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cache
English
Etymology 1
From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean "hiding place for stores"), from the verb cacher.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: k?sh, IPA(key): /kæ?/; (proscribed) /kæ??e?/, /?kæ?.e?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
- Homophones: cash, cachet (for the proscribed pronunciation)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /kæ??/
- Rhymes: -e??
Noun
cache (plural caches)
- A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.
- Members of the 29-man Discovery team laid down food caches to allow the polar team to travel light, hopping from food cache to food cache on their return journey.
- (computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
- (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
Usage notes
Sometimes confused with cachet.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- cacheability
- cacheable
- Cache County
Related terms
Descendants
Translations
References
- JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
Verb
cache (third-person singular simple present caches, present participle caching, simple past and past participle cached)
- To place in a cache.
- 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate
- 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
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
cache (plural caches)
- Misspelling of cachet.
Anagrams
- Chace, chace
Danish
Etymology
From French cache.
Noun
cache c (singular definite cachen, plural indefinite cacher)
- (computing) cache
Declension
Synonyms
- buffer
- cachehukommelse
Derived terms
- cachehukommelse
- cachememory
Further reading
- “cache” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From cacher.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka?/
Noun
cache f (plural caches)
- cache, hiding place for later retrieval
Derived terms
- cachette
Descendants
- ? Danish: cache
- ? English: cache (see there for further descendants)
Noun
cache m (plural caches)
- cover, mask (clipping of cache-oeil, cache-nez, etc.)
- (computing) cache
Verb
cache
- first-person singular present indicative of cacher
- third-person singular present indicative of cacher
- first-person singular present subjunctive of cacher
- third-person singular present subjunctive of cacher
- second-person singular imperative of cacher
Further reading
- “cache” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Etymology
Unknown. Compare gache.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?k?t???]
Interjection
cache!
- shoo! (said to pigs)
- Synonyms: gache, isca, xo
References
- “cache” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “cache” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cache” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Etymology
From English cache.
Adjective
cache f (invariable)
- (computing, relational) cache
Noun
cache f
- (computing) cache
Further reading
- cache in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norman
Verb
cache
- first-person singular present indicative of cachi
- third-person singular present indicative of cachi
- first-person singular present subjunctive of cachi
- third-person singular present subjunctive of cachi
- second-person singular imperative of cachi
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English cache
Noun
cache m (definite singular cachen, indefinite plural cacher, definite plural cachene)
- a cache (computing, geocaching)
References
- “cache_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English cache
Noun
cache m (definite singular cachen, indefinite plural cachar, definite plural cachane)
- a cache (computing, geocaching)
Portuguese
Verb
cache
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of cachar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of cachar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of cachar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of cachar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kat??e/, [?ka.t??e]
Verb
cache
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of cachar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of cachar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of cachar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of cachar.
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collection
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French collection, from Latin coll?cti?, coll?cti?nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??l?k??n/
- Rhymes: -?k??n
- Hyphenation: col?lec?tion
Noun
collection (countable and uncountable, plural collections)
- A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
- 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences
- collections of moisture
- 1887, Robert Bartholow, A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine
- a purulent collection
- 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences
- Multiple related objects associated as a group.
- The activity of collecting.
- (topology, mathematical analysis) A set of sets.
- A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
- (law) Debt collection.
- (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
- (Britain) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
- (in the plural, Britain, Oxford University) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
- The quality of being collected; calm composure.
Derived terms
Translations
French
Alternative forms
- c., coll. (abbreviations)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin coll?cti?, coll?cti?nem. Cf. also Old French quieuçon, which may be inherited from the same source, and the modern cueillaison, which was probably formed analogically.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?.l?k.sj??/
- Rhymes: -??
- Homophone: collections
- Hyphenation: col?lec?tion
Noun
collection f (plural collections)
- collection
Derived terms
- collec
- collectionner
- collectionneur
- collectionnite
Related terms
- collecte
- collecter
- cueillette
- cueillir
Further reading
- “collection” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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