cascade – English noun declension

English noun forms of cascade

Noun: cascade
Singularcascade
Pluralcascades

Sample Sentences

  • Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade. [1785, William Cowper, The Garden:]
  • The silver brook […] pours the white cascade. [1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Spirit of Poetry:]
  • In the first week of May, Sharp began his summit push.
  • He scaled the North Col, an ice cascade riddled with gaping crevasses, and established a camp at about 25,920 feet, where tents often must be pitched at 45-degree angles. But when he awoke on the third morning, it was snowing and extremely windy, and Sharp decided to abandon the attempt. [2006 July 23, Allen G. Breed, Binaj Gurubacharya, “A Climber's Highest Ambition Twice, Briton David Sharp Attempted To Conquer the World's Tallest Mountain. Then He Made His Third Try.”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2016:]
  • The bride carried a cascade of roses and baby's breath.
  • 2001, Richard Restak, The Secret Life of the Brain, Joseph Henry Press
  • The rise in serotonin levels sets off a cascade of chemical events
  • Provision was made for this cascade of units when TfL [Transport for London] exercised an option in its order for Class 710s from Bombardier for an extra 6x5-car units and 3x4-car units: these would be used on the North London line and release '378s' for the East London line. [2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London Line service”, in Modern Railways, page 18:]
  • Don't you hate cascades? I hate cascades! [1993, e.j.barker, “Disassociation”, in alt.slack (Usenet):]
  • Spark a usenet cascade of no less than 300 replies. [1999, anonymous author, “CYBERLIAR SCAVENGER HUNT 1999”, in alt.test (Usenet):]
  • 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. [2004, swt, “ARRR!”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet):]
  • A cascade can be added to one or both sides of the band to work well with longer hair. [1998, Teresa Nelson, Creative Wedding Decorations You Can Make, →ISBN, page 10:]

Etymology

From French cascade, from Italian cascata, from cascare (“to fall”), from Vulgar Latin *cāsicāre, derived from Latin cadere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d-. See: French Nouns 'cascade', Italian Nouns 'cascata', Latin Nouns 'cadō'.