Library / English Dictionary

CACHE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cache" is a kind of...):

storage space (the area in any structure that provides space for storage)

Derivation:

cache (save up as for future use)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(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

Synonyms:

cache; memory cache

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cache" is a kind of...):

buffer; buffer storage; buffer store ((computer science) a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device; used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cache"):

disk cache (a cache that stores copies of frequently used disk sectors in random access memory (RAM) so they can be read without accessing the slower disk)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A secret store of valuables or money

Synonyms:

cache; hoard; stash

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("cache" is a kind of...):

fund; stock; store (a supply of something available for future use)

Derivation:

cache (save up as for future use)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Save up as for future use

Synonyms:

cache; hive up; hoard; lay away; squirrel away; stash

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "cache" is one way to...):

lay aside; save; save up (accumulate money for future use)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They cache the money in the closet

Derivation:

cache (a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons))

cache (a secret store of valuables or money)

Credits

 Context examples: 

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.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

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.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But hard as he strove with his body, he strove equally hard with his mind, trying to think that Bill had not deserted him, that Bill would surely wait for him at the cache.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)