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Cascade   /kæskˈeɪd/   Listen
Cascade

noun
1.
A small waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
2.
A succession of stages or operations or processes or units.  "Separation of isotopes by a cascade of processes"
3.
A sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower.  Synonym: shower.  "A sudden cascade of sparks"
verb
1.
Rush down in big quantities, like a cascade.  Synonym: cascade down.
2.
Arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible.



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"Cascade" Quotes from Famous Books



... and traveled and preached from the Cascade Mountains to Idaho, thrilling, melting, and amusing, in turn, the crowds that came out to hear the wild-looking man whose coming was so sudden, and whose going as so rapid, that they were lost in wonder, as if gazing at a meteor that flashed across ...
— California Sketches, Second Series • O. P. Fitzgerald

... in pitch, and the needle-nosed shuttle plane began to dip once more toward the horizon. Ahead he could see the sprawling lights of Hospital Seattle, stretching from the Cascade Mountains to the sea and beyond, north to Alaska and south toward the great California metropolitan centers. Somewhere down there was a council room where a dozen of the most powerful physicians on Hospital Earth, now sleeping soundly, would be meeting tomorrow for a trial that was already ...
— Star Surgeon • Alan Nourse

... elected Xerxes of vast herds of wild horses, whose pastures in those days were only fenced by the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghanies. At their flaming head he westward trooped it like that chosen star which every evening leads on the hosts of light. The flashing cascade of his mane, the curving comet of his tail, invested him with housings more resplendent than gold and silver-beaters could have furnished him. A most imperial and archangelical apparition of that unfallen, western world, which to the eyes of the old trappers and hunters revived ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville

... turned N. and the mangrove line narrowed between the hills. Our path now ran east and more in the middle of the forest, and the cool shade was charming after the heat we had had earlier in the day. We crossed a lovely little stream coming down the hillside in a cascade; and then our path plunged into a beautiful valley. We had glimpses through the trees of an amphitheatre of blue mist-veiled mountains coming down in a crescent before us, and on all sides, save due west where the mangrove-swamp ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley

... day, Favourite, the only one who knew how to write, had written the following to Tholomyes in the name of the four: "It is a good hour to emerge from happiness." That is why they rose at five o'clock in the morning. Then they went to Saint-Cloud by the coach, looked at the dry cascade and exclaimed, "This must be very beautiful when there is water!" They breakfasted at the Tete-Noir, where Castaing had not yet been; they treated themselves to a game of ring-throwing under the quincunx of trees of the grand fountain; they ascended Diogenes' lantern, they gambled ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo


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