as in stashing
the placing of something out of sight
the caching of holiday gifts in the weeks before Christmas
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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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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
Ben Sin, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
Matt Robinson is the Deputy Delivery Manager for the Sample Caching System on the Mars 2020 rover, which covers the robotic arm itself, the drill at the end of the arm, and the sample caching system within the body of the rover that manages the samples.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 July 2019
In the nineteen-eighties, scientists found that food-caching species have larger hippocampi than other species.
—Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2024
The feats of chickadees and other food-caching birds are especially impressive because they are accomplished through cognition, Dmitriy Aronov, a neuroscientist at Columbia University, told me.
—Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2024
His most recent post included a workout video of caching footballs at a training facility.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
Utilizing browser caching and content delivery networks or CDNs can greatly enhance site performance.
—Nick Damoulakis, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
As a result of caching, chunks are more dispersed and, therefore, more widely available and faster to retrieve.
—Viktor Trón, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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For gaming, the new M4 iPad offers dynamic caching and real-time ray tracing, so graphics in graphically intensive games will look better, and run at a higher frame rate.
—Ben Sin, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
Matt Robinson is the Deputy Delivery Manager for the Sample Caching System on the Mars 2020 rover, which covers the robotic arm itself, the drill at the end of the arm, and the sample caching system within the body of the rover that manages the samples.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 July 2019
In the nineteen-eighties, scientists found that food-caching species have larger hippocampi than other species.
—Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2024
The feats of chickadees and other food-caching birds are especially impressive because they are accomplished through cognition, Dmitriy Aronov, a neuroscientist at Columbia University, told me.
—Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2024
His most recent post included a workout video of caching footballs at a training facility.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
Utilizing browser caching and content delivery networks or CDNs can greatly enhance site performance.
—Nick Damoulakis, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
As a result of caching, chunks are more dispersed and, therefore, more widely available and faster to retrieve.
—Viktor Trón, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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“Caching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caching. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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