cascade
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
chemistry
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
natural-sciences
performing-arts
physical-sciences
sports
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-.
Inflected forms:
form: cascades
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cascades
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cascading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cascaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cascaded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
pos: noun
examples: Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade.
The silver brook […] pours the white cascade.
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.
gloss: A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: 2001, Richard Restak, The Secret Life of the Brain, Joseph Henry Press
The rise in serotonin levels sets off a cascade of chemical events
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.
gloss: A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next.
pos: noun
gloss: A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.
pos: noun
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: Don't you hate cascades? I hate cascades!
Spark a usenet cascade of no less than 300 replies.
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.
gloss: A hairpiece for women consisting of curled locks or a bun attached to a firm base, used to create the illusion of fuller hair.
pos: noun
examples: A cascade can be added to one or both sides of the band to work well with longer hair.
gloss: A series of reactions in which the product of one becomes a reactant in the next
pos: noun
gloss: To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Services between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk High are currently suspended, following a 30-metre breach of the Union Canal that occurred on August 12 after torrential rain and thunderstorms. The thousands of gallons of water that cascaded onto the railway line below washed away track, ballast and overhead line equipment, and undermined embankments along a 300-metre section of Scotland's busiest rail link.
gloss: To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: No matter how you tile or cascade the windows, each window's Minimize, Maximize, and Restore buttons work as usual.
gloss: To occur as a causal sequence.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Child folders inherit the configuration of their parent folder, meaning that configuration settings cascade down through an application's virtual folder hierarchy.
gloss: To pass (something) down through a chain or system in a flow or series of movements.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Relief arrived at Cardiff Canton depot on 1 September in the shape of the first of 12 Class 170 units cascaded from Greater Anglia.
The railways have long cascaded stock from flagship routes to less prestigious services, and then eventually the backwaters of the network. In the past, they may even have passed into storage, ready to be dispatched to bolster routes to the coast, such as on summer Saturdays.
gloss: To vomit.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
slang
examples: Then he began to choke. The next thing I knew, he cascaded onto my new carpet.
Derived words: availability cascade
cascadable
Cascade County
cascade everlasting
cascade method
cascade particle
Cascadia
cascadic
cascode
cytokine cascade
trophic cascade
reverse cascade
French cascade
path cascade
photocascade
preference cascade
quantum cascade laser
subcascade
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: kaskade
lang: Finnish
word: tapahtumasarja
lang: German
word: Kaskade
lang: Malayalam
word: സംഭവപരമ്പര
roman: sambhavaparampara
lang: Polish
word: kaskada
lang: Portuguese
word: cascata
lang: Russian
word: каска́д
roman: kaskád
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: каскада
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kaskada
lang: Swedish
word: kaskad