Cascade vs Dribble - What's the difference?

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Cascade is a related term of dribble.

As a proper noun cascade

is an administrative district in seychelles.

As a verb dribble is

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.

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dribble

English

Verb

(dribbl)

To let saliva drip from the mouth, to drool

To fall in drops or an unsteady stream, to trickle

In various ball games, to run with the ball, controlling its path with the feet

(basketball) To bounce the ball on the floor with one hand at a time, enabling the player to move with it;

To advance by dribbling

to let something fall in drips

* Jonathan Swift

Let the cook dribble it all the way upstairs.

in various ball games, to move the ball, by repeated light kicks

Noun

(en noun)

A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle.

A small amount of a liquid.

In sport, the act of dribbling.

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