cache

CEFRB2

/kæʃ/

noun · verb

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At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Also pronounced

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

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.
A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.

In context

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.
Near-synonym: stash
I came across a cache of old photos / And invitations to teenage parties

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I came across a cache of old photos / And invitations to teenage parties
1990, Chris Lowe, Neil Tennant, “Being Boring”, performed by Pet Shop Boys
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.
1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate
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.
2008, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Adrian Holovaty, The Definitive Guide to Django, Apress, →ISBN, page 203
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.
2014, Nils Bubandt, Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia

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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”).