cascade

«cascade» in Mova's school dictionary: a small waterfall, or a series of small waterfalls going… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a cascade, cascades); verb (cascade, cascades, cascaded, cascading)

meaning for a pupil

1) A cascade is a small waterfall, or a series of small waterfalls going down rocks. tree →

2) A cascade is a large amount of something falling or hanging down, like a cascade of hair or flowers. tree →

3) A cascade is a chain of events where one thing causes the next, and the next. tree →

4) To cascade means to pour or fall down quickly in large amounts. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography, waterfalls and rivers; in stories and descriptions, hair cascading down a back, water cascading over rocks; in science and computing, a chain reaction; phrases: cascade down, a cascade of.

examples

• Water tumbled down the cascade into a pool. tree →
• Her curly hair cascaded down her back. tree →
• A cascade of balloons fell from the ceiling. tree →
• One mistake set off a cascade of problems. tree →
• Flowers cascaded over the garden wall. tree →
• Rain cascaded off the roof. tree →
• Waters roared beneath them, or fell in cascades from above. tree →

note

Countable as a noun. Past: cascaded. In computing, CSS means «Cascading Style Sheets».

In the corpora

• Sea otters, sea urchins and kelp are another trophic cascade.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cascade» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.