different between cascade vs current

English

Etymology

From French cascade, from Italian cascata, from cascare (“to fall”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæs?ke?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

cascade (plural cascades)

1. A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
   • 1785, William Cowper, The Garden

     Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade.

   • 1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Spirit of Poetry

     The silver brook […] pours the white cascade.

2. (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
3. 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
4. (juggling) A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.
5. (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.

6. A hairpiece for women consisting of curled locks or a bun attached to a firm base, used to create the illusion of fuller hair.
7. (chemistry) A series of reactions in which the product of one becomes a reactant in the next

Derived terms

• cascadable
• Cascade County
• (ecology): trophic cascade
• (juggling): reverse cascade, French cascade

Translations

Verb

cascade (third-person singular simple present cascades, present participle cascading, simple past and past participle cascaded)

1. (intransitive) To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
2. (transitive) To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.
3. (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.
4. (archaic, slang) To vomit.

Translations

Anagrams

• saccade

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowing from French cascade, from Italian cascata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?s?ka?.d?/
• Hyphenation: cas?ca?de
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

cascade f (plural cascades or cascaden)

1. cascade (waterfall or series of small waterfalls)

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: kaskade

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kas.kad/

Etymology 1

From Italian cascata, from cascare (“to fall”)

Noun

cascade f (plural cascades)

1. cascade (waterfall)
2. cascade (series of event)
3. (juggling) cascade
4. a stunt performed for cinematic imitation or entertainment

Derived terms

• cascader

Descendants

• ? Danish: kaskade
• ? Dutch: cascade
• ? German: Kaskade
• ? Romanian: cascad?
• ? Swedish: kaskad

Etymology 2

Verb

cascade

1. first-person singular present indicative of cascader
2. third-person singular present indicative of cascader
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cascader
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cascader
5. second-person singular imperative of cascader

Further reading

• “cascade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• accédas, saccade, saccadé

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ka?skade]

Noun

cascade f

1. indefinite plural of cascad?
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of cascad?

English

Etymology

From Middle English curraunt, borrowed from Old French curant (French courant), present participle of courre (“to run”), from Latin currere, present active infinitive of curr? (“I run”) (present participle currens). Doublet of courant.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k???nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k???nt/, /?k???nt/
• (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)
• (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)

Noun

current (countable and uncountable, plural currents)

1. The generally unidirectional movement of a gas or fluid.
2. the part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially (oceanography) short for ocean current.

   Synonyms: flow, stream

3. (electricity) the time rate of flow of electric charge.

   • Symbol: I (inclined upper case letter "I")
   • Units:

   SI: ampere (A)

   CGS: esu/second (esu/s)

   Synonym: electric current

4. a tendency or a course of events

   Synonyms: flow, stream, tendency

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

current (comparative currenter or more current, superlative currentest or most current)

1. existing or occurring at the moment

   Synonyms: present; see also Thesaurus:present

   Antonyms: future, past

2. generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment
   • 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations

     That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt.

   Synonyms: fashionable, prevailing, prevalent, rife, up-to-date; see also Thesaurus:fashionable

   Antonyms: out-of-date, unfashionable; see also Thesaurus:unfashionable

3. (obsolete) running or moving rapidly

   • Lik to the corrant fyr that renneth
     Upon a corde

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien

     To chase a creature that was current then / In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.

   Synonym: speeding

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Curtner

Latin

Verb

current

1. third-person plural future active indicative of curr?