CACHE
Dictionary entry overview: What does cache mean?
• CACHE (noun)
The noun CACHE has 3 senses:
1. a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)
2. a secret store of valuables or money
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
Familiarity information: CACHE used as a noun is uncommon.
• CACHE (verb)
The verb CACHE has 1 sense:
1. save up as for future use
Familiarity information: CACHE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CACHE (noun)
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)
Meaning:
A secret store of valuables or money
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
hoard; stash; cache
Hypernyms ("cache" is a kind of...):
fund; stock; store (a supply of something available for future use)
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
memory cache; cache
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)
• CACHE (verb)
Meaning:
Save up as for future use
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
squirrel away; lay away; hoard; hive up; cache; stash
Hypernyms (to "cache" is one way to...):
lay aside; save; save up (feather one's nest; have a nest egg)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They cache the money in the closet
