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cache

  [kash] noun, verb, cached, cach⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a hiding place, esp. one in the ground, for ammunition, food, treasures, etc.: She hid her jewelry in a little cache in the cellar.
2. anything so hidden: The enemy never found our cache of food.
3. Alaska and Northern Canada. a small shed elevated on poles above the reach of animals and used for storing food, equipment, etc.
–verb (used with object)
4. to put in a cache; conceal; hide.
Origin:
1585–95; < F, n. deriv. of cacher to hide < VL *coācticāre to stow away, orig. to pack together, equiv. to L coāct(us) collected (ptp. of cōgere; see coactive ) + -icā- formative v. suffix + -re inf. ending

Synonyms:
2. hoard, stockpile, reserve, store. 4. secrete.
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cache   (kāsh)   
n.  

    1. A hiding place used especially for storing provisions.

    2. A place for concealment and safekeeping, as of valuables.

    3. A store of goods or valuables concealed in a hiding place: maintained a cache of food in case of emergencies.

  2. Computer Science A fast storage buffer in the central processing unit of a computer. Also called cache memory.

tr.v.   cached, cach·ing, cach·es
To hide or store in a cache. See Synonyms at hide1.

[French, from cacher, to hide, from Old French, to press, hide, from Vulgar Latin *coācticāre, to store, pack together, frequentative of Latin coāctāre, to constrain, from coāctus, past participle of cōgere, to force; see cogent.]
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Word Origin & History

cache 
1797, from Fr. Canadian trappers' slang, "hiding place for stores" (c.1669), from Fr. cacher "conceal," from V.L. *coacticare "store up, collect, compress," from L. coactare "constrain," from coactus pp. of cogere "to collect" (see cogent).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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