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Cascade

//kæsˈkeɪd// name, noun, verb, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Plumas County, California.
  2. 2
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Cascade-Chipita Park census-designated place, El Paso County, Colorado.
  3. 3
    A number of places in the United States:; A small city, the county seat of Valley County, Idaho.
  4. 4
    A number of places in the United States:; A city in Dubuque County and Jones County, Iowa.
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Kent County, Michigan.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Olmsted County, Minnesota.
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Wayne County, Missouri.
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Cascade County, Montana.
  4. 9
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Cherry County, Nebraska.
  5. 10
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in the city of Berlin and town of Gorham, Coos County, New Hampshire.
  6. 11
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Ohio.
  7. 12
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.
  8. 13
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
  9. 14
    A number of places in the United States:; A neighbourhood of Seattle, Washington.
  10. 15
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Preston County, West Virginia.
  11. 16
    A number of places in the United States:; A village in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
  12. 17
    A settlement in Hanover parish, Jamaica.
  13. 18
    An administrative district on Mahé, Seychelles.
  14. 19
    A locality near Burnt Pine, Norfolk Island.
  15. 20
    A locality in the Bellingen council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  16. 21
    A town in the Shire of Esperance, Western Australia.
Noun
  1. 1
    A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.

    "Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade."

  2. 2
    a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc.) likened to a rain shower wordnet
  3. 3
    A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade. figuratively

    "2001, Richard Restak, The Secret Life of the Brain, Joseph Henry Press The rise in serotonin levels sets off a cascade of chemical events"

  4. 4
    a succession of stages or operations or processes or units wordnet
  5. 5
    A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next.
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  1. 6
    a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls wordnet
  2. 7
    A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.
  3. 8
    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). Internet

    "Don't you hate cascades? I hate cascades!"

  4. 9
    A hairpiece for women consisting of curled locks or a bun attached to a firm base, used to create the illusion of fuller hair.

    "A cascade can be added to one or both sides of the band to work well with longer hair."

  5. 10
    A series of reactions in which the product of one becomes a reactant in the next
Verb
  1. 1
    To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls. intransitive

    "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."

  2. 2
    arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible wordnet
  3. 3
    To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall. transitive

    "No matter how you tile or cascade the windows, each window's Minimize, Maximize, and Restore buttons work as usual."

  4. 4
    rush down in big quantities, like a cascade wordnet
  5. 5
    To occur as a causal sequence. intransitive

    "Child folders inherit the configuration of their parent folder, meaning that configuration settings cascade down through an application's virtual folder hierarchy."

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  1. 6
    To pass (something) down through a chain or system in a flow or series of movements. transitive

    "Relief arrived at Cardiff Canton depot on 1 September in the shape of the first of 12 Class 170 units cascaded from Greater Anglia."

  2. 7
    To vomit. archaic, slang

    "Then he began to choke. The next thing I knew, he cascaded onto my new carpet."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French cascade, from Italian cascata, from cascare (“to fall”), from Vulgar Latin *cāsicāre, derived from Latin cadere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d-.

Etymology 2

From French cascade, from Italian cascata, from cascare (“to fall”), from Vulgar Latin *cāsicāre, derived from Latin cadere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d-.

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