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cascade
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)
- 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.
- 1785, William Cowper, The Garden
- (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.
- (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)
- (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.
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)
- 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)
- cascade (waterfall)
- cascade (series of event)
- (juggling) cascade
- 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
- first-person singular present indicative of cascader
- third-person singular present indicative of cascader
- first-person singular present subjunctive of cascader
- third-person singular present subjunctive of cascader
- 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
- indefinite plural of cascad?
- indefinite genitive/dative singular of cascad?
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downpour
English
Etymology
down- +? pour
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?da?n.p??(?)/
Noun
downpour (plural downpours)
- A heavy rain.
- Synonyms: cloudburst, rainstorm
Translations
Verb
downpour (third-person singular simple present downpours, present participle downpouring, simple past and past participle downpoured)
- (intransitive) To pour down; rain heavily.
Derived terms
- downpouring
Translations
Anagrams
- pour down
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