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cascade

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Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 997 Housing Units (2000): 562 Land area (2000): 3.614463 sq. miles (9.361415 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.587689 sq. miles (1.522107 sq. km) Total area (2000): 4.202152 sq. miles (10.883522 sq. km) FIPS code: 13150 Located within: Idaho ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. rush down in big quantities, like a cascade [syn: cascade down ] arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A waterfall or series of small waterfalls. 2 (context figuratively English) A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade. 3 A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cascade is the fifth studio album by English musician Peter Murphy . It was released on 11 April 1995, through Atlantic and Beggars Banquet Records . Produced by Pascal Gabriel , it is Murphy's last album on Beggars Banquet and first album not to feature ...

Usage examples of cascade.

The long obsession had died with Maynard, and he had been dead before he hit the peat, like Cascade and Cotopaxi, Abseil and Col.

Then, blundering about and bellowing like a wounded rhino, he staggered out front and shoveled a big sluiceway in the recently patched ditch bank, allowing almost the entire acequia flow to cascade into his already soggy front vega.

Crimson clover has highest adaptation to the States east of the Allegheny Mountains and west of the Cascades, but will also grow in the more Central States south, in which moisture is abundant.

Without irrigation, the highest adaptation, all things considered, is found in Washington and Oregon, west of the Cascades, except where shallow soils lying on gravels exist.

I was so pleased with this neat and simple control that we have employed it for several other of the key steps in the cascade - finding, for instance, that the increase in dendritic spines occurs only in a remembering and not in an amnesic group.

The child, with face ashy white and eyes glistening, her spirit borne aloft by the fervent strains of the litanies, was gazing at the altar, where in imagination she could see the roses multiplying and falling in cascades.

For a while his mind left the bewildering cascade of events that had occurred since the day Tirilen had led him down the steep road from the Castle to look at the strange tinker on the village green.

But her silver hair had brushed his arm, a cascade of silk only rivaled by the smooth flesh of her wrist caught in his grip, the soft swell of her breast against his biceps, and the sweet scent of her female body.

Apparently the molecule caused a very complex cascade effect, in which the release of certain biogenic amines caused the release of other chemicals, and so on.

Somehow this brought home to her for the first time the sheer force of the Multiplier migration, its quality of being a cascading explosion of thistledown birling through and filling and abhorring the vacuum.

The seven tons of armor rocked back and forward as the bomblets cascaded off its hull.

Great-grandfather Bruder, he wondered, how easy do your bones lie, back in the cold and stony earth of the Cascades?

Then boots appeared before her, and strong hands and arms lifted Cec clear into the air, water cascading from her dress and legs.

The cingulate just sets off cascades of stress transmitters when reality is not shared, or pleasure transmitters when it is.

At the same time a torrent of lava, bursting from the new summit, poured out in long cascades, like water escaping from a vase too full, and a thousand tongues of fire crept over the sides of the volcano.