cascade
/kæsˈkeɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.47 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
noun
A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next.
noun
A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.
noun
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).
Example Sentences
- "Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade."
- "The silver brook […] pours the white cascade."
- "In the first week of May, Sharp began his summit push. He scaled the North Col, an ice cascade riddled with gaping crevasses, and established a camp at about 25,920 feet, where tents often must be pitched at 45-degree angles. But when he awoke on the third morning, it was snowing and extremely windy, and Sharp decided to abandon the attempt."
- "The bride carried a cascade of roses and baby's breath."
- "Non-stop violence, they feed us cascades / of non-believers dying in the sand."
- "2001, Richard Restak, The Secret Life of the Brain, Joseph Henry Press The rise in serotonin levels sets off a cascade of chemical events"
Etymology
From French cascade, from Italian cascata, from cascare (“to fall”), from Vulgar Latin *cāsicāre, derived from Latin cadere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d-.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ḱh₂d-, cascade, cascata, *cāsicāre, cadō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kæsˈkeɪd/
- British English: /kæsˈkeɪd/