different between cache vs mass

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 1

In late Middle English (circa 1400) as masse in the sense of "lump, quantity of matter", from Anglo-Norman masse, in Old French attested from the 11th century, via late Latin massa (“lump, dough”), from Ancient Greek ???? (mâza, “barley-cake, lump (of dough)”). The Greek noun is derived from the verb ????? (máss?, “to knead”), ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European *ma?- (“to oil, knead”). Doublet of masa.The sense of "a large number or quantity" arises circa 1580. The scientific sense is from 1687 (as Latin massa) in the works of Isaac Newton, with the first English use (as mass) occurring in 1704.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæs/
• Rhymes: -æs

Noun

mass (countable and uncountable, plural masses)

1. (physical) Matter, material.
   1. A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size
   2. (obsolete) Precious metal, especially gold or silver.
   3. (physics) The quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume. It is one of four fundamental properties of matter. It is measured in kilograms in the SI system of measurement.
   4. (pharmacology) A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass.
   5. (medicine) A palpable or visible abnormal globular structure; a tumor.
   6. (bodybuilding) Excess body weight, especially in the form of muscle hypertrophy.
   7. (proscribed) Synonym of weight
2. A large quantity; a sum.
   1. Bulk; magnitude; body; size.
   2. The principal part; the main body.
   3. A large body of individuals, especially persons.

   4. (in the plural) The lower classes of persons.

Derived terms

Coordinate terms

(matter):

• weight

Translations

See also

• Customary units: slug, pound, ounce, long ton (1.12 short tons), short ton (commonly used)
• Metric units: gram (g), kilogram (kg), metric ton

Verb

mass (third-person singular simple present masses, present participle massing, simple past and past participle massed)

1. (transitive) To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble.
2. (intransitive) To have a certain mass.

Synonyms

• (to form into a mass): See also Thesaurus:assemble
• (to collect into a mass): See also Thesaurus:coalesce or Thesaurus:round up
• (to have a certain mass): weigh

Translations

Adjective

mass (not generally comparable, comparative masser, superlative massest)

1. Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.
2. Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.

Translations

Derived terms

• mass extinction

Etymology 2

From Middle English messe, masse, from Old English mæsse (“the mass, church festival”) and Old French messe, from Vulgar Latin *messa (“Eucharist, dismissal”), from Late Latin missa, noun use of feminine past participle of classical Latin mittere (“to send”), from ite, missa est (“go, (the assembly) is dismissed”), last words of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church. Compare Dutch mis (“mass”), German Messe (“mass”), Danish messe (“mass”), Swedish mässa (“mass; expo”), Icelandic messa (“mass”). More at mission.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??s
• (US) IPA^(key): /mæs/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /mæs/, /m??s/
• Rhymes: -æs

Noun

mass (plural masses)

1. (Christianity) The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
2. (Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.
3. (Christianity, usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
4. A musical setting of parts of the mass.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

mass (third-person singular simple present masses, present participle massing, simple past and past participle massed)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To celebrate mass.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     massing priests

Translations

Further reading

• mass in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• mass in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• ASMS, ASMs, MSAs, SAMs, SMAs, SMSA, Sams, sams

Võro

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *maksa, from Proto-Uralic *mëksa.

Noun

mass (genitive massa, partitive massa)

1. liver

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Related to Estonian maks.

Noun

mass (genitive massu, partitive massu)

1. tax, payment

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.