Stream vs Cascade - What's the difference?

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Stream is a related term of cascade.

As a noun stream

is a small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.

As a verb stream

is to flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.

As a proper noun cascade is

an administrative district in seychelles.

stream

English

Noun

(en noun)

A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams , the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01, author=Nancy Langston, volume=101, issue=1, page=59

, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The Fraught History of a Watery World , passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams , channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}

A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).

Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=10 citation , passage=With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.}}

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 21, author=Helen Pidd

, title=Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis, work=the Guardian citation , passage=A new stream of migrants is leaving the continent. It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen.}}

(sciences) An umbrella term for all moving waters.

(computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.

(UK, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.

Synonyms

* beck * brook * burn * creek * flow * rill

Verb

(en verb)

To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.

* Milton

beneath those banks where rivers stream

* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4

When I came to myself I was lying, not in the outer blackness of the Mohune vault, not on a floor of sand; but in a bed of sweet clean linen, and in a little whitewashed room, through the window of which the spring sunlight streamed .

To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.

A flag streams in the wind.

(Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.

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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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