cache | |
1. n. 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. n. (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. n. (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game. | |
4. v. To place in a cache. | |
5. v. (marijuana smoking) For the herb in a bowl to be entirely burnt to ashes and therefore having become empty, gone, or useless for further smoking. | |
6. n. misspelling of cachet | |