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.

      Near-synonym: stash

      2 more examples

      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.

      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

      Synonyms: stash

   2. computingA fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
   3. A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.

      Synonyms: geocache

present singular third person caches · participle present caching · participle past cached · past cached

1. transitiveTo place in a cache.

   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

2. transitivecomputingTo store data in a cache.

   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

3. intransitiveTo participate in geocaching.
4. transitiveTo hide or seek a geocache.
5. to store up, stockpile

1. misspellingMisspelling of cachet.

   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