Cache vs Stache - What's the difference?
cache | stache |
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
(informal) Moustache, mustache.
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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)- 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.
References
* JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated TermsVerb
(cach)stache
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Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)"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.
"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.