[每日] cached (a) 貯藏的
Word of the Day (Saturday December 13, 2008)
cached \kasht\, adjective:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/d959F
1. stored; hidden
2. in computing, stored in a part of memory used as a cache
MacMillan wrote to his sponsors at the National Geographic
Society, "I am more convinced than ever that far northern Arctic
work will never be done by heavier than air machines simply
because landing places are uncertain and caches of food and gas
cannot be depended upon.
-- Raimund E. Goerler, To the Pole - The Diary and Notebook of
Richard E. Byrd, 1925-1927, 1925
I switch on the Garmin to find my first way point, where I've
cached a 2-gallon bag of water. The device's little floating
arrow guides me to within 3 feet of the rock under which I hid
it.
-- Dan Neil, Los Angeles Times, 5/4/2008
The chief had two particularly fine horses, which so excited his
cupidity that one night he drove them off and "cached"- that is,
hid - them in a safe place. The chief looked for them high and
low, but without success.
-- Theodore Roosevelt, Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail
by 1797, from French Canadian trappers' slang, "hiding place for
stores" (c.1669), from French cacher "conceal," from Vulgar Latin
coacticare "store up, collect, compress," from Latin coactare
"constrain," from cogere "to collect"
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