Crossword clues for waterfall
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Waterfall \Wa"ter*fall`\, n.
A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract.
(Hairdressing) An arrangement of a woman's back hair over a cushion or frame in some resemblance to a waterfall.
A certain kind of neck scarf.
--T. Hughes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A flow of water over the edge of a cliff. 2 (context figuratively English) A waterfall-like outpouring of liquid, smoke, etc. 3 (context technical computing slang English) http://en.wikipedi
org/wiki/Waterfall%20model v
(context intransitive English) To fall like a waterfall.
WordNet
n. a steep descent of the water of a river [syn: falls]
Wikipedia
Waterfall (Waterval) is a lithograph by the Dutch artist M.C.Escher, first printed in October 1961. It shows a physically impossible perpetual motion machine where water from the base of a waterfall appears to run downhill along the water path before reaching the top of the waterfall.
While most two-dimensional artists use relative proportions to create an illusion of depth, Escher here and elsewhere uses conflicting proportions to create a visual paradox. The watercourse supplying the waterfall (its aqueduct or leat) has the structure of two Penrose triangles. A Penrose triangle is an impossible object designed by Oscar Reutersvärd in 1934, and found independently by Roger Penrose in 1958.
A waterfall is a natural formation.
Waterfall or waterfalls may also refer to:
"Waterfall" is the ninth single from The Stone Roses. It was the fourth single taken from their debut album The Stone Roses. It was released on 30 December 1991 and reached number 27 in the UK. Unlike the LP Version the single version was remixed by Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne.
The song was placed at number 5 in a 2013 poll, by readers of The Guardian, of their "all-time favourite songs by the band."
Rather than being a full drinking game, "Waterfall" is usually a game played within other games such as Kings or Bergen's Baseball. The game is set up so that all players are arranged in a circle and begin to drink beer at the same time. Players can only put down their cup when the person before them in the line puts down theirs (usually the person who draws the Waterfall card is considered first in line). While possible with just a few people, the game gets especially exciting as the number of participants increases.
"Waterfall" is a song performed by Sopho Gelovani and Nodiko Tatishvili. It represented Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden, coming 15th in the final with a total of 50 points. It was composed by Swedish producer Thomas G:son and Erik Bernholm.
Waterfall is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Arnold C. Waterfall (1914–1990), British philatelist
- Linda Waterfall (born 1950), American folk musician and singer-songwriter
- Luke Waterfall (born 1990), English footballer
Waterfall is the fourth album released for the American market by the English jazz rock band If. It was first issued in 1972 and reached #195 on the Billboard Pop Albums Chart.
It is a rearranged version of If 4, containing two tracks, "Paint Your Pictures" and "Cast No Shadows", in substitution of "You in Your Small Corner" and "Svenska Soma", which had been released on IF 4. The original recording line-up was modified to include two new members, Cliff Davies and Dave Wintour, who filled the drum and bass chairs in substitution of Dennis Elliott and Jim Richardson, respectively.
The album was recorded in London at Command Studios in February and at Morgan Studios in July 1972.
"Waterfall" is a song written and performed by Carly Simon, and produced by Richard Perry. The song served as the second single from Simon's fifth studio album, Playing Possum.
Waterfall was not as successful on the Billboard Pop singles chart as its predecessor " Attitude Dancing", peaking only at #78. However, it was much more successful on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, reaching a peak position of #21.
Simon later included the track on her 2002 career retrospective set, Anthology. James Taylor provides backing vocals on the track.
Usage examples of "waterfall".
Since I have been here the beautification of his garden has been his chief object, and he has made a very respectable waterfall, a rushing stream, a small lake, a rustic bamboo bridge, and several grass banks, and has transplanted several large trees.
Strung precariously over the third and steepest waterfall along the entire Bindadnay, this bridge also served as the official boundary marker between Benji territory and the Unghatti forest.
There were hanging gardens, miniature forests, waterfalls, small game preserves, lakelets, parklets, and playgrounds.
The ship slipped sideways, as if sliding from an invisible surface that had been tilted beneath it, and a roaring, something like a waterfall but not really like any sound Parrah had ever heard before, reached her.
North Dome, any one of which might have been excavated into a commodious church, and discovering, for the pains cost by a reconnoissance of five miles, some of the loveliest shady stretches of singing water and some of the finest minor waterfalls in our American scenery.
By Sawdde, Senny, Dovey, Dee, Edw, Eden, Aled, all, Taff and Towy broad and free, Llyfnant with its waterfall, Claerwen, Cleddau, Dulais, Daw, Ely, Gwili, Ogwr, Nedd, Small is our River Dewi, Lord, A baby on a rushy bed.
Facing this river, to the right as I see it, but far across the plain, are lovely mountains not so very lofty, where, from the other river of the lake, amidst slender ferns, rush waterfalls that descend in bursts of stirless spray.
In full view, and lit up by the reflected radiance flung out from the dome, a rushing waterfall made sonorous surgy music of its own as it tumbled headlong into a rocky recess overgrown with lotus-lilies and plumy fern,--here and there, small, white and gold tents or pavilions glimmered invitingly through the shadows cast by the great magnolia trees, from whose lovely half-shut buds balmy odors crept deliciously through the warm air.
In the center, a large artificial waterfall plunged into a rocky pool surrounded by showy clumps of grass, a fifteen-foot green cactus with many branches and symmetrical ribs, and a tornillo mesquite with twisted limbs, hung wim odd-shaped corkscrew beans.
He skidded to a stop beside Towser where the waterfall broke into a glittering rainbow of many hundred colours.
Mr Umbril the shoemaker that his chest pains will clear up if he walks to the waterfall at Tumble Crag every day for a month and throws three shiny pebbles into the pool for the water sprites!
If a berserker force was going to descend on Waterfall, the chance of four defenseless humans avoiding discovery by the unliving killers would be nil.
Isabel subsidized feral hippies and the mulatto offspring of her criminal relations and Rachel Ebdus could certainly send Dylan, God help him, to Public School 38 to show his sole white face among that ocean of brown, to air his waterfall of girlish hair among the Afros, if that was what suited her principles.
But before he died he put the Amadan under geasa to meet and to fight the White Wether of the Hill of the Waterfalls.
Even mousy Conseil did not lag behind as they trudged past trickling waterfalls and rockslides, until they reached the Anatolian Plateau, a wilderness peopled only by a few nomads.