Cache vs Nursery - What's the difference?
cache | nursery |
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
(lb) The act of nursing.
* 1606 , (William Shakespeare), King Lear , sc.1:
(lb) A place where nursing is carried on.
# A room or area in a household set apart for the care of children; specifically in European countries.
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# A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are cultivated for transplanting; a plantation of young trees.
# The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
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#* John Mitchell Mason, (1770-1829)
# A nursery school.
That which forms and educates.
(lb) That which is nursed.
As a verb cache
is .As an adjective cache
is hidden.As a noun nursery is
(lb) the act of nursing.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.
References
* JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated TermsVerb
(cach)nursery
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(nurseries)- I loved her most, and thought to set my rest / On her kind nursery .
- But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.
- Fair Padua, nursery of arts.
- Christian families are the nurseries' of the church on earth, as she is the ' nursery of the church in heaven.