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.

  2. Her hair cascaded down over her shoulders.

  3. Her long hair cascaded down over her shoulders.

    ruЕё длинные волосы волнами спадали на плечи. — marafon

    deIhr langes Haar wallte ihr über die Schultern. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. Her lush hair cascaded down over her shoulders.

    ruЕё пышные волосы водопадом падали ей на плечи. — Wezel

  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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