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Cached vs Cacked - What's the difference?

cached | cacked |

As verbs the difference between cached and cacked

is that cached is (cache) while cacked is (cack).

As an adjective cached

is having been cached.

cached

English

Verb

(head)
  • (cache)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • Having been cached.

    • 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

    • cacked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cack)

    • cack

    English

    Etymology 1

    Onomatopoeia.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A squawk.
  • * 1916 , Frank Michler Chapman, Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America , page 493,
    • for on occasions he gives utterance to an entirely uncharacteristic series of cacking'' notes, and even mounts high in the tree to sing a hesitating medley of the same unmusical ''cacks , broken whistled calls, and attempted trills.
  • A discordant note.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (of a bird) To squawk.
  • * 1990 , P. H. Liotta, Learning to Fly , page 32,
    • Still fluffy with down, she often attacks the other birds, cacking and flashing her wings, or threatens me as I watch through the tiny peephole of the near box.
  • * 2000 , Minnesota Ornithologists? Union, The Loon , Volumes 72-74, page 37,
    • While the Gyrfalcon cacked loudly on each stoop, the owl did not scream.
  • * 2007 , Turk Allcott, Time Leak , page 63,
    • Peckle snitted them off and cacked' at them. Then he flew up by the rope-tie spot and puffed out his chest and then the wrens made another dash for the scraps and he dove down and ' cacked them away.
  • (brass instrument technique) To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.
    • The bugler hopes not to cack during his performance.
    The conductor instructed the trumpet section not to cack the first note of the symphony.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . Compare caca.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To defecate.
  • * 2005 , M. J. Simpson, Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams , page 322,
    • ‘I asked him once if he got nervous before doing it,’ says Astin, ‘and he said he was absolutely cacking himself before going on stage, but as soon as he got there it was fantastic.’
  • (US, slang) To kill.
    • “He tried to shoot me, so I cacked him.”
    Synonyms
    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of defecation.
  • Excrement.
  • Rubbish.
    • Derived terms
    * cack-handed, cack-house (archaic)

    Etymology 3

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Australian slang) To laugh.
    • I had to cack when you fell down the stairs.
    See also
    * cack up

    Etymology 4

    From cock.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (slang) penis.