cascade

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls
• Hypernyms:
waterfall, falls
2. 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
• Hypernyms:
succession
3. 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
• Syn:
shower
• Derivationally related forms:
shower (for: shower)
• Hypernyms:
descent

II - verb

1. rush down in big quantities, like a cascade (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
cascade down
• Hypernyms:
descend, fall, go down, come down
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
2. arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible
• Topics:
computer science, computing
• Hypernyms:
arrange, set up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  shower, cascade down