Meaning of Cache | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
2. Such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons.
3. A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
4. A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.

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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.”

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