Cache - Wiktionary

See also: Cache, caché, and cachê

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:cacheWikipedia

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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• (UK) enPR: kăsh, IPA(key): /kæʃ/;
• (US, General Australian) enPR: kăsh, kāsh, IPA(key): /kæʃ/, /keɪʃ/; (proscribed) /kæˈʃeɪ/, /ˈkæʃ.eɪ/

• Audio (UK):

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• Audio (US):

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• Audio (Canada):

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• Audio (US, child voice):

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• Rhymes: -æʃ
• Rhymes: -eɪʃ
• Homophones: cash, cachet (for the proscribed pronunciation)
• (General Australian) IPA(key): /kæɪʃ/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃ

Noun

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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.
      • 1990, Chris Lowe, Neil Tennant, “Being Boring”, performed by Pet Shop Boys:I came across a cache of old photos / And invitations to teenage parties
   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

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• Not to be confused with cachet.

Derived terms

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• cacheability
• cacheable
• cache buster
• cache busting
• Cache County
• cache language model
• cacheless
• cache-oblivious
• cache stampede
• femtocache
• geocache
• multicache
• subcache
• Tête Jaune Cache
• uncache

Descendants

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• → Czech: keš
• → Danish: cache
• → German: Cache
• → Italian: cache
• → Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: cache
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: cache
• → Portuguese: cache
• → Russian: кэш (kɛš)
• → Serbo-Croatian: kȅš, ке̏ш
• → Spanish: caché

Translations

[edit] store

Bashkir: запас (zapas), һаҡлам (haqlam) Bulgarian: запас (bg) m (zapas) Estonian: peidik (et) Finnish: varasto (fi), kätkö (fi) (hidden store) Hebrew: מִצְבּוֹר m (mitsbór), מַחְבּוֹא (he) m (makhbó), מַאֲגָר (he) m (ma'agár) Italian: nascondiglio (it) m, ripostiglio (it) m Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Maori: whakaputunga Polish: schowek (pl) m inan Portuguese: esconderijo (pt) m Russian: запа́с (ru) m (zapás), тайни́к (ru) m (tajník) (hidden store), схрон (ru) m (sxron) (arms cache) Swedish: gömma (sv) c

computing: fast temporary storage for data

Afrikaans: cache sg Azerbaijani: keş Bashkir: кэш (keş) Bulgarian: кеш m (keš) Catalan: memòria cau f, cache m Chinese: Mandarin: 緩存 / 缓存 (zh) (huǎncún), 快取 (zh) (kuàiqǔ) (chiefly Taiwan) Czech: mezipaměť f, vyrovnávací paměť f Danish: cache c Esperanto: kaŝmemoro Estonian: vahemälu Finnish: välimuisti (fi) French: cache (fr) m, mémoire cache (fr) f German: Cache (de) m, Zwischenspeicher m Greek: κρυφή μνήμη (el) f (kryfí mními) Hebrew: מַטְמוֹן (he) m (matmón) Hungarian: gyorsítótár (hu), gyorstár, átmeneti tár, átmeneti tároló, gyorstároló Icelandic: skyndiminni (is) n Indonesian: singgahan (id), khazanah (id), tembolok (id) Italian: memoria cache f, cache (it) f Japanese: キャッシュ (ja) (kyasshu) Kapampangan: talasaglisikapan Korean: 캐시 (kaesi) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: podėlis m, talpykla f Maori: keteroki Norwegian: Bokmål: cache (no) m, hurtigminne n, mellomlager n Nynorsk: cache m, hurtigminne n, mellomlager n Polish: pamięć podręczna f, bufor (pl) m, cache (pl) m Portuguese: cache (pt) m, memória cache f Romanian: cache n du (technichal) Russian: кэш (ru) m (kɛš) Slovak: vyrovnávacia pamäť f, medzipamäť f Spanish: memoria caché f, caché (es) f Swedish: cacheminne (sv) n, cache (sv) c Turkish: önbellek (tr) Vietnamese: bộ nhớ đệm, vùng nhớ đệm

geocaching: hidden container

Finnish: kätkö (fi), geokätkö (fi) French: cache (fr) f German: Geocache m, Cache (de) m Norwegian: Bokmål: cache (no) m Nynorsk: cache m Swedish: gömma (sv) c, skattgömma (sv) c

Verb

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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

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• precache
• recache

Translations

[edit] to place in a cache

Bulgarian: склади́рам (bg) impf (skladíram) Finnish: varastoida (fi), piilottaa (fi), kätkeä (fi) Ido: cel-eyo Swedish: lagra (sv) (i cacheminne); gömma (sv), stoppa undan

to store data in a cache

Bulgarian: кеши́рам impf (kešíram) German: cachen (de) Hungarian: gyorsítótáraz Portuguese: armazenar em cache Spanish: cachear (es)

Related terms

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• coagulate
• cogent
• squat

References

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

Etymology 2

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Noun

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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

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• cache-sexe

Anagrams

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• Chace, chace

Danish

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Danish Wikipedia has an article on:cacheWikipedia da

Etymology

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From English cache.

Noun

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cache c (singular definite cachen, plural indefinite cacher)

1. (computing) cache

Declension

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commongender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	cache	cachen	cacher	cacherne
genitive	caches	cachens	cachers	cachernes

Synonyms

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• buffer
• cachehukommelse

Derived terms

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• cachehukommelse
• cachememory

Further reading

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• “cache” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /kaʃ/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

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cache f (plural caches)

1. cache, hiding place for later retrieval

Derived terms

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• cachette

Descendants

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

Noun

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cache m (plural caches)

1. cover, mask
2. (computing) cache

Verb

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cache

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

Further reading

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• “cache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

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Etymology 1

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Unknown. Compare gache.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): [ˈkɑt͡ʃɪ]

Interjection

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cache!

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

References

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• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cache”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cache”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cache”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

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Verb

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cache

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

German

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Verb

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cache

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

Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English cache.

Adjective

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cache (invariable)

1. (computing, relational) cache

Noun

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cache f (invariable)

1. (computing) cache

Further reading

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

Anagrams

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• acché

Norman

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /kɑ.ʃ/

Noun

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cache m (plural caches)

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

Verb

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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

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Etymology

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From English cache.

Noun

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

1. a cache (computing, geocaching)

References

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• “cache_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From English cache.

Noun

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

1. a cache (computing, geocaching)

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:pamięć podręcznaWikipedia pl

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English cache.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈkɛʂ/, /ˈkaʂ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛʂ, -aʂ
• Syllabification: cache
• Homophones: karz, kasz, każ

Noun

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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

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

Further reading

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

Portuguese

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Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

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

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈka.ʃɨ/

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

Noun

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cache m or f (plural caches)

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

Usage notes

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Masculine in Brazil, feminine in Portugal.

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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• (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈka.ʃi/

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

 

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈka.ʃɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈka.ʃɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈka.t͡ʃɨ/

• Hyphenation: ca‧che

Verb

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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

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• “cache”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “cache”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈkat͡ʃe/ [ˈka.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -atʃe
• Syllabification: ca‧che

Etymology 1

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Verb

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cache

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

Etymology 2

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Unadapted borrowing from English cache.

Noun

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cache m (plural caches)

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

Usage notes

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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.