cache, hide, stash

cache, hide, stash
As a noun cache means a hiding place, and as a verb it means "to conceal": "The Joneses placed their silverware in a cache upstairs." "You had better cache that money somewhere so that it won't be discovered." Hide, the most commonly used of these three related words, means "to put or keep out of sight": "Hide that letter in the file." Stash is an informal word of unknown origin that means precisely what cache does. Differences in use are slight: cache involves concealment in a place unknown to others and suggests storage with a view to later use; hide refers to putting physical items out of sight and also to disguising or withholding one's thoughts and feelings. Substitutes for these three words include secrete, bury, conceal, screen, and cloak.

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  • stash — See cache. See cache, hide, stash …   Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • hide — See cache. See cache, hide, stash …   Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • cache — See cache, hide, stash …   Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • hide — I verb 1) he hid the money Syn: conceal, secrete, put out of sight; camouflage; lock up, stow away, tuck away, squirrel away, cache; informal stash Ant: flaunt, expose 2) they hid in an air vent …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • hide — verb 1) he hid the money Syn: conceal, secrete, put out of sight, cache; informal stash 2) they hid in an air vent Syn: conceal oneself, secrete oneself, take cover, lie low, go to ground; informal hole up …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

  • cache — [n] hidden supply accumulation, assets, drop, drop joint, drop off, fund, hideout, hiding place, hoard, kitty*, nest egg*, plant, repository, reserve, shade, stake, stash, stockpile, store, storehouse, supplies, treasure, treasury, wealth;… …   New thesaurus

  • stash — (v.) to conceal, hide, 1797, criminals slang, of unknown origin, perhaps a blend of stow and cache. The noun meaning hoard, cache is 1914, from the verb. Slang sense of personal supply of narcotics is from 1942 …   Etymology dictionary

  • stash — ☆ stash [stash ] Informal vt. [< ? STOW & CACHE] to put or hide away (money, valuables, etc.) in a secret or safe place, as for future use n. 1. a place for hiding things 2. something hidden away; specif., a hidden supply of an illegal drug …   English World dictionary

  • hide — [v] conceal; remain unseen adumbrate, blot out, bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, cover, curtain*, disguise, dissemble, ditch, duck, eclipse, ensconce, go into hiding, go underground, harbor, hold back, hole up*, hush up, keep from, keep secret,… …   New thesaurus

  • hide — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. skin, pelt, coat; leather. See covering. v. cover, secrete, cloak, veil; dissemble, falsify; hole up; disguise, camouflage. See concealment, secret. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Skin of an animal] Syn. pelt …   English dictionary for students

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