Synonyms for cascade
kæsˈkeɪdcas·cade

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 6 votes

1. cascadenoun

   a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls

   Synonyms:
   shower

2. cascadenoun

   a succession of stages or operations or processes or units

   "progressing in severity as though a cascade of genetic damage was occurring"; "separation of isotopes by a cascade of processes"

   Synonyms:
   shower

3. shower, cascadeverb

   a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower

   "a little shower of rose petals"; "a sudden cascade of sparks"

   Synonyms:
   exhibitioner, exhibitor, shower bath, shower, rain shower

4. cascade, cascade downverb

   rush down in big quantities, like a cascade

   Synonyms:
   cascade down

5. cascadeverb

   arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible

   Synonyms:
   cascade down

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. cascadenoun

   Synonyms:
   cateract, waterfall, fall

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:5.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "cascade":

   cascading, waterfall, cascaded, cascades, stunt, step-down

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. CASCADE

   Synonyms:
   Cardiac Arrest in Seattle: Conventional vs Amiodarone Drug Evaluation, Conventional antiarrhythmic vs Amiodarone in Survivors of Cardiac Arrest Drug Evaluation

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1. Terry Schilling:

   There's no mistaking it now : Our medical industry and government authorities care more about ideology and profit than they do about the health and well-being of our kids, hopefully, the looming cascade of malpractice lawsuits will finally convince them to return to sanity as Europe is now doing. Lawmakers in Congress and the states also need to start getting involved. For the sake of America's families, it's time to put a stop to this horrific experimentation.

2. Rudy Tanzi:

   It's possible that APOE4 either increases amyloid burden in women more than men. Or, perhaps, once amyloid accumulates, it leads to a fast cascade of pathology and neurodegenration in women versus men.

3. Mike Benton:

   It became clear that there were two main factors, first that overall climates were becoming cooler, and this made life harder for the dinosaurs which likely relied on warm temperatures, then, the loss of herbivores made the ecosystems unstable and prone to [an] extinction cascade. We also found that the longer-lived dinosaur species were more liable to extinction, perhaps reflecting that they could not adapt to the new conditions on Earth.

4. Arthur Georges:

   We believe that after the master sex gene on the sex chromosomes does its work, a cascade of gene regulatory processes (those governing development) is initiated leading to a male or a female hatchling reptile, for the most part, these regulatory processes are buffered in some way from varying temperatures in the nest, but only to a point. At high temperatures, the control of the master sex genes is eroded, and temperature brings in its influence.

5. Sarah Emerson:

   This is the cascade to the bottom. There's a lot of crude, and not enough demand, with Gulf Coast refineries backing out of Olmeca, Mexico needs to find new buyers.