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# cascade

«cascade» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small waterfall, or a series of small waterfalls going…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a cascade, cascades); verb (cascade, cascades, cascaded, cascading)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cascade is a small waterfall, or a series of small waterfalls going down rocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cascade/#m1)

2) A cascade is a large amount of something falling or hanging down, like a cascade of hair or flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cascade/#m2)

3) A cascade is a chain of events where one thing causes the next, and the next. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cascade/#m3)

4) To cascade means to pour or fall down quickly in large amounts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cascade/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In geography, waterfalls and rivers; in stories and descriptions, hair cascading down a back, water cascading over rocks; in science and computing, a chain reaction; phrases: cascade down, a cascade of.

### examples

- Water tumbled down the cascade into a pool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cascade/#x1)
- Her curly hair cascaded down her back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cascade/#x2)
- A cascade of balloons fell from the ceiling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cascade/#x3)
- One mistake set off a cascade of problems. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cascade/#x4)
- Flowers cascaded over the garden wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cascade/#x5)
- Rain cascaded off the roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cascade/#x6)
- Waters roared beneath them, or fell in cascades from above. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cascade/#x7)

### note

Countable as a noun. Past: cascaded. In computing, CSS means «Cascading Style Sheets».

### In the corpora

- [Sea otters, sea urchins and kelp are another trophic cascade.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cascade» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cascade/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.