EGAVE

cascade

About 2.96 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next.
  4. noun A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.
  5. noun 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. noun 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. noun (chemistry) A series of reactions in which the product of one becomes a reactant in the next
  8. verb To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.

Similar words

waterfall falls cataract cascade down flood deluge avalanche spate torrent chain

Often followed by

of mountains range and is in down to that

Word family

cascaded cascades cascading

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