Meaning

7 senses
  1. A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.

    Wasserfall, Kaskade

    водопа́дvodopád

    a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls

  2. (figuratively)A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade.

    The bride carried a cascade of roses and baby's breath.

    2001, Richard Restak, The Secret Life of the Brain, Joseph Henry Press The rise in serotonin levels sets off a cascade of chemical events

  3. A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next.

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

  5. (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).

    Kaskade

    каска́дkaskád

  6. A hairpiece for women consisting of curled locks or a bun attached to a firm base, used to create the illusion of fuller hair.

  7. A series of reactions in which the product of one becomes a reactant in the next

Examples

14 sentences
  1. He caused them to cascade down.

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  2. Her hair cascaded down over her shoulders.

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  3. Her long hair cascaded down over her shoulders.

    ruЕё длинные волосы волнами спадали на плечи.

    deIhr langes Haar wallte ihr über die Schultern.

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  4. Her lush hair cascaded down over her shoulders.

    ruЕё пышные волосы водопадом падали ей на плечи.

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  5. This mosque has six minarets and cascading domes.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
waterfall:
sequence of events:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
waterfall:

Origin

From French cascade, from Italian cascata, from cascare (“to fall”), from Vulgar Latin *cā

From French cascade, from Italian cascata, from cascare (“to fall”), from Vulgar Latin *cāsicāre, derived from Latin cadere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d-.

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Forms

plural: cascades
Singularcascade
Pluralcascades

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc.) likened to a rain shower:shower-n

Word family

14 related words

See also

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