caching 1 of 2

noun

as in stashing
the placing of something out of sight the caching of holiday gifts in the weeks before Christmas

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caching

2 of 2

verb

present participle of cache
1
as in storing
to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place an eccentric who cached money in odd places, such as under the boards of the floor

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2
as in concealing
to put into a hiding place cached the fugitives in their cellar until they could make their way to Canada

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Recent Examples of caching
Noun
Squirrels, other rodents and a variety of birds typically do the caching, storing the acorns to be eaten later when conditions soften the outer shell. — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
Storage, caching, vector pipelines, and high-throughput data paths matter because context and retrieval are now foundational to how AI applications and agents operate. — Harsha Kotikela, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 Super frugal use of memory bandwidth, caching exactly what is needed & squeezing microseconds out of everything are needed to maintain the frame rate. — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 2 June 2026 Last week’s CopyFail exploited faulty page caching in the authencesn AEAD template process, which is used for IPsec extended sequence numbers. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 11 May 2026 Why Squirrels Are Attracted to Bulbs Squirrels are food-caching animals, meaning their strategy is to find and store high-calorie foods to sustain them through winter. — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 20 Apr. 2026 Performance is handled through LiteSpeed servers with built-in caching and optimization. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026 Multiple programs and projects face the axe, including the Mars Sample Return Mission, which is currently underway, with the Perseverance rover caching rock and soil samples that a later spacecraft would fly to Mars and collect. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 Nov. 2025 The new chip has a second-generation caching architecture that helps to double its ability to do math, the company said. — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caching
  1. stashing
  2. storing
  3. concealing
  4. hiding
  5. hoarding
  6. burying
  7. secretion
  8. concealment
Noun
  • Researchers believe some kind of ritual marked this massive deposit, as the feasting and decorative objects might correspond to an event that might have propelled the stashing away of these astonishing artifacts, as per Heritage Daily.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The Rams have 10 picks in this year’s draft, and that’s too many for any team, but especially one that has been drafting and stashing players after the first round for a few years.
    — Nate Atkins, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
Definition of stashing
Verb
  • New York is one of the few states in the country which require non-transplant tissue banks and those distributing, processing, storing or collecting human tissue to hold a license.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 13 July 2026
  • Instead of repeatedly storing intermediate data in memory before sending it to the next processor, the system transmitted feature maps directly through the optical network.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
Definition of storing
Verb
  • According to police, Black entered the store wearing a ski mask and concealing a short barrel AR-style rifle under his clothing, then accused Johnson of stepping on his shoe.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 9 July 2026
  • She was found not guilty of concealing an individual to prevent arrest, a misdemeanor.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
Definition of concealing
Noun
  • Skripal and his daughter are reportedly in hiding, living under new identities to protect their safety.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
  • Insecticidal dust, like that containing diatomaceous earth or boric acid, can be applied in cracks, crevices, and other hiding spots.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 July 2026
Definition of hiding
Verb
  • Fortunately, some companies are realizing that hoarding data is actually harming their growth.
    — Raj Ananthanpillai, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • Communism is a system of government in which the ruling party controls major investment decisions while hoarding wealth for itself and suppressing all opposition.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
Definition of hoarding
Verb
  • Advertisement In the midst of the tit-for-tat strikes, Iran is burying the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday, in the holy city of Mashhad, after days of public mourning ceremonies.
    — Callum Sutherland, Time, 9 July 2026
  • The aggrieved front-line workers also include safety and security teams, those that often embark on community outreach as well as those burying patients who died from Ebola.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
Definition of burying
Noun
  • The virus is shed in wild bird saliva, nasal secretions and feces, so even droppings near the coop can carry it.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026
  • Backyard flocks usually contract bird flu through direct contact with infected wild birds, such as migratory ducks and geese, or indirectly through environments contaminated by wild bird saliva, nasal secretions and droppings.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
Definition of secretion
Noun
  • Camouflage, concealment, and deception Protecting missile infrastructure also depends on preventing an adversary from developing an accurate target list.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 14 July 2026
  • De Hooch’s picture is a puzzle box—an ingenious construction of openings and closings, insides and outsides, revelation and concealment.
    — Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 11 July 2026
Definition of concealment

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