cache

/kæʃ//kæʃ/

cache noun: such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons. Also the misspelling of cachet.

Noun

cache (plural caches)

Such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons.
- Near-synonym: stash
- 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.
Synonyms:

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

Synonyms:

geocache

Verb

cache (third-person singular simple present caches, present participle caching, simple past and past participle cached)

(transitive) To 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
(transitive) To 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
(intransitive) To participate in geocaching.
(transitive) To hide or seek a geocache.
to store up, stockpile

Also used as

cache is also the misspelling of cachet.

cache meaning in Marathi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

cache in Marathi

कॅशे, कॅशे करण्यासाठी

cache in Urdu

کیشے

cache in Bengali

ক্যাশে, ক্যাশে করতে, ক্যাশে করার জন্য

cache in Telugu

కాష్, కాష్ చెయ్యడానికి

More languagesFewer languages

cache in Malayalam: കാഷെ, കാഷെ ചെയ്യുക, കാഷെ ചെയ്യാൻ
cache in Kannada: ಕ್ಯಾಶೆ
cache in Punjabi: ਕੈਸ਼ ਕਰੋ, ਕੈਸ਼ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
cache in Gujarati: કેશ કરો
cache in Odia: କ୍ଯ଼ାଶେ, କ୍ଯ଼ାଶ, କ୍ଯ଼ାଶ କରନ୍ତୁ
cache in Nepali: क्याशे, क्यास, क्याश गर्नुहोस्
cache in Indonesian: singgahan, khazanah, tembolok
cache in Vietnamese: bộ nhớ đệm, vùng nhớ đệm

Examples of cache in a sentence

The bug was found to be caused by stale data in the cache.
The site expires cached pages that are older than 24 hours.
A dynamically tailorable mechanism is used for customizing caching policies in a processor system.

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Synonyms of cache

Forms of cache

Noun
plural	caches
Verb
third-person singular present	caches
present participle	caching
past participle	cached
past	cached

Past tense of cache: cached

Plural of cache: caches

Origin of cache

From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).

Words formed from cache

Phrases with cache

Words that rhyme with cache

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Questions about cache

What does cache mean?: Cache means such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons.
What is cache in Marathi?: Cache in Marathi is कॅशे, कॅशे करण्यासाठी. See Cache meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is cache?: Cache can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce cache?: Cache is pronounced /kæʃ/ (UK).
What is the plural of cache?: The plural of cache is caches.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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