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Stunt vs Cascade - What's the difference?

stunt | cascade |

As a noun stunt

is stunt.

As a proper noun cascade is

an administrative district in seychelles.

stunt

English

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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
  • "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."
  • A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.
  • Derived terms
    * publicity stunt * stunt double * stuntman * stuntperson * stuntwoman

    Etymology 2

    From dialectal . More at (l).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To check or hinder the growth or development of.
  • 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.
  • (cheerleading) To perform a stunt.
  • (intransitive, slang, AAVE) To show off; to posture.
  • * Hussein Fatal (Bruce Washington), I Don't Like That (rap song)
  • I don't like his style, and he always stuntin' .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 ----

    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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