cache

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

• (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

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

• Not to be confused with cachet.

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

• → Dutch: cachen

• coagulate
• cogent
• squat

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

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.

• cache-sexe

• Chace, chace

From English cache.

cache c (singular definite cachen, plural indefinite cacher)

1. (computing) cache

• buffer
• cachehukommelse

• cachehukommelse
• cachememory

• “cache” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from English cache.

• IPA^(key): /kɛʃ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: cache
• Rhymes: -ɛʃ
• Homophone: cash

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (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

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

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

• 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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cache f (plural caches)

1. cache, hiding place for later retrieval

• cachette

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

cache m (plural caches)

1. cover, mask
2. (computing) cache

cache

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

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

Unknown. Compare gache.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɑt͡ʃɪ]

cache!

1. shoo! (said to pigs)

   Synonyms: gache, isca, xo

• 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

cache

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

cache

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

Borrowed from English cache.

cache (invariable)

1. (computing, relational) cache

cache f (invariable)

1. (computing) cache

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

• acché

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

• IPA^(key): /kɑ.ʃ/

cache m (plural caches)

1. hunt, hunting

   cache à l'houme ― manhunt

   cache oû trésor ― treasure hunt

   cache ès œufs ― Easter egg hunt

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

From English cache.

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

1. a cache (computing, geocaching)

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

From English cache.

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

1. a cache (computing, geocaching)

Unadapted borrowing from English cache.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛʂ/, /ˈkaʂ/

• Audio:

  (file)

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

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

• “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

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

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

cache m or f (plural caches)

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

   Synonym: memória cache

Masculine in Brazil, feminine in Portugal.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: ca‧che

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

• “cache”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cache”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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

cache

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

Unadapted borrowing from English cache.

cache m (plural caches)

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

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.