different between cache vs pile

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)

  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.

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pile

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa?l/
  • Rhymes: -a?l

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French pile, pille, from Latin p?la (pillar, pier).

Noun

pile (plural piles)

  1. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
  2. (figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
  3. A mass formed in layers.
  4. A funeral pile; a pyre.
  5. (slang) A large amount of money.
    Synonyms: bundle, (both informal) mint, (colloquial) small fortune
  6. A large building, or mass of buildings.
    • 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, II.2:
      The pile is of a gloomy and massive, rather than of an elegant, style of Gothic architecture []
    • 1697, John Dryden, The Aeneid
      The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight.
    • 1892, Thomas Hardy, The Well-Beloved
      It was dark when the four-wheeled cab wherein he had brought Avice from the station stood at the entrance to the pile of flats of which Pierston occupied one floor []
  7. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
  8. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
  9. (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground.
    Hyponyms: friction pile, bearing pile, end bearing pile
    Coordinate terms: pile driver, pile foundation
  10. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
  11. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
  12. (figuratively) A list or league
    • Watch Harlequins train and you get some idea of why they are back on top of the pile going into Saturday's rerun of last season's grand final against Leicester.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:lot
Translations

Verb

pile (third-person singular simple present piles, present participle piling, simple past and past participle piled)

  1. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
  2. (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
  3. (transitive) To add something to a great number.
  4. (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
  5. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
Synonyms
  • (lay or throw into a pile): heap, pile up; see also Thesaurus:pile up
Translations

Related terms

Etymology 2

From Old English p?l, from Latin p?lum (heavy javelin). Cognate with Dutch pijl, German Pfeil. Doublet of pilum.

Noun

pile (plural piles)

  1. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
  2. The head of an arrow or spear.
  3. A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
  4. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

pile (third-person singular simple present piles, present participle piling, simple past and past participle piled)

  1. (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
Translations

Etymology 3

Apparently from Late Latin pilus.

Noun

pile (plural piles)

  1. (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
Translations

Etymology 4

From Middle English pile, partly from Anglo-Norman pil (a variant of peil, poil (hair)) and partly from its source, Latin pilus (hair). Doublet of pilus.

Noun

pile (countable and uncountable, plural piles)

  1. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
  2. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
    • 1785, William Cowper, The Task
      Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile.
Translations

Verb

pile (third-person singular simple present piles, present participle piling, simple past and past participle piled)

  1. (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.

Anagrams

  • Lipe, Peil, Piel, plie, plié

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pi?l?/, [?p?i?l?]

Noun

pile c

  1. indefinite plural of pil

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin p?la (through Italian pila for the “battery” sense). The “tail of a coin” sense is probably derived from previous senses, but it's not known for sure.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pil/

Noun

pile f (plural piles)

  1. heap, stack
  2. pillar
  3. battery
  4. tails
  5. (heraldry) pile

Derived terms

  • pile ou face

Descendants

  • ? Haitian Creole: anpil
  • ? Khmer: ??? (p?l)
  • ? Malagasy: pila
  • ? Rade: pil
  • ? Turkish: pil
  • ? Vietnamese: pin

Adverb

pile

  1. (colloquial) just, exactly
  2. (colloquial) dead (of stopping etc.); on the dot, sharp (of time), smack

Derived terms

  • pile-poil

Further reading

  • “pile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • plie, plié

Friulian

Etymology 1

From Latin p?la (mortar).

Noun

pile f (plural pilis)

  1. basin
  2. mortar (vessel used to grind things)

Synonyms

  • (basin): vâs
  • (mortar): mortâr

Etymology 2

From Latin p?la (pillar).

Noun

pile f (plural pilis)

  1. pile (architecture)

Italian

Noun

pile m (invariable)

  1. fleece (all senses)

Noun

pile f

  1. plural of pila

Anagrams

  • peli

Latin

Noun

pile

  1. vocative singular of pilus

Latvian

Noun

pile f (5th declension)

  1. drip
  2. dribble (a small amount of a liquid)
  3. drop

Declension


Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?p?il?/, [?p?il?]

Noun

pile

  1. inflection of pi?a:
    1. dative/locative singular
    2. nominative/accusative dual

Middle English

Noun

pile

  1. Alternative form of pilwe

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?p?i.l?/

Noun

pile f

  1. dative/locative singular of pi?a

Portuguese

Verb

pile

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pil? (chick); but also a *piskl? is reconstructed related to *piskati (to utter shrilly).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pîle/
  • Hyphenation: pi?le

Noun

p?le n (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

  1. chick

Declension

See also

  • kokoš
  • pijevac / pevac
  • pile?i gulaš

Verb

pile (Cyrillic spelling ????)

  1. third-person plural present of piliti

Spanish

Verb

pile

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

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