Stunt vs Cascade - What's the difference?
stunt | cascade |
A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.
(archaic) skill
* 1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.
To check or hinder the growth or development of.
(cheerleading) To perform a stunt.
(intransitive, slang, AAVE) To show off; to posture.
* Hussein Fatal (Bruce Washington), I Don't Like That (rap song)
A check in growth.
That which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
A two-year-old whale, which, having been weaned, is lean and yields little blubber.
English terms with multiple etymologies
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A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
* Cowper
* Longfellow
(figuratively) A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade.
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 )
* 1999 , "Anonymous", CYBERLIAR SCAVENGER HUNT 1999'' (on Internet newsgroup ''alt.test )
* 2004 , "swt", ARRR!'' (on Internet newsgroup ''alt.religion.kibology )
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
To occur as a causal sequence.
(archaic, slang) To vomit.
As a noun stunt
is stunt.As a proper noun cascade is
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English
Etymology 1
Unknown.Noun
(en noun)- "See if you can hit the barrel, Joe," urged George Bland. "A lot of us have missed it, including Peaches, who seems to think his particular stunt is high throwing."
Derived terms
* publicity stunt * stunt double * stuntman * stuntperson * stuntwomanEtymology 2
From dialectal . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- Some have said smoking stunts your growth.
- The politician timed his announcement to stunt any surge in the polls his opponent might gain from the convention.
- I don't like his style, and he always stuntin' .
Noun
(en noun)cascade
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade .
- The silver brook pours the white 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
- Don't you hate cascades ? I hate cascades!
- Spark a usenet cascade of no less than 300 replies.
- 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 cascadeVerb
(cascad)- No matter how you tile or cascade the windows, each window's Minimize, Maximize, and Restore buttons work as usual.