Ache vs Cache - What's the difference?
ache | cache |
To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
* Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet , Act II, Scene V:
* , chapter=7
, title= (transitive, literary, rare) To cause someone or something to suffer pain.
Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
* Shakespeare, The Tempest , Act I, Scene II:
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A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.
(computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
(geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
To place in a cache.
(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
As a proper noun ache
is a language spoken by the yi people of south-western china.As a verb cache is
.As an adjective cache is
hidden.ache
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) due to the similarity in form and meaning of the two words.Verb
- Fie, how my bones ache!
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache , the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}
Derived terms
* ache forSee also
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- Fill all thy bones with aches .
Derived terms
* aches and pains * achy * backache * bellyache * earache * headache * stomachache * toothacheReferences
* Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition.Etymology 2
From (etyl) and modern (etyl) ache, from (etyl) .Etymology 3
Representing the pronunciation of the letter H .Anagrams
* English heteronyms ---- ==Jèrriais==Noun
Synonyms
* ----cache
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
