supply of something available for future use)

Derivation:

cache (save up as for future use)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cache; memory cache

Hypernyms ("cache" is a kind of...):

buffer; buffer storage; buffer store ((computer science) a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device; used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cache"):

disk cache (a cache that stores copies of frequently used disk sectors in random access memory (RAM) so they can be read without accessing the slower disk)

• CACHE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they cache    ... he / she / it caches   
Past simple: cached   
Past participle: cached   
-ing form: caching   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Save up as for future use

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

cache; hive up; hoard; lay away; squirrel away; stash

Hypernyms (to "cache" is one way to...):

lay aside; save; save up (accumulate money for future use)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They cache the money in the closet

Derivation:

cache (a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons))

cache (a secret store of valuables or money)

 Context examples 

He was more rational, and once more he was chiefly interested in the land of little sticks and the cache by the river Dease.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Here, where canoes were cached on poles high in the air and where stood fish-racks for the drying of fish, camp was made; and White Fang looked on with wondering eyes.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Designs vary widely but, in general, the CPU consists of the control unit, the arithmetic and logic unit (ALU) and memory (registers, cache, RAM and ROM) as well as various temporary buffers and other logic.

(Central Processing Unit of Computer Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

The site is known for its cache of delicate marine specimens from the Early Jurassic –- such as lobsters and vampire squids with their ink sacs still intact — preserved in slabs of black shale.

(Fossils may need air to form, National Science Foundation)

He roughly divided the gold in halves, caching one half on a prominent ledge, wrapped in a piece of blanket, and returning the other half to the sack.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He still clung to his gun, for there were cartridges in that cache by the river Dease.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I looked for his cache, but there was no grub in it.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He was not concerned with the land of little sticks, nor with Bill and the cache under the upturned canoe by the river Dease.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"I wish we had just about two of them cartridges that's layin' in that cache of ourn," said the second man.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

And he conned the grub of the cache and the grub of the Hudson Bay Company post over and over again.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)