Meaning of Cache | Babel Free
kæʃDefinitions
- A store, protected and often hidden in some way, of things that may be required in the future, such that they can be retrieved rapidly.
- Such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons.
- 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.
Equivalents
Examples
“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.”
“I came across a cache of old photos / And invitations to teenage parties”
“The prophecies are an attempt⟳ to explore⟳ the mystery of democracy, to divine its origin in order⟳ to capitalize on its political cache, but also to diagnose the cause of its contemporary malaise.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
See also
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