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Cache   /kæʃ/  /kæʃˈeɪ/   Listen
Cache

noun
1.
A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
2.
A secret store of valuables or money.  Synonyms: hoard, stash.
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.  Synonym: memory cache.



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"Cache" Quotes from Famous Books



... the cabin, to get his belongings and to cache the whiskey. If it come into our friend's heads to rummage we might have a poor ...
— Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters • Henry Wallace Phillips

... toward noon on the following day when the four finally succeeded in locating the grub cache of the departed horse-thief. Nearly two years had passed since the man had described the place to Tex and a two-year-old description of a certain small, carefully concealed cavern in a rock-wall pitted with innumerable similar caverns is a mighty slender ...
— The Texan - A Story of the Cattle Country • James B. Hendryx

... take them all," he explained. "I know my limit, and sixty pounds is as much as I can carry along if I am to travel steadily, without too many rests. We shall have to cache a goodish bit." ...
— A Mating in the Wilds • Ottwell Binns

... he would follow it till its first trickle ceased at a divide. He would cross this divide to the first trickle of another stream, flowing to the west, which he would follow until it emptied into the river Dease, and here he would find a cache under an upturned canoe and piled over with many rocks. And in this cache would be ammunition for his empty gun, fish-hooks and lines, a small net—all the utilities for the killing and snaring of food. Also, he would find flour,—not much,—a ...
— Love of Life - and Other Stories • Jack London

... larceny, cache-robbin'—" just in time Teeters remembered that there were ladies present and curtailed his greeting to Hughie Disston. "Why didn't you let me know ...
— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart

... where I landed the shore was quite low. A forest of pale, scrubby ferns ran down almost to the beach. Here I dragged up the dugout, hiding it well within the vegetation, and with some loose rocks built a cairn upon the beach to mark my cache. Then I turned my steps toward the ...
— Pellucidar • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... resistance, but the officers easily seized him and, after a hasty but thorough search, unearthed his cache of the contraband drug. ...
— Constance Dunlap • Arthur B. Reeve

... hunter, who hid a lot of skins in a clearing close by Red River, at a place called 'Cache la Turlipe.' Are ...
— A Dream of Empire - Or, The House of Blennerhassett • William Henry Venable

... from only seven localities in Utah, which indicated that it occurred in only the western and southern areas of the state. Four additional records are now available from the following localities: Logan Canyon Cave, 15 miles north of Logan, Cache County; Weber College Campus, Ogden, Weber County; University of Utah Campus, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County; Six Mile Canyon, 3-1/2 miles east of Sterling, Sanpete County. These occurrences extend the known range to the eastward ...
— Additional Records and Extensions of Known Ranges of Mammals from Utah • Stephen D. Durrant



Words linked to "Cache" :   hive up, store, save up, computing, squirrel away, lay aside, computer science, fund, storage space, save, stock, buffer storage, buffer store, buffer



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