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Cache vs Hideout - What's the difference?

cache | hideout |

As a verb cache

is .

As an adjective cache

is hidden.

As a noun hideout is

a place to hide.

cache

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.
  • 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.
  • (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.
  • References

    * JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

    Verb

    (cach)
  • 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
  • hideout

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A place to hide
  • They'll never find us in this makeshift hideout we've got in the woods

    See also

    * bunker * hideaway