a hiding place, especially one in the ground, for ammunition, food, treasures, etc.: She hid her jewelry in a little cache in the cellar.
anything so hidden: The enemy never found our cache of food.
Also called cache storage .Computers. a temporary storage space or memory that allows fast access to data: Web browser cache;CPU cache.
Alaskaand Northern Canada. a small shed elevated on poles above the reach of animals and used for storing food, equipment, etc.
verb (used with object),cached,cach·ing.
to put in a cache; conceal; hide.
Origin of cache
First recorded in 1585–95; from French, noun derivative of cacher “to hide,” from unattested Vulgar Latin coācticāre “to stow away,” originally, “to pack together,” frequentative of Latin coāctāre, equivalent to Latin coāct(us) “collected” (past participle of cōgere “to collect, compel”) + -icā- formative verb suffix + -re infinitive ending
For example, your web browser caches images and scripts of sites you visit so subsequent visits to the same page will load much faster.
Meet the Baconator|by Frank Sharpe|October 2, 2020|ProPublica
If someone who used the same computer after you in that temporary timeframe knew how to access a browser’s cache, and knew what to look for, it is possible they could have accessed the keys and tokens that you viewed.
Twitter warns developers that their private keys and account tokens may have been exposed|Zack Whittaker|September 25, 2020|TechCrunch
In the email, obtained by TechCrunch, the social media giant said that the private keys and tokens may have been improperly stored in the browser’s cache by mistake.
Twitter warns developers that their private keys and account tokens may have been exposed|Zack Whittaker|September 25, 2020|TechCrunch
Keep bears out of your food supplyOne of my favorite uses for 550 cord is when I need to suspend my food cache high in a tree.
This essential survival tool can save your life 10 different ways|By Tim MacWelch/Outdoor Life|September 15, 2020|Popular Science
It helps to be the WSJ, it carries cache with readers, journalists and the world, our ability to negotiate enhanced.
‘It’s less dire than it seemed to be’: How The Wall Street Journal’s digital ads business has weathered the downturn|Lucinda Southern|August 20, 2020|Digiday
Ultimately they would go ahead along with the Washington Post and publish a host of revelations from the Snowden cache.
Laura Poitras on Snowden's Unrevealed Secrets|Marlow Stern|December 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The first cache of photos landed online in late August, and celebs Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, and others were targeted.
'The Fappening 2': Amber Heard, Rihanna, and More Celebs Targeted in Latest Nude Hacking Spree|Marlow Stern|September 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Within the temple, they found a cache of treasure hoarded for centuries.
Iraq’s Long-Lost Mythical Temple Has Been Found…and Is In Danger of Disappearing Again|Nina Strochlic|July 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The weapons added to the cache used by the Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Uprising of April and May 1943.
The Week in Death: Irving Milchberg, the Teenage Gunrunner of the Warsaw Ghetto|The Telegraph|March 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As part of the cache of documents, Medsger received an F.B.I. routing slip with a mysterious word on it—COINTELPRO.
The FBI File Heist That Changed History|Bonnie Bertram, Drew Magratten|January 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Newhall's gone, however, either over to Cheyenne or out on the Cache la Poudre.
A Wounded Name|Charles King
He commonly remains on guard near his cache until he has acquired an appetite.
Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier|James Inglis
They are very destructive when they find a “cache” of this description.
Three Boys in the Wild North Land|Egerton Ryerson Young
Resetting short trap-lines, he waited for the "break-up" with tranquil mind, for his cache groaned with meat.
The Whelps of the Wolf|George Marsh
Then we'll have to reach our first cache before the grub runs out.
For the Allinson Honor|Harold Bindloss
British Dictionary definitions for cache
cache
/ (kæʃ) /
noun
a hidden store of provisions, weapons, treasure, etc
the place where such a store is hidden
computinga small high-speed memory that improves computer performance