different between cache vs heap

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

Etymology

From Middle English heep, from Old English h?ap, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (compare Dutch hoop, German Low German Hupen, German Haufen), from Proto-Indo-European *koupos (“hill”) (compare Lithuanian ka?pas, Albanian qipi (“stack”), Avestan ????????????????? (kåfa)).

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?p, IPA^(key): /hi?p/
• ((Ireland), dated) enPR: h?p, IPA^(key): /he?p/
• Rhymes: -i?p

Noun

heap (plural heaps)

1. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching an Holy War

     a heap of vassals and slaves

   • 1876, Anthony Trollope, s:Doctor Thorne

     He had plenty of friends, heaps of friends in the parliamentary sense

2. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.

   • Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.
3. A great number or large quantity of things.
   • 1679, Gilbert Burnet, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England

     a vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations

   • 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, s:Will o' the Mill

     I have noticed a heap of things in my life.

4. (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
5. (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.

6. (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
   • 1991 May 12, "Kidnapped!" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:

     Chuffy: It's on a knife edge at the moment, Bertie. If he can get planning permission, old Stoker's going to take this heap off my hands in return for vast amounts of oof.

7. (colloquial) A lot, a large amount

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:lot

Hyponyms

• compost heap

Derived terms

• heapful
• heapmeal
• it takes a heap of living to make a house a home

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: ipi

Translations

Verb

heap (third-person singular simple present heaps, present participle heaping, simple past and past participle heaped)

1. (transitive) To pile in a heap.

2. (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act I, scene II, verses 40-42

     Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring
     News of that vanished Arabian,
     A full-heap’d helmet of the purest gold.

3. (transitive) To supply in great quantity.

Synonyms

• (pile in a heap): amass, heap up, pile up; see also Thesaurus:pile up

Derived terms

• heap coals of fire on someone's head
• heaped (adj), heaping (adj)
• heap up
• overheap

Translations

Adverb

heap (not comparable)

1. (offensive, representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans) Very.
   • 1980, Joey Lee Dillard, Perspectives on American English (page 417)

     We are all familiar with the stereotyped broken English which writers of Western stories, comic strips, and similar literature put into the mouths of Indians: 'me heap big chief', 'you like um fire water', and so forth.

   • 2004, John Robert Colombo, The Penguin Book of Canadian Jokes (page 175)

     Once upon a time, a Scotsman, an Englishman, and an Irishman are captured by the Red Indians […] He approaches the Englishman, pinches the skin of his upper arm, and says, "Hmmm, heap good skin, nice and thick.

Anagrams

• HAPE, HEPA, epha, hep A

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz.

Cognate with Old Frisian h?p, Old Saxon h?p, Old High German houf. Old Norse hópr differs from the expected form *haupr because it is a borrowing from Middle Low German.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xæ???p/, [hæ???p]

Noun

h?ap m

1. group
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Paul the Apostle"

2. heap

Declension

Derived terms

• h?apm?lum

Descendants

• Middle English: heep
  • English: heap

Portuguese

Etymology

From English heap

Noun

heap m or f (in variation) (plural heaps)

1. (computing) heap (tree-based data structure)

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian h?p, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (“heap”).

Noun

heap c (plural heapen or heappen, diminutive heapke)

1. heap, pile
2. mass, gang, horde

Further reading

• “heap”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011