Cascade vs Gasket - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between cascade and gasket

is that cascade is a waterfall or series of small waterfalls while gasket is any mechanical seal that serves to fill the space between two objects, generally to prevent leakage between the two objects while under compression.

As a verb cascade

is to fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.

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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gasket

English

(wikipedia gasket)

Noun

(en noun)

Any mechanical seal that serves to fill the space between two objects, generally to prevent leakage between the two objects while under compression.

A material which may be clamped between faces and acts as a static seal. Gaskets may be cut, formed, or molded to the desired configuration.

Any of a wide variety of seals or packings used between matched machine parts or around pipe joints to prevent the escape of a gas or fluid.