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Cascade vs Cavalcade - What's the difference?

cascade | cavalcade |

As nouns the difference between cascade and cavalcade

is that cascade is a waterfall or series of small waterfalls while cavalcade is a company of riders.

As verbs the difference between cascade and cavalcade

is that cascade is to fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls while cavalcade is to move as part of a series or group, such as marchers in a parade or snow in an avalanche, especially in large numbers or in a chaotic or dangerous fashion.

As a proper noun Cascade

is an administrative district in Seychelles.

cascade

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
  • * Cowper
    • Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade .
  • * Longfellow
    • The silver brook pours the white cascade .
  • (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
  • 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
  • (juggling) A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.
  • (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 )
    • Don't 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 didn't 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 .

    Derived terms

    * cascadable * (juggling) reverse cascade, French cascade

    Verb

    (cascad)
  • To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
  • 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 window's Minimize, Maximize, and Restore buttons work as usual.
  • To occur as a causal sequence.
  • (archaic, slang) To vomit.

    • Anagrams

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    cavalcade

    English

    ("cavalcade" on Wikipedia)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A company of riders.
  • A parade.
  • * 1929 , , Chapter IX, Section iii
    • In the second row of the cavalcade were Francie, Fanny's god-daughter, now thirteen years old and already elegant in long frilled pantalettes, tartan skirts, and a leghorn hat with streamers, …
  • A trail ride, usually more than one day long.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=5 citation , passage=Stranleigh found no difficulty in getting a cavalcade together at Bleacher’s station, an amazingly long distance west of New York.}}
  • (by extension) A series, a chain (e.g. of events).
    • As soon as I visited this website, a cavalcade of dialog boxes started to appear on my screen; that's when I realized my computer was infected with a virus.

    Synonyms

    * (company of riders) company * (parade) parade, procession * (series) chain, series

    Verb

    (cavalcad)
  • To move as part of a series or group, such as marchers in a parade or snow in an avalanche, especially in large numbers or in a chaotic or dangerous fashion
  • * 1725 , John Windhus, “A Journey to Mequinez”, in John Pinkerton, The Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels , Volume 15, Longman et al. (1814), page 478:
    • Great numbers of horse were still cavalcading , but
  • * 1866 , (Elizabeth Charles), The Draytons and the Davenants , M. W. Dodd, pages 348–9:
    • although for the most part he believed the devil was too good a general to let his soldiers waste their time in cavalcading about on broom-sticks.
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