Cache vs. RAM — What's the Difference?

A collection of items of the same type stored in a hidden or inaccessible place

An uncastrated male sheep.

Store away in hiding or for future use

A battering ram.

An amount of goods or valuables, especially when kept in a concealed or hard-to-reach place

The falling weight of a piledriving machine.

The concealed or hard-to-reach place used for storing a cache.

A hydraulic water-raising or lifting machine.

A fast storage buffer in the central processing unit of a computer. Also called cache memory.

Roughly force (something) into place

To hide or store in a cache. ]

(of a place) be very crowded

A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.

Digital memory hardware in which information can be accessed in any order with equal speed.

(computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.

A male sheep.

(geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.

A battering ram.

(transitive) To place in a cache.

The weight that drops in a pile driver or steam hammer.

To store data in a cache.

The plunger or piston of a force pump or hydraulic press.

A hole in the ground, or other hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry.

A hydraulic ram.

That which is hidden in a cache{2}; a hoard; a stockpile.

A projection on the prow of a warship, used to batter or cut into enemy vessels.

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.

A ship having such a projection.

To store in a cache{1}.

Ram See Aries.

A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)

To strike or drive against with a heavy impact; butt

A secret store of valuables or money

To force or press into place.

(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

To cram; stuff

Save up as for future use

To force passage or acceptance of

A male sheep, typically uncastrated.

A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.

A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.

A reinforced section of the bow of a warship, intended to be used for ramming other ships.

A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.

An act of ramming.

A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, steam hammer, or stamp mill.

(ambitransitive) To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function.

(transitive) To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.

(transitive) To seat a cartridge, projectile, or propellant charge in the breech of a firearm by pushing or striking.

(transitive) To fill or compact by pounding or driving.

(slang) To thrust during sexual intercourse.

(Northern England) rancid; offensive in smell or taste.

The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.

Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.

An engine of war used for butting or battering.

A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.

The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.

The plunger of a hydraulic press.

To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc.

To fill or compact by pounding or driving.

The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aries

The first sign of the zodiac which the sun enters at the vernal equinox; the sun is in this sign from about March 21 to April 19

A tool for driving or forcing something by impact

Uncastrated adult male sheep;

Strike or drive against with a heavy impact;

Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically;

Undergo damage or destruction on impact;

Crowd or pack to capacity;