Cash vs. Cache — What's the Difference?

In economics, cash ( (listen) kash, or kaysh in AuE) is money in the physical form of currency, such as banknotes and coins. In bookkeeping and financial accounting, cash is current assets comprising currency or currency equivalents that can be accessed immediately or near-immediately (as in the case of money market accounts).

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

Money in the form of bills or coins; currency.

Store away in hiding or for future use

Liquid assets including bank deposits and marketable securities.

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

Money paid in currency or by check

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

Any of various Asian coins of small denomination, especially a copper and lead coin with a square hole in its center.

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

To exchange for or convert into ready money

To hide or store in a cache. ]

(uncountable) Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.

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

Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.

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

Money.

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

Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.

(transitive) To place in a cache.

An instance of winning a cash prize.

To store data in a cache.

A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.

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

Any of several low-denomination coins of India, China, or Vietnam, especially the Chinese copper coin.

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

(transitive) To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.

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.

(poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.

To store in a cache{1}.

To disband. To do away with, kill

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

(slang) Great; excellent; cool.

A secret store of valuables or money

A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.

(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

Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money

Save up as for future use

To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.

To disband.

A Chinese coin.

Money in the form of bills or coins

Prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check

Exchange for cash;