Definitions for cascades
cascades
cas·cade
Spelling: [kas-keyd]
IPA: /kæsˈkeɪd/
Cascades is a 8 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 131 anagrams from letters in cascades (aaccdess).
Definitions for cascades
noun
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a waterfall descending over a steep, rocky surface.
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a series of shallow or steplike waterfalls, either natural or artificial.
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anything that resembles a waterfall, especially in seeming to flow or fall in abundance:
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(in a drain or sewer) a chain of steps for dissipating the momentum of falling water in a steep place in order to maintain a steady rate of flow.
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an arrangement of a lightweight fabric in folds falling one over another in random or zigzag fashion.
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a type of firework resembling a waterfall in effect.
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Chemistry. a series of vessels, from each of which a fluid successively overflows to the next, thus presenting a large absorbing surface, as to a gas.
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Electricity. an arrangement of component devices, as electrolytic cells, each of which feeds into the next in succession.
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Biochemistry. a series of reactions catalyzed by enzymes that are activated sequentially by successive products of the reactions, resulting in an amplification of the initial response.
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a mountain range extending from N California to W Canada: highest peak, Mt. Rainier, 14,408 feet (4322 meters).
verb (used with object)
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to cause to fall in a cascade.
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Electricity. to arrange (components) in a cascade.
verb (used without object)
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to fall in or like a cascade.
Origin of cascades
1635-45; French Italian cascata, equivalent to casc(are) to fall (Vulgar Latin *cāsicāre, equivalent to cās(us) fallen (past participle of cadere) + -icā- formative v. suffix + -re infinitive
Examples for cascades
The cascades here, I'm afraid, come down more like seed oatmeal.
This warning is in payment for your kindness at the cascades.
cascades, brooks and torrents are the outward evidence of this inner travail.
The cascades, which fled at his approach, advanced when he retired.
In the evolution of the cascades, many have been the misadventures of volcanoes.
In the cascades there had been berries enough for the bears and for the Indians.
Between the rush of the cascades, streaks of rust showed everywhere.
This occurred while they were many miles above the falls, or cascades.
Nowhere is this better exemplified than in the monarch of the cascades.
He suggested supper at the cascades, in the Bois de Boulogne.