Gists vs Cache - What's the difference?
gists | cache |
(rare)
* There's evidence that even our unconscious efficiently only stores the gists of memories.
* He made a listing of the gists of 1,000 consecutive episodes.
* The gists of the reports, however, their logic, their structural coherence, are molded by a concern to reconstruct the past.
* 1601 , (Philemon Holland)'s translation of (w, Pliny's Natural History) , 1st ed.,
** These Quailes have their set gists', to wit, ordinarie resting and baiting places. [These quails have their set ' gists , to wit, ordinary resting and baiting places.]
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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
As a noun gists
is (rare).As a verb cache is
.As an adjective cache is
hidden.gists
English
Noun
(head)book X, chapter XXIII “Of Swallowes, Ousles, or Merles, Thrushes, Stares or Sterlings, Turtles, and Stockdoves.”, p. 282:
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.