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Cached vs Uncached - What's the difference?

cached | uncached |

As adjectives the difference between cached and uncached

is that cached is having been cached while uncached is not cached.

As a verb cached

is past tense of cache.

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

    • uncached

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (computing, of data) Not cached
  • (computing, of a device) Having no cache