Cache vs. Cookie — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cache and Cookie
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Cache
A collection of items of the same type stored in a hidden or inaccessible place
A cache of gold coins
An arms cache
Cookie
A cookie is a baked or cooked food that is typically small, flat and sweet. It usually contains flour, sugar, egg, and some type of oil, fat, or butter.
Cache
Store away in hiding or for future use
He decided that they must cache their weapons
Cookie
A sweet biscuit.
Cache
An amount of goods or valuables, especially when kept in a concealed or hard-to-reach place
Maintained a cache of food in case of emergencies.
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Cookie
A person of a specified kind
She's a tough cookie
Cache
The concealed or hard-to-reach place used for storing a cache.
Cookie
A plain bun.
Cache
A fast storage buffer in the central processing unit of a computer. Also called cache memory.
Cookie
A packet of data sent by an Internet server to a browser, which is returned by the browser each time it subsequently accesses the same server, used to identify the user or track their access to the server.
Cache
To hide or store in a cache. ]
Cookie
A small, usually flat and crisp cake made from sweetened dough.
Cache
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.
Cookie
(Slang) A person, usually of a specified kind
A lawyer who was a tough cookie.
Cache
(computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
Cookie
(Computers) A collection of information, usually including a username and the current date and time, stored on the local computer of a person using the World Wide Web, used chiefly by websites to identify users who have previously registered or visited the site.
Cache
(geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
Cookie
(North America) A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
Cache
(transitive) To place in a cache.
Cookie
A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.
Cache
To store data in a cache.
Cookie
(Scotland) A bun.
Cache
A hole in the ground, or other hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry.
Cookie
An HTTP cookie.
Cache
That which is hidden in a cache{2}; a hoard; a stockpile.
Cookie
(computing) A magic cookie.
Cache
A form of memory in a computer which has a faster access time than most of main memory, and is usually used to store the most frequently accessed data in main memory during execution of a program.
Cookie
An attractive young woman.
Cache
To store in a cache{1}.
Cookie
The female genitalia.
Cache
A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)
Cookie
A piece of crack cocaine, larger than a rock, and often in the shape of a cookie.
Cache
A secret store of valuables or money
Cookie
One's eaten food (e.g. lunch, etc.), especially one's stomach contents.
I lost my cookies after that roller coaster ride.
I feel sick, like I'm about to toss my cookies.
Cache
(computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics
Cookie
(informal) fortune cookie
Cache
Save up as for future use
Cookie
Affectionate name for a cook.
Cookie
(slang) A cucoloris.
Cookie
To send a cookie to (a user, computer, etc.).
Cookie
Any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)
Cookie
The cook on a ranch or at a camp
Cookie
A short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site
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