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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CASCADE, n. A waterfall; a steep fall or flowing of water over a precipice, in a river or natural stream; or an artificial fall in a garden. The word is applied to falls that are less than a cataract.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls
2: a succession of stages or operations or processes or units; "progressing in severity as though a cascade of genetic damage was occurring"; "separation of isotopes by a cascade of processes"
3: a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower; "a little shower of rose petals"; "a sudden cascade of sparks" [syn: shower, cascade] v
1: rush down in big quantities, like a cascade [syn: cascade, cascade down]
2: arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: French, from Italian cascata, from cascare to fall, from Vulgar Latin *casicare, from Latin casus fall Date: 1641 1. a steep usually small fall of water; especially one of a series 2. a. something arranged or occurring in a series or in a succession of stages so that each stage derives from or acts upon the product of the preceding <blood clotting involves a biochemical cascade> b. a fall of material (as lace) that hangs in a zigzag line 3. something falling or rushing forth in quantity <a cascade of sound> <a cascade of events> II. verb (cascaded; cascading) Date: 1702 intransitive verb to fall, pour, or rush in or as if in a cascade transitive verb 1. to cause to fall like a cascade 2. to connect in a cascade arrangement

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a small waterfall, esp. forming one in a series or part of a large broken waterfall. 2 a succession of electrical devices or stages in a process. 3 a quantity of material etc. draped in descending folds. 4 a process of disseminating information from senior to junior levels in an organization. --v.intr. fall in or like a cascade. Etymology: F f. It. cascata f. cascare to fall ult. f. L casus: see CASE(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cascade Cas*cade", n. [F. cascade, fr. It. cascata, fr. cascare to ball.] A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract. The silver brook . . . pours the white cascade. --Longjellow. Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade. --Cawper.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cascade Cas*cade", v. i. 1. To fall in a cascade. --Lowell. 2. To vomit. [Slang] --Smollett.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(cascades, cascading, cascaded) 1. If you refer to a cascade of something, you mean that there is a large amount of it. (LITERARY) The women have lustrous cascades of black hair... N-COUNT: usu N of n 2. If water cascades somewhere, it pours or flows downwards very fast and in large quantities. She hung on as the freezing, rushing water cascaded past her... VERB: V adv/prep

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Cateract, waterfall, fall.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To vomit.

Moby Thesaurus

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