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Flood vs Cascade - What's the difference?

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Flood is a synonym of cascade.


As proper nouns the difference between flood and cascade

is that flood is (biblical) the flood referred to in the book of genesis in the old testament while cascade is an administrative district in seychelles.

flood

English

(wikipedia flood)

Alternative forms

* floud (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:a covenant never to destroy the earth again by flood
  • *
  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods , were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= High and wet , passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.}}
  • (lb) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
  • :
  • The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood , leads on to fortune.
  • A floodlight.
  • Menstrual discharge; menses.
  • :(Harvey)
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To overflow.
  • To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
  • The floor was flooded with beer.
    They flooded the room with sewage.
  • (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than cannot easily be dealt with.
  • The station's switchboard was flooded with listeners making complaints.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=David Ornstein , title=Blackburn 0 - 4 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Blackburn offered nothing going forward in the opening period and that continued after the break, encouraging City to flood forward.}}
  • (Internet, computing) To paste numerous lines of text to a chat system in order to disrupt the conversation.
  • Synonyms

    * (overflow) overfill * (cover) inundate * (provide with large number) inundate, swamp, deluge

    References

    English ergative verbs ----

    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

    * ----