Junk vs Cache - What's the difference?
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Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
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A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
(slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
* 1961 , William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine , page 7
(slang) Genitalia.
* 2009 , (Kesha), (Tik Tok)
(nautical) Salt beef.
Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
(dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
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 nouns the difference between junk and cache
is that junk is discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash while cache is a store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.As verbs the difference between junk and cache
is that junk is to throw away while cache is to place in a cache.junk
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (EtymOnLine).Noun
(-)citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
- Trace a line of goose pimples up the thin young arm. Slide the needle in and push the bulb watching the junk' hit him all over. Move right in with the shit and suck ' junk through all the hungry young cells.
- I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk
- Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk
- Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk
- (Lowell)
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* junk bond * junk bottle * junk DNA * junk drawer * junk food * junk hook * junkie * junk mail * junk ring * junkroom * junk science * junkshop * junk vat * junk wad * junkyardSynonyms
* (throw away) bin, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, dispose of, ditch, dump, scrap, throw away, throw out, toss, trash * See alsoEtymology 2
From (etyl) junco, from (etyl) djong (Malay (adjong)).References
cache
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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.
