different between cascade vs ooze

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: o?oz, IPA^(key): /u?z/
• Rhymes: -u?z
• Homophone: oohs

Etymology 1

• (Noun) Middle English wose (“sap”), from Old English w?s (“sap, froth”), from Proto-Germanic *w?s? (cf. Middle Low German wose (“scum”), Old High German wasal (“rain”), Old Swedish os, oos), from Proto-Indo-European *wóseh? (“sap”) (cf. Sanskrit ??? (vás?, “fat”)).
• (Verb) Middle English wosen, from wose (wose, “sap”); see above.

Noun

ooze (countable and uncountable, plural oozes)

1. Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
2. An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
3. (obsolete) Secretion, humour.
4. (obsolete) Juice, sap.

Translations

Verb

ooze (third-person singular simple present oozes, present participle oozing, simple past and past participle oozed)

1. (intransitive, sometimes figuratively) To be secreted or slowly leak.
   • 1868, Charlotte Riddell, A Strange Christmas Game

     I promised him I would keep silence, but the story gradually oozed out, and the Cronsons left the country.

   • 1988, David Drake, The Sea Hag, Baen Publishing Enterprises (2003), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Pale slime oozed through all the surfaces; some of it dripped from the ceiling and burned Dennis as badly as the blazing sparks had done a moment before.

   • 1994, Madeleine May Kunin, Living a Political Life, Vintage Books (1995), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     He was hard to understand because he spoke softly, and his Vermont accent was as thick as maple syrup oozing down a pile of pancakes.

   • 2011, Karen Mahoney, The Iron Witch, Flux (2011), ?ISBN, page 278:

     Her heart constricted when she saw thick blood oozing from a wide gash in his forehead.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.
   • 1989, Robert R. McCammon, The Wolf's Hour, Open Road Integrated Media (2011), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     "Good servants are so hard to find," Chesna said, oozing arrogance.

   • 1999, Tamsin Blanchard, Antonio Berardi: Sex and Sensibility, Watson-Guptill Publications (1999), ?ISBN, page 16:

     There are no two ways about it: a Berardi dress oozes sex appeal from its very seams.

Derived terms

• oozy

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English wose, from Old English w?se (“mud, mire”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *wais? (compare Dutch waas (“haze, mist; bloom”), (obsolete) German Wasen (“turf, sod”), Old Norse veisa (“slime, stagnant pool”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weis (“to flow”) (compare Sanskrit ??????? (vi?yati, “flow, let loose”)). More at virus.

Noun

ooze (plural oozes)

1. Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.

2. (oceanography) A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter

     Seaweed were left on the blackened marble, while the salt ooze defaced the matchless works of art.

3. A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.