Definizione monolingua

cascade

cascade (third-person singular simple present cascades, present participle cascading, simple past and past participle cascaded)

1. (intransitive) To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
2. (transitive) To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.
   • 2001, Greg M Perry, Sams teach yourself Microsoft Windows XP in 24 hours

     No matter how you tile or cascade the windows, each windows Minimize, Maximize, and Restore buttons work as usual.

3. To occur as a causal sequence.
4. (archaic) (slang) To vomit.

cascade (plural cascades)

1. A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.

   Now murmring soft, now roaring in cascade. -Cawper

2. (figuratively) A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade.

   The rise in serotonin levels sets off a cascade of chemical events — Richard M. Restak, The Secret Life of the Brain, Joseph Henry Press, 2001

3. A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next; See also daisy chain
4. (juggling) A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.
5. (Internet) A sequence of absurd short messages posted to a newsgroup by different authors, each one responding to the most recent message and quoting the entire sequence to that point (with ever-increasing indentation).
   • 1993, ""e.j.barker"", Disassociation (on Internet newsgroup alt.slack)

     Dont you hate cascades? I hate cascades!

   • 1999, ""Anonymous"", CYBERLIAR SCAVENGER HUNT 1999 (on Internet newsgroup alt.test)

     Spark a usenet cascade of no less than 300 replies.

   • 2004, ""swt"", ARRR! (on Internet newsgroup alt.religion.kibology)

     Anyway. I didnt mean to say that everyone who posts URLs is bad and wrong and should lose their breathing privileges. Just that I was getting weary of look-at-this-link posts, sort of like some people get sick of cascades.

Definizione dizionario cascade

cascade

cascata

cateratta

Altri significati:

series of electric components

(Internet) A sequence of absurd short messages posted to a newsgroup by different authors, each one responding to the most recent message and quoting the entire sequence to that point (with ever-increasing indentation).

(intransitive) To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.

(juggling) A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.

(figuratively) A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade.

(archaic) (slang) To vomit.

waterfall

To occur as a causal sequence.

A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.

In newsgroup articles, the accumulation of quotation marks (often angle brackets) added by newsgroup readers each time an article is replied to. Most newsgroup readers will copy the original article in the body of the reply; after several replies, the original material will have several quotation marks.

A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next; See also daisy chain

sequence of events

(transitive) To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.