2 meanings
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1 —as in:
cache of arms
Definition
a storage space — often hidden to hold valuables, provisions or weapons; or the storing of things- We found a cache of weapons buried in the woods.
cache = a storage space — often hidden to hold valuables, provisions or weapons; or the storing of things
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- Fifty-pound sacks of flour were brought in from MacDonald's cache.London, Jack -- Burning Daylight
- What's in the cache, foodwise?Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
- To the left of the Prize Table Brinker straddled his cache of cider; behind him was the clump of evergreens, and behind them there was after all a gentle rise, where the Ski Jump Committee was pounding snow into a little take-off ramp whose lip was perhaps a foot higher than the slope of the rise.John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
- He goes to his cache, opens it, drinks some water.Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
- Then he opens up his cement-block cache, puts on his one-eyed sunglasses, drinks water from a stored beer bottle.Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
- He slides open the cache, fumbles blindly within it, retrieves the third of Scotch.Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
- After a long session of tossing, turning, and scratching, he climbs back down to seek out the Scotch bottle in his cache.Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
- From behind his concrete-slab cache he brings out one of his finds — an orange plastic pail, faded to pink but otherwise undamaged.Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
- Once the rain has slowed to a drizzle and the rumbles of thunder have receded, he slogs back to his cement-slab cache to collect the empty beer bottles.Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
cache = things of value stored in a hidden place
cache = store or supply
2 —as in:
memory cache
Definition
computer science: a section of computer memory used for fast, temporary storage- Did you try clearing your browser's cache? Sometimes a corrupt file is saved there and clearing it will assure the computer downloads a clean copy.
cache = computer science: a section of computer memory used for fast, temporary storage