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Cache vs Stache - What's the difference?

cache | stache |

As verbs the difference between cache and stache

is that cache is while stache is .

As an adjective cache

is hidden.

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.

    • Related terms

    * concealment * evader * evasion * evasion and recovery * recovery * recovery operations

    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

    • stache

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) Moustache, mustache.
  • * 2003 , (The New York Times) , "Don't Wanna Grow Up Cuz Puberty Isn't Funny", July 28, 2003:
    • Only one show has succeeded in keeping a kid in the lead for a decade: "The Simpsons" with the animated Bart Simpson. Watching Bart never mature is considered a key to its enduring appeal. "Early on, I know that the powers that be decided that no one would age," said Tim Long, the show's current head writer. "A kid with a starter ‘stache , that would just be unpleasant," he added.
  • * 2005 , (The New York Times) , "Democrats Still Searching for a Stronger Challenger", May 23, 2005:
    • [The candidate] may face an entirely different challenge in his quest for the mayoralty: his mustache. [...] The perils of the ‘stache may be hard to define, but analysts say that looks matter in politics, where facial hair is frequently considered verboten.

    Synonyms

    * tache, 'tache

    Anagrams

    * * * * *