cascade
see also: Cascade
Pronunciation
Cascade
Proper noun
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see also: Cascade
Pronunciation
- IPA: /kæsˈkeɪd/
cascade (plural cascades)
- A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
- Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade.
- The silver brook […] pours the white cascade.
- (figuratively) A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade.
- 2001, Richard M. Restak, The Secret Life of the Brain, Joseph Henry Press
- ''The rise in serotonin levels sets off a cascade of chemical events
- 2001, Richard M. Restak, The Secret Life of the Brain, Joseph Henry Press
- A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next; See also daisy chain
- (juggling) A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.
- (Internet) 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).
- 1993, "e.j.barker", Disassociation (on Internet newsgroup alt.slack)
- Don't you hate cascades? I hate cascades!
- 1999, "Anonymous", CYBERLIAR SCAVENGER HUNT 1999 (on Internet newsgroup alt.test)
- Spark a usenet cascade of no less than 300 replies.
- 2004, "swt", ARRR! (on Internet newsgroup alt.religion.kibology)
- 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.
- 1993, "e.j.barker", Disassociation (on Internet newsgroup alt.slack)
- A hairpiece for women consisting of curled locks or a bun attached to a firm base, used to create the illusion of fuller hair.
- German: Wasserfall, Kaskade
- Portuguese: cascata, cachoeira, salto, queda d'água
- Russian: водопа́д
- Spanish: cascada
cascade (cascades, present participle cascading; past and past participle cascaded)
- (intransitive) To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
- (transitive) To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.
- (intransitive) To occur as a causal sequence.
- 2003, Adam Freeman, Allen Jones, Programming .NET Security
- Child folders inherit the configuration of their parent folder, meaning that configuration settings cascade down through an application's virtual folder hierarchy.
- 2003, Adam Freeman, Allen Jones, Programming .NET Security
- (archaic, slang) To vomit.
- German: herabstürzen
- Portuguese: cascatear
- German: hintereinanderschalten
- Portuguese: cascatear
Cascade
Proper noun
- An administrative district in Seychelles
- A small city/county seat in Valley County, Idaho.
- A city in Iowa.
- A town in Montana.
- A town in Wisconsin.
- A town/and/settlement in Jamaica.
- A town in Western Australia.
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