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waterfall
English
Etymology
From Middle English waterfal, waterfalle, from Old English wæter?efeall (“waterfall”), equivalent to water +? fall. Cognate with West Frisian wetterfal (“waterfall”), Dutch waterval (“waterfall”), German Wasserfall (“waterfall”), Swedish vattenfall (“waterfall”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?w??t?f??l/
- (US) enPR: wô?t?r-fôl, IPA(key): /?w?t?f?l/
- Rhymes: -??l
Noun
waterfall (plural waterfalls)
- a flow of water over the edge of a cliff.
- Synonyms: cataract, cascade
- (figuratively) A waterfall-like outpouring of liquid, smoke, etc.
- A waterfall of mist came from the open freezer.
- (technical, computing, slang) Waterfall model
- A very long duration project […] had taken a whole group of people through a painful waterfall development process.
- (slang, US) The action of drinking from a vessel without touching it with the lips, considered more sanitary for a shared vessel.
- Hey man, can I take a waterfall from your bottle?
- (colloquial, dated) A necktie.
- (colloquial, dated) A chignon.
- (colloquial, dated) A beard.
- I found home a dreary place after my long absence; for half the children I had known were now wearing whiskers or waterfalls... (Mark Twain, Roughing It)
Synonyms
- (flow of water over the edge a cliff): cascade, cataract, sault
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
waterfall (third-person singular simple present waterfalls, present participle waterfalling, simple past and past participle waterfalled)
- (intransitive) To fall like a waterfall.
- (transitive) To drink (something) from a container by pouring it from a height so as not to touch one's lips to the rim.
Derived terms
- waterfalled
- waterfalling
See also
- cloudfall
- icefall
- smokefall
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