Stockpile vs Cache - What's the difference?
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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 nouns the difference between stockpile and cache
is that stockpile is a supply of something kept safe for future use 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 stockpile and cache
is that stockpile is to accumulate a stockpile while cache is to place in a cache.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.
