Telescope vs Cache - What's the difference?
telescope | cache |
A monocular optical instrument possessing magnification for observing distant objects, especially in astronomy.
Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
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 verbs the difference between telescope and cache
is that telescope is while cache is .As an adjective cache is
hidden.telescope
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(en noun)Derived terms
* telescopic * radio telescope * reflecting telescope * refracting telescope * terrestrial telescopeVerb
(telescop)See also
* binoculars * microscopecache
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(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.