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cache | d |

As a verb cache

is .

As an adjective cache

is hidden.

As a letter d is

the fourth letter of the.

As a numeral d is

cardinal number five hundred (500).

As a symbol d is

deuterium, when it needs to be distinguished from ordinary hydrogen.

cache

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.
  • 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.
  • (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.
  • References

    * JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

    Verb

    (cach)
  • 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
  • d

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=c, next=e, image= (wikipedia d)

    Etymology 1

    Modification of capital letter D, from (etyl) letter .

    Letter

  • The fourth letter of the .
  • Usage notes

    The letter d is used in the alphabets of many languages, and in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent the (.

    See also

    (Latn-script) * (select similar letters and symbols) * (other scripts) * See

    Etymology 2

    Lower case form of upper case roman numeral D, a standardization of D or notch.

    Alternative forms

    * D,

    Numeral

  • cardinal number five hundred (500).
  • Usage notes
    With a bar over the numeral, i.e., as d, it represents five hundred thousand (500,000).
    See also
    * Lesser roman numeral symbol: * Greater roman numeral symbol: *

    Etymology 3

    Symbol

    (Voiced alveolar plosive) (head)
  • the (path-independent, ) differential of a quantity
  • voiced alveolar plosive
  • See also

    * (mathematics) {{Letter , page=D , NATO=Delta , Morse=-ยทยท , Character=D4 , Braille=? }} Image:Latin D.png, Capital and lowercase versions of D , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter D.png, Uppercase and lowercase D in Fraktur Image:Uncial d.png, Approximate form of upper case letter D in uncial script that was the source for lower case d ----