What's the difference between cache and grab?

Cache


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The WikiLeaks website posted a Twitter link to the cache of documents, saying it “contains many tens of thousands (of) emails, photos, attachments up to April 24, 2017”.
  • (2) UK tax investigators have written to media organisations , including the Guardian, to request access to the huge cache of documents.
  • (3) The replication becomes impossible to hold back because any time a web server gains a new file and is queried by the search engines' "spiders" – which go out looking to see what has changed on the web – the cache of the web is updated, with the location of the new file.
  • (4) In short: the Pentagon damage report concludes that the "staggering" cache of documents that Snowden might have taken (most of which he probably didn't) could potentially cause grave harm if disclosed to a foreign power (which, as far as we know, they haven't been), and assumed that only genuinely super-sensitive information gets classified (which top intelligence officials concede isn't true).
  • (5) His Guantánamo file, which was among a large cache of documents later passed to WikiLeaks , shows that the camp authorities quickly reached the conclusion that he had no connection with the Taliban or al-Qaida but decided against releasing him because his “timeline has not been fully established”, and because the British diplomats who had seen him at Kandahar had found him to be “cocky and evasive”.
  • (6) At any rate, in 1984 the Israelis discovered an arms cache in the mosque he had built in the Jaurat slum where he now lived.
  • (7) Details come in two letters reportedly among a large cache of government documents released in the new year under the 30-year rule and published on the blog Stop Deportations .
  • (8) Clothes worn by Jennifer Lawrence while filming her Oscar-winning role in Silver Linings Playbook have sold for an impressive $12,000 at auction , confirming the young actor's newfound Hollywood cache.
  • (9) Radicalisation in Molenbeek: 'People call me the mother of a terrorist' Read more The apartment in southern Brussels also contained a large cache of ammunition, investigating prosecutor Eric Van der Sypt said.
  • (10) The army’s supporters said that the camp’s residents had tortured and murdered people in the spaces under the stage, and that they kept caches of weapons and explosives there.
  • (11) That should mean that your data will, in time, disappear from search engines' caches where they store information.
  • (12) Seroepidemiologic studies on the flock and serologic data from heart blood taken from the stillborn affected lambs indicated that the outbreak was due to in utero infection with Cache Valley Virus.
  • (13) Food-storing birds remember the locations of large numbers of scattered caches.
  • (14) During the period when the steel mill was closed, differences in per capita admissions between Utah and Cache valleys narrowed considerably.
  • (15) Trying to remove each and every listing took hours of my personal time (trying to claim each profile, contacting the site asking for removal, etc) and months of waiting for the cached versions to be updated and disappear.
  • (16) The optimal distance between the atoms generating the "cache-oreilles" system for exhibiting potent PAF antagonistic activity is estimated to be 11-13 A.
  • (17) This random sample of children with asthma demonstrated no LAR after CACh.
  • (18) "In the event that Syria imploded, for instance, or in the event there was a threat of a chemical weapons cache falling into the hands of al-Nusra or someone else, and it was clearly in the interests of our allies, all of us, the British, the French and others, to prevent those weapons of mass destruction [falling into their hands]," Kerry said, "I don't want to take off the table an option that might or might not be available to the president."
  • (19) Although any reply from Clinton does not appear in this round of emails, the cache does show her response to news from an aide that Ed Miliband had won.
  • (20) Because of practical difficulties involved in observation the extent to which the fox making a cache, or any other fox, can utilise the hoard was not known.

Grab


Definition:

  • (n.) A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.
  • (v. t. & i.) To gripe suddenly; to seize; to snatch; to clutch.
  • (n.) A sudden grasp or seizure.
  • (n.) An instrument for clutching objects for the purpose of raising them; -- specially applied to devices for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During the couple's 30-year marriage she had twice reported him to the police for grabbing her by the throat, before they divorced in 2005.
  • (2) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
  • (3) Montreal also took advantage of the power play, as Tomas Vanek (again, another necessary scorer) grabbed one with the man advantage near the end of the second period to make it 3-0.
  • (4) Van Gaal argued that Huth had grabbed Fellaini’s considerable hair and claimed it ought to have been a penalty but the Football Association’s disciplinary department will surely take action.
  • (5) In a trailer shown Sunday for an upcoming documentary on state-run Rossiya-1 television called “Homeward bound”, Putin openly discusses Moscow’s controversial grabbing of Crimea a year ago.
  • (6) And also fear of the police because they weren't there and thinking any minute they could just run through and grab or hit anyone.
  • (7) One little boy grabbed me and pleaded with me, that the Jungle was not a good place, and he didn’t want to be there.” Last month, protesters staged a die-in at St Pancras station in London against plans to clear the area of the Jungle.
  • (8) The "fly on the wall" stuff is no more for the moment but, Andy, grab the opportunities when you can – a few years down the line when Cameron is on the lecture circuit and the rest of us are hanging up our cameras for good, you should have an unprecedented photographic record of a seat of power.
  • (9) Egypt • Morsi is due to meet senior judges to try to reach a compromise over the decree, viewed by many as a power grab.
  • (10) At that point I was grabbed by the Belgian secret service and slammed against the glass.
  • (11) I think the heart of good comedy really lives in truth and reacting to the absurdities, hypocrisies, abuses of power in the world.” Late night television is a no longer a glass of warm milk before bed, it’s a lunch buffet And as TV viewership declines and internet virality becomes as important as real-time eyeballs, cable networks might find that topical comedy is a smart, cost-effective way to grab cross-platform attention.
  • (12) Another officer grabbing Mann by the collar and threatening his family – to arrest his wife’s “black ass” and ensure he would not see his young son grow up, Mann recalled in an interview – if he did not snitch on a heroin dealer.
  • (13) Latino Review has a track record of attention-grabbing scoops, though its accuracy has occasionally been called into question.
  • (14) He is the embodiment of the belief that money and power provide a licence to impose one’s will on others, whether that entitlement is expressed by grabbing women or grabbing the finite resources from a planet on the verge of catastrophic warming.
  • (15) Then King grabbed the podium and set his prepared text to his left.
  • (16) "At lunchtime, he would grab food from other children's plates and eat it, and that was a cause of concern for the school staff."
  • (17) The bomb threat tweet was sent to Freeman, the Europe editor of Time magazine, Catherine Mayer, and the Independent columnist Grace Dent, who took a screen grab of the tweet and posted it for her Twitter followers to see .
  • (18) Who knows, maybe it's not the worst thing in the world for the Eastern Conference to be completely up for grabs.
  • (19) A waiter grabbed a table cloth to use as a stretcher, but a photographer took the boy in his arms to carry him to the ambulance.
  • (20) As night fell, one teenager, Alex, who had slipped out of an independent school (she refused to say which one) was heading home, pausing only grab a flier advertising a "Snow Rave" for 16-18-year-olds.