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cached

cached is the simple past and past participle of cache.

Meaning of cache

Verb

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

  1. (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
  2. (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
  3. (intransitive) To participate in geocaching.
  4. (transitive) To hide or seek a geocache.
  5. to store up, stockpile

See all 8 meanings of cache

Words formed from cached

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Questions about cached

What is cached the simple past and past participle of?
Cached is the simple past and past participle of cache.

Words near cached in the dictionary

  1. cacheability
  2. cacheable
  3. cachectic
  4. cachectical
  5. cachectin
  6. cached
  7. cacheing
  8. Cachel
  9. cacheless
  10. Cachels
  11. cachemia

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