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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls;

2. a succession of stages or operations or processes or units;
- Example: "progressing in severity as though a cascade of genetic damage was occurring"
- Example: "separation of isotopes by a cascade of processes"

3. a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower;
- Example: "a little shower of rose petals"
- Example: "a sudden cascade of sparks"
[syn: shower, cascade]


VERB (2)

1. rush down in big quantities, like a cascade;
[syn: cascade, cascade down]

2. arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cascade \Cas*cade"\ (k[a^]s*k[=a]d"), n. [F. cascade, fr. It.
   cascata, fr. cascare to fall.]
   A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a
   waterfall less than a cataract.
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         The silver brook . . . pours the white cascade.
                                                  --Longjellow.
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         Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade. --Cowper.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cascade \Cas*cade"\, v. i.
   1. To fall in a cascade. --Lowell.
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   2. To vomit. [Slang] --Smollett.
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Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003):

cascade
 n.

   1. A huge volume of spurious error-message output produced by a
   compiler with poor error recovery. Too frequently, one trivial syntax
   error (such as a missing `)' or `}') throws the parser out of synch
so
   that much of the remaining program text is interpreted as garbaged or
   ill-formed.

   2. A chain of Usenet followups, each adding some trivial variation or
   riposte to the text of the previous one, all of which is reproduced
in
   the new message; an include war in which the object is to create a
   sort of communal graffito.



U.S. Gazetteer (1990):

Cascade, IA (city, FIPS 11305)
  Location: 42.29906 N, 91.00985 W
  Population (1990): 1812 (696 housing units)
  Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 52033
Cascade, ID (city, FIPS 13150)
  Location: 44.51302 N, 116.04066 W
  Population (1990): 877 (478 housing units)
  Area: 8.1 sq km (land), 1.2 sq km (water)
Cascade, MT (town, FIPS 12775)
  Location: 47.27070 N, 111.70247 W
  Population (1990): 729 (333 housing units)
  Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 59421
Cascade, VA
  Zip code(s): 24069
Cascade, WI (village, FIPS 12825)
  Location: 43.65942 N, 88.00851 W
  Population (1990): 620 (220 housing units)
  Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 53011
Cascade, WV
  Zip code(s): 26542


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

129 Moby Thesaurus words for "cascade":
   Niagara, bag, barf, belch, bring up, burst, cataract, chute,
   collapse, come down, comedown, crash, daggle, dangle, debacle,
   debouchment, declension, declination, defluxion, deluge, depend,
   descend, descending, descension, descent, dip down, disgorge,
   dissiliency, down, downbend, downcome, downcurve, downfall,
   downflow, downgrade, downpour, downrush, downtrend, downturn,
   downward trend, drabble, drag, draggle, drape, droop, drop,
   drop down, drop off, dropping, engulf, eructation, eruption, fall,
   fall down, fall off, falling, falls, flap, flare-up, flood, flop,
   flow, force, go down, go downhill, gravitate, gravitation, gush,
   hang, hang down, heave, inclination, inundate, jet, linn, lop,
   lose altitude, nappe, nod, outbreak, outburst, overbrim, overflow,
   overrun, overwhelm, parachute, pend, pitch, plummet, plummeting,
   plunge, pounce, pour down, pour out, pour over, precipitate, puke,
   rain, rapids, run over, rush, sag, sault, slop, slosh, spate, spew,
   spill, spill out, spill over, spout, spurt, stoop, submerge, swag,
   swamp, sweep, swing, swoop, throw up, torrent, trail,
   trend downward, upchuck, volcan, waterfall, watershoot, weep,
   whelm