cascade /kæsˈkeɪd/noun 7verb 5forms 3 noun7 •A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade. — 1785 •(figurative) 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. •A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next. •A series of reactions in which the product of one becomes a reactant in the next •A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand. •A hairpiece for women consisting of curled locks or a bun attached to a firm base, used to create the illusion of fuller hair.A cascade can be added to one or both sides of the band to work well with longer hair. — 1998 •(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).Don't you hate cascades? I hate cascades! — 1993 verb5 •To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls. •To occur as a causal sequence.Child folders inherit the configuration of their parent folder, meaning that configuration settings cascade down through an application's virtual folder hierarchy. — 2003 •To pass (something) down through a chain or system in a flow or series of movements.Relief arrived at Cardiff Canton depot on 1 September in the shape of the first of 12 Class 170 units cascaded from Greater Anglia. — 2019 •To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.No matter how you tile or cascade the windows, each window's Minimize, Maximize, and Restore buttons work as usual. — 2001 •(slang, no longer used) To vomit.Then he began to choke. The next thing I knew, he cascaded onto my new carpet. — 2011 formscascaded · cascading · cascades
