- cascade⇄cascade, noun, verb, -caded,-cading.
- cascade⇄noun 1a. a small, steep waterfall.
Ex. Cascades are often of great height.
b. (Figurative.) a torrent.
Ex. She burst into a cascade of words (New Yorker).
2. anything like this:
a. loose, descending folds of lace or simil - cascade⇄v.i. to fall, pour, or flow in a cascade.
Ex. The water cascaded off the roof in the thunderstorm. Many new buildings are girdled with safety nets to protect passers-by from cascading bricks and plaster (Time). - cascade⇄v.t. to cause to fall, pour, or flow in a cascade:
a. to pass through a series of similar pieces of apparatus.
b. to arrange or connect (pieces of apparatus) so that one feeds into the next.