cascade Definition
cas·cade (kas kād′)
noun
- a small, steep waterfall, esp. one of a series
- anything suggesting this, as a shower of sparks or an arrangement of lace in rippling folds
- a connected series, as of amplifiers for an increase in output
Etymology: Fr < It cascata < cascare, to fall < VL *casicare < pp. of L cadere: see case
transitive verb, intransitive verb -·cad′ed, -·cad′·ing
- to fall or drop in a cascade
- to connect in a series
cascade Synonyms
cascade Usage Examples
Object
- waterfall: There are towering peaks, cascading waterfalls and lush forests carpeted with ferns.
- sheet: For example, cascading style sheets can be deployed without harming browsers which are not aware of style sheets.
Converse of object
- juggle: Exercise 4 Close your eyes, stand on one leg & juggle a Three ball cascade.
- shimmer: A shimmering cascade of magic shooting stars drifted down over the garden.
- clot: Both of these agents exert their effect by acting on the clotting cascade ( Fig.
- trigger: In response to cold, plants trigger a cascade of genetic reactions that allow them to survive.
- initiate: Along its path, an individual projectile may create fast recoil atoms which in turn may initiate collision cascades of moving target atoms.
- signal: Calcium ions form an important part of this signaling cascade.
Preposition: on
lap: Doug Cole, who had qualified last, hit more trouble when he spun his car at ' cascades on the first lap.
Preposition: over
waterfall: A stream cascades over waterfalls through a well kept woodland glade.
Adjective modifier
proteolytic: There are many such caspases within an organism, which work together in a proteolytic cascade to activate themselves and one other.
Modifies a noun
- screening: Person centered The people who are to be offered genetic testing and cascade screening are at the center of this research.
- laser: His research interests include ultra-broadband terahertz spectroscopy; terahertz medical imaging; quantum cascade lasers and semiconductor growth by molecular beam epitaxy.
Noun used with modifier
- flowstone: At the point of entry, a flowstone cascade on the left marks the climb up in to an adjacent aven.
- coagulation: It forms a feedback loop that uses Protein C and Protein S to slow down the coagulation cascade.
- centrifuge: To do this you have to use a complex machine called a centrifuge cascade.
- transduction: Our early work established mutations in genes encoding members of the visual transduction cascade as important in these diseases.
- kinase: This activates a protein kinase cascade, ultimately leading to a multitude of complex effects.
- waterfall: A small waterfall cascades past the mouth of the cave like a shimmering curtain.
Followed by an intransitive particle
down: John has long hair that cascades down his back.
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