cascade

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: cas=cade

CIDE DICTIONARY

cascade, 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.  [1913 Webster]
"The silver brook . . . pours the white cascade."  [1913 Webster]
"Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade."  [1913 Webster]

cascade, v. i. 

•  To fall in a cascade.  Lowell.  [1913 Webster]
•  To vomit.  Smollett.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cascade, n. & v.
--n.
1 a small waterfall, esp. forming one in a series or part of a large broken waterfall.
2 a succession of electrical devices or stages in a process.
3 a quantity of material etc. draped in descending folds.
4 a process of disseminating information from senior to junior levels in an organization.
--v.intr. fall in or like a cascade.

Etymology

F f. It. cascata f. cascare to fall ult. f. L casus: see CASE(1)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

cascade

River

N river, running water, jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau, sluice, water spout, water fall, cascade, force, foss, lin, linn, ghyll, Niagara, cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm, debacle, inundation, deluge, chute, washout, rain, rainfall, serein, shower, scud, downpour, driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst, hyetology, hyetography, predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin, mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash, dropping, falling weather, northeaster, hurricane, typhoon, stream, course, flux, flow, profluence, effluence, defluxion, flowing, current, tide, race, coulee, spring, artesian well, fount, fountain, rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet, streamlet, brooklet, branch, runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river, reach, tributary, geyser, spout, waterspout, body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash, spring tide, high tide, full tide, bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre, fresh, freshet, indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow, confluence, corrivation, wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple, anerythmon gelasma, beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps, rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea, hydrodynamics, hydraulics, hydraulicostatics, rain gauge, flowmeter, pegology, irrigation, pump, watering pot, watering cart, hydrant, syringe, garden hose, lawn spray, bhisti, mussuk, fluent, diffluent, profluent, affluent, tidal, flowing, meandering, meandry, meandrous, fluvial, fluviatile, streamy, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous, stillatitious, for men may come and men may go but I go on foreve, that old man river, he just keeps rolling along.