Cascade Definition

kăs-kād
cascaded, cascades, cascading
noun
cascades
A small, steep waterfall, esp. one of a series.
Webster's New World
Anything suggesting this, as a shower of sparks or an arrangement of lace in rippling folds.
Webster's New World
A heavy, uncontrolled outpouring.
A cascade of abusive comments.
American Heritage
A succession of stages, processes, operations, or units.
American Heritage Medicine
A connected series, as of amplifiers for an increase in output.
Webster's New World
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verb
cascaded, cascades, cascading
To fall or drop in a cascade.
Webster's New World
To connect in a series.
Webster's New World
To occur in a sequence or successive stages.
Circumstances that cascaded into a crisis.
American Heritage
To cause to fall in or as if in a cascade.
Cascaded the ingredients into the bowl.
American Heritage
To cause to occur in a sequence or successive stages.
Wholesale price reductions that are cascaded down to the consumer.
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pronoun

An administrative district in Seychelles.

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Other Word Forms of Cascade

Noun

Singular:
cascade
Plural:
cascades

Origin of Cascade

  • French from Italian cascata from cascare to fall from Vulgar Latin casicāre from Latin cadere kad- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French cascade, from Italian cascata, from cascare (“to fall”)

    From Wiktionary

Cascade Sentence Examples

  • She reached up to unclasp her now-blonde hair, dropping it in a cascade about her shoulders.

  • The Chalcedony Cascade displays a variety of colours.

  • The Cascade Range enters from Canada, trending sotithward across the international boundary through ThePacifk Washington and Oregon to latitude 41; the Sierra Ranges.

  • The glaciers must have reached the sea at Cascade Point in southern Westland.

  • A shimmering cascade of magic shooting stars drifted down over the garden.

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Words Starting With

CCACAS

Words Ending With

EDEADE

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Words Starting With C and Ending With E

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