cascade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæsˈkeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: cascades
Etymology: From French cascade, from Italian cascata, from cascare (“to fall”), from Vulgar Latin *cāsicāre, derived from Latin cadere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d-.
Senses: examples: text: Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade.
ref: 1785, William Cowper, The Garden:
text: The silver brook […] pours the white cascade.
ref: 1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Spirit of Poetry:
text: In the first week of May, Sharp began his summit push.
He scaled the North Col, an ice cascade riddled with gaping crevasses, and established a camp at about 25,920 feet, where tents often must be pitched at 45-degree angles. But when he awoke on the third morning, it was snowing and extremely windy, and Sharp decided to abandon the attempt.
ref: 2006 July 23, Allen G. Breed, Binaj Gurubacharya, “A Climber's Highest Ambition Twice, Briton David Sharp Attempted To Conquer the World's Tallest Mountain. Then He Made His Third Try.”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2016:
glosses: A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
examples: text: 2001, Richard Restak, The Secret Life of the Brain, Joseph Henry Press
The rise in serotonin levels sets off a cascade of chemical events
text: Provision was made for this cascade of units when TfL [Transport for London] exercised an option in its order for Class 710s from Bombardier for an extra 6x5-car units and 3x4-car units: these would be used on the North London line and release '378s' for the East London line.
ref: 2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London Line service”, in Modern Railways, page 18:
glosses: A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade.
coordinate_terms: daisy chain
glosses: A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next.
topics: arts
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glosses: A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.
examples: text: Don't you hate cascades? I hate cascades!
ref: 1993, e.j.barker, “Disassociation”, in alt.slack (Usenet):
text: Spark a usenet cascade of no less than 300 replies.
ref: 1999, anonymous author, “CYBERLIAR SCAVENGER HUNT 1999”, in alt.test (Usenet):
text: Anyway. I didn't mean to say that everyone who posts URLs is bad and wrong and should lose their breathing privileges. Just that I was getting weary of look-at-this-link posts, sort of like some people get sick of cascades.
ref: 2004, swt, “ARRR!”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet):
glosses: A sequence of absurd short messages posted to a newsgroup by different authors, each one responding to the most recent message and quoting the entire sequence to that point (with ever-increasing indentation).
examples: text: A cascade can be added to one or both sides of the band to work well with longer hair.
ref: 1998, Teresa Nelson, Creative Wedding Decorations You Can Make, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: A hairpiece for women consisting of curled locks or a bun attached to a firm base, used to create the illusion of fuller hair.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A series of reactions in which the product of one becomes a reactant in the next
Derived terms: word: availability cascade
word: cascadable
word: Cascade County
word: cascade everlasting
word: cascade method
word: cascade particle
word: Cascadia
word: cascadic
word: cascode
word: cytokine cascade
topics: ecology
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word: trophic cascade
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lifestyle
word: reverse cascade
topics: juggling
performing-arts
arts
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: French cascade
word: path cascade
word: photocascade
word: preference cascade
word: quantum cascade laser
word: subcascade