cascade
English
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cascade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Etymology
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From French cascade, from Italian cascata, from cascare (“to fall”)
Pronunciation
Noun
cascade (plural cascades)
- A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
- Cowper
- Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade.
- Longfellow
- The silver brook […] pours the white cascade.
- Cowper
- (figuratively) A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade.
- The rise in serotonin levels sets off a cascade of chemical events — Richard M. Restak, The Secret Life of the Brain, Joseph Henry Press, 2001
- 2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London Line service”, in Modern Railways, page 18:
- Provision was made for this cascade of units when TfL [Transport for London] exercised an option in its order for Class 710s from Bombardier for an extra 6x5-car units and 3x4-car units: these would be used on the North London line and release '378s' for the East London line.
- 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.
- 1998, Teresa Nelson, Creative Wedding Decorations You Can Make, →ISBN, page 10:
- A cascade can be added to one or both sides of the band to work well with longer hair.
Derived terms
- cascadable
- Cascade County
- (juggling): reverse cascade, French cascade
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Verb
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- (intransitive) To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
- (transitive) To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.
- 2001, Greg M Perry, Sams teach yourself Microsoft Windows XP in 24 hours:
- No matter how you tile or cascade the windows, each window's Minimize, Maximize, and Restore buttons work as usual.
- (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.
- 2019 October, Rhodri Clark, “TfW seeks PRM derogation for Class 37 sets”, in Modern Railways, page 87:
- Relief arrived at Cardiff Canton depot on 1 September in the shape of the first of 12 Class 170 units cascaded from Greater Anglia.
- 2003, Adam Freeman, Allen Jones, Programming .NET Security
- (archaic, slang) To vomit.
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowing from French cascade, from Italian cascata.
Pronunciation
Noun
cascade f (plural cascades or cascaden)
- cascade (waterfall or series of small waterfalls)
French
Etymology
From Italian cascata, from cascare (“to fall”)
Pronunciation
Noun
cascade f (plural cascades)
- cascade (waterfall)
- cascade (series of event)
- (juggling) cascade
- A stunt performed for cinematic imitation or entertainment.
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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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