different between cavalcade vs sequence

English

Etymology

From French cavalcade, from Old French cavalcade, from Old Italian cavalcata, from cavalcare (“to ride on horseback”), from Medieval Latin caballic?, from Vulgar Latin caballus (“horse”). Doublet of chevauchee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæv?l?ke?d/, /?kæv?l?ke?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

cavalcade (plural cavalcades)

1. (collective) A company of riders.

   Synonym: company

2. A parade.

   Synonyms: parade, procession

   • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter IX, Section iii

     In the second row of the cavalcade were Francie, Fanny's god-daughter, now thirteen years old and already elegant in long frilled pantalettes, tartan skirts, and a leghorn hat with streamers, …

3. A trail ride, usually more than one day long.
4. (by extension) A series, a chain (e.g. of events).

   Synonyms: chain, series

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Verb

cavalcade (third-person singular simple present cavalcades, present participle cavalcading, simple past and past participle cavalcaded)

1. To move as part of a series or group, such as marchers in a parade or snow in an avalanche, especially in large numbers or in a chaotic or dangerous fashion
   • 1725, John Windhus, “A Journey to Mequinez”, in John Pinkerton, The Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels, Volume 15, Longman et al. (1814), page 478:

     Great numbers of horse were still cavalcading, but […]

   • 1866, Elizabeth Charles, The Draytons and the Davenants, M. W. Dodd, pages 348–9:

     […] although for the most part he believed the devil was too good a general to let his soldiers waste their time in cavalcading about on broom-sticks.

Further reading

• cavalcade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French cavalcade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?.v?l?ka?.d?/
• Hyphenation: ca?val?ca?de
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

cavalcade f (plural cavalcades or cavalcaden, diminutive cavalcadetje n)

1. horse parade, cavalcade

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: cavalcadent, cavalcades

Noun

cavalcade f (plural cavalcades)

1. cavalcade

Verb

cavalcade

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

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

From Old French, see English cavalcade.

Noun

cavalcade f (plural cavalcades)

1. cavalcade

English

Etymology

From Middle English sequence, borrowed from French sequence (“a sequence of cards, answering verses”), from Late Latin sequentia (“a following”), from Latin sequens (“following”), from sequi (“to follow”); see sequent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?kw?ns/

Noun

sequence (countable and uncountable, plural sequences)

1. A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series
2. (uncountable) The state of being sequent or following; order of succession.

   Complete the listed tasks in sequence.

3. A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).
4. A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) formerly used in funeral services.
5. (mathematics) An ordered list of objects, typically indexed with natural numbers.
6. (now rare) A subsequent event; a consequence or result.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, pp. 12-13:

     he found no words to convey the impressions he had received; then he gave way to the anger always the sequence of the antagonism of opinion between them.

7. A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show etc.
8. (card games) A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the four, five and six of hearts.

Usage notes

• (mathematics): Beginning students often confuse sequence with series.

Synonyms

• (a set of things next to each other in a set order): See Thesaurus:sequence

Hypernyms

• (mathematics): function

Hyponyms

• presequence
• (computing): escape sequence

Meronyms

• (mathematics): term

Derived terms

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Verb

sequence (third-person singular simple present sequences, present participle sequencing, simple past and past participle sequenced)

1. (transitive) to arrange in an order
2. (transitive, biochemistry) to determine the order of things, especially of amino acids in a protein, or of bases in a nucleic acid
3. (transitive) to produce (music) with a sequencer

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References

Further reading

• sequence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sequence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.