Cascade



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.小瀑布
• ［英］ n.小瀑布 ( a small, steep waterfall)
• ［记］ cas ( 落下) +cad ( 落下) -> 一再落下 -> 瀑布
• ［同］ 同根词: casual ( 偶然的) ; decadent ( 颓废的)

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: French, from Italian cascata, from cascare to fall, from Vulgar Latin *casicare, from Latin casus fall
• Date: 1641
• 1. a steep usually small fall of water; especially one of a series
• 2.
  • a. something arranged or occurring in a series or in a succession of stages so that each stage derives from or acts upon the product of the preceding <blood clotting involves a biochemical cascade
  • b. a fall of material (as lace) that hangs in a zigzag line
• 3. something falling or rushing forth in quantity cascade of sound cascade of events

II. verb (cascaded; cascading)

• Date: 1702
• intransitive verb
  • to fall, pour, or rush in or as if in a cascade
• transitive verb
  • 1. to cause to fall like a cascade
  • 2. to connect in a cascade arrangement

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