different between cache vs generic

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)

1. 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.

2. (computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
3. (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)

1. 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.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

cache (plural caches)

1. Misspelling of cachet.

Anagrams

• Chace, chace

Danish

Etymology

From French cache.

Noun

cache c (singular definite cachen, plural indefinite cacher)

1. (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)

1. cache, hiding place for later retrieval

Derived terms

• cachette

Descendants

• ? Danish: cache
• ? English: cache (see there for further descendants)

Noun

cache m (plural caches)

1. cover, mask (clipping of cache-oeil, cache-nez, etc.)
2. (computing) cache

Verb

cache

1. first-person singular present indicative of cacher
2. third-person singular present indicative of cacher
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cacher
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cacher
5. 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!

1. 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)

1. (computing, relational) cache

Noun

cache f

1. (computing) cache

Further reading

• cache in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norman

Verb

cache

1. first-person singular present indicative of cachi
2. third-person singular present indicative of cachi
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cachi
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cachi
5. second-person singular imperative of cachi

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English cache

Noun

cache m (definite singular cachen, indefinite plural cacher, definite plural cachene)

1. 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)

1. a cache (computing, geocaching)

Portuguese

Verb

cache

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of cachar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of cachar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of cachar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of cachar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kat??e/, [?ka.t??e]

Verb

cache

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of cachar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of cachar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of cachar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of cachar.

English

Alternative forms

• generick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French générique, from Latin genus (“genus, kind”) + -ic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d???n???k/
• Hyphenation: gen?er?ic
• Rhymes: -?r?k

Adjective

generic (comparative more generic, superlative most generic)

1. very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups (genera) as opposed to specific instances.
   • 1864, Walter Bagehot, "Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque Art in English Poetry", in The National Review Volume 19

     […] the essence is that such self-describing poets describe what is in them, but not peculiar to them, – what is generic, not what is special and individual.

2. lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise
3. (of a product or drug) not having a brand name; nonproprietary in design or contents
4. (taxonomy) pertaining to a taxon at the rank of genus
5. relating to gender
6. (grammar) specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene

   Words like salesperson and firefighter are generic.

7. (computing, of procedures) written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter
8. (geometry, of a point) having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field

Synonyms

• (comprehensive): broad, general, classic; see also Thesaurus:generic
• (lacking in precision): fuzzy, indefinite; see also Thesaurus:vague
• (lacking a brand): unbranded

Antonyms

• (comprehensive): specific, particular, concrete; see also Thesaurus:specific
• (lacking a brand): non-generic, proprietary, branded
• (neither masculine nor feminine): gendered

Derived terms

• genericity
• genericness
• generic you

Translations

Noun

generic (plural generics)

1. A product sold under a generic name.
2. A wine that is a blend of several wines, or made from a blend of several grape varieties.
3. (grammar) A term that specifies neither male nor female.

Translations

Related terms

• gender
• genus

Anagrams

• energic

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French générique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?e?ne.rik/

Adjective

generic m or n (feminine singular generic?, masculine plural generici, feminine and neuter plural generice)

1. generic

Declension

Noun

generic n (plural generice)

1. (television, film) credits, titles

Declension