Definitions for Cascade
kæsˈkeɪdcas·cade

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cascadenoun

   a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls

2. cascadenoun

   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. shower, cascadeverb

   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"

4. cascade, cascade downverb

   rush down in big quantities, like a cascade

5. cascadeverb

   arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. cascadenoun

   A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.

   Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade. -Cawper

2. cascadenoun

   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 uE000182303uE001 Richard M. Restak, The Secret Life of the Brain, Joseph Henry Press, 2001

3. cascadenoun

   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. cascadenoun

   A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.

5. cascadenoun

   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).

6. cascadeverb

   To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.

7. cascadeverb

   To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.

8. cascadeverb

   To occur as a causal sequence.

9. cascadeverb

   To vomit.

10. Etymology: cascade, from cascata, from cascare

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cascadenoun

   A cataract; a water-fall.

   Etymology: cascade, Fr. cascata, Ital. from cascare, a low word, to fall.

   Rivers diverted from their native course,
   And bound with chains of artificial force,
   From large cascades in pleasing tumult roll’d,
   Or rose through figur’d stone, or breathing gold. Matthew Prior.

   The most enlivening part of all is the river Teverone, which throws itself down a precipice, and falls by several cascades, from one rock to another, till it gains the bottom of the valley. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cascadenoun

   a fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract

2. Cascadeverb

   to fall in a cascade

3. Cascadeverb

   to vomit

4. Etymology: [F. cascade, fr. It. cascata, fr. cascare to fall.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cascade

   Cascade is a city in Dubuque County and Jones County, Iowa, United States. The Dubuque County portion is part of Dubuque Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Jones County portion is part of Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,159 at the 2010 census, up from 1,958 at the 2000 census. The city is located at the southwestern edge of Dubuque County, at the border of Dubuque and Jones Counties. Arguably the town's most notable historic event was the 1925 flood. Between 1880 to 1936 the town was connected to Bellevue via the Chicago, St. Paul & Milwaukee Railway Company. U.S. Route 151 runs through Cascade but in 2002 a four-lane bypass took traffic north around the city. Iowa Highway 136 runs from north to south through Cascade.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cascade

   kas-kād′, n. a waterfall: a trimming of lace or other material in a loose wavy fall.—v.i. to fall in cascades. [Fr.,—It.—L. cadĕre, to fall.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cascade

   1. A huge volume of spurious error-message output produced by a compiler with poor error recovery. Too frequently, one trivial syntax error (such as a missing ‘)’ or ‘}’) throws the parser out of synch so that much of the remaining program text is interpreted as garbaged or ill-formed. 2. A chain of Usenet followups, each adding some trivial variation or riposte to the text of the previous one, all of which is reproduced in the new message; an include war in which the object is to create a sort of communal graffito.

The Standard Electrical DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cascade

   The arrangement of Leyden jars in series on insulating supports, as described below.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cascade

   A fall of water from a considerable height, rather by successive stages than in a single mass, as with a cataract.

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1. cascade

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Anagrams for Cascade »

1. saccade

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Cascade in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Cascade in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Cascade in a Sentence

1. Wilmarth S. Lewis:

   The Yale president must be a Yale man. Not too far to the right, too far to the left or a middle-of-the-roader. Ready to give the ultimate word on every subject under the sun from how to handle the Russians to why undergraduates riot in the spring. Profound with a wit that bubbles up and brims over in a cascade of brilliance. You may have guessed who the leading candidate is, but there is a question about him Is God a Yale man

2. Mike Benton:

   It became clear that there were two main factors, first that overall climates were becoming cooler, and this made life harder for the dinosaurs which likely relied on warm temperatures, then, the loss of herbivores made the ecosystems unstable and prone to [an] extinction cascade. We also found that the longer-lived dinosaur species were more liable to extinction, perhaps reflecting that they could not adapt to the new conditions on Earth.

3. Lisa Salberg:

   If mom and dad are filling out the forms, when they have the conversation with the provider, then we're doing cascade screening for the family, doing more comprehensive screening, we need to think of health care as a continuum -- it's about the family.

4. Arthur Georges:

   We believe that after the master sex gene on the sex chromosomes does its work, a cascade of gene regulatory processes (those governing development) is initiated leading to a male or a female hatchling reptile, for the most part, these regulatory processes are buffered in some way from varying temperatures in the nest, but only to a point. At high temperatures, the control of the master sex genes is eroded, and temperature brings in its influence.

5. Kendra Viner:

   I think the treatments are fantastic, as long as we get people to that stage in the cascade, the outlook is very good.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Cascade
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cascade
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Cascade
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Cascade
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Cascade
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Cascade
7. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Cascade
8. ^ The Standard Electrical Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26535/pg26535-images.html#:~:text=Cascade
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=Cascade