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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)
2: a secret store of valuables or money [syn: hoard, cache, stash]
3: (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics [syn: cache, memory cache] v
1: save up as for future use [syn: hoard, stash, cache, lay away, hive up, squirrel away]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: French, from cacher to press, hide, from Vulgar Latin *coacticare to press together, from Latin coactare to compel, frequentative of cogere to compel — more at cogent Date: 1797 1. a. a hiding place especially for concealing and preserving provisions or implements b. a secure place of storage 2. something hidden or stored in a cache 3. a computer memory with very short access time used for storage of frequently or recently used instructions or data — called also cache memory II. transitive verb (cached; caching) Date: 1805 to place, hide, or store in a cache

U.S. Military Dictionary

A source of subsistence and supplies, typically containing items such as food, water, medical items, and/or communications equipment, packaged to prevent damage from exposure and hidden in isolated locations by such methods as burial, concealment, and/or submersion, to support isolated personnel. See also concealment; evader; evasion; recovery; recovery operations. (JP 3-50)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a hiding-place for treasure, provisions, ammunition, etc. 2 what is hidden in a cache. --v.tr. put in a cache. Etymology: F f. cacher to hide

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cache Cache, n. [F., a hiding place, fr. cacher to conceal, to hide.] A hole in the ground, or hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry. --Kane.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(caches) 1. A cache is a quantity of things such as weapons that have been hidden. A huge arms cache was discovered by police. ...a cache of weapons and explosives. = store N-COUNT: with supp 2. A cache or cache memory is an area of computer memory that is used for temporary storage of data and can be accessed more quickly than the main memory. (COMPUTING) In your Web browser's cache are the most recent Web files that you have downloaded. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

asylum, backlog, bank, bolt-hole, bosom, bottle up, bundle away, bury, coffer, conceal, concealment, corner, cover, covert, coverture, cranny, cubby, cubbyhole, dark corner, den, deposit, dugout, embosom, file, file and forget, foxhole, funk hole, hide, hide away, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hoard, hole, hutch, keep hidden, keep secret, lair, lay away, lay down, lay in, lay in store, lock up, lodge, nest egg, niche, nook, pack away, plant, put away, recess, refuge, reposit, repository, reserve, reserve fund, reserve supply, reserves, reservoir, resource, retreat, salt away, salt down, sanctuary, savings, seal up, secret place, secrete, sinking fund, something in reserve, squirrel away, stash, stockpile, store, store away, stow, stow away, stow down, supply, undercovert, unexpended balance, vault, warehouse