nnoun.objecta mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California; a part of the Coast RangeSynset:Cascade Mountains Cascade Range Cascades
Part Holonyms:Coast Mountains Coast Range Northwest northwestern United States
Instance Hypernyms:chain chain of mountains mountain chain mountain range range range of mountains
Inherited Hypernyms:cascadesrangegeological formationobjectphysical entityentity
Part Meronyms:Adams Mount Adams Mount Saint Helens Mount St. Helens Mt. St. Helens Mount Rainier Mount Tacoma Mt. Rainier Rainier
nnoun.objecta small waterfall or series of small waterfallsDerivationally Related Form:cascade
Hypernyms:falls waterfall
Inherited Hypernyms:cascadewaterfallbody of waterthingphysical entityentity
nnoun.groupa succession of stages or operations or processes or unitsExamples:- progressing in severity as though a cascade of genetic damage was occurring
- separation of isotopes by a cascade of processes
Hypernyms:succession
Inherited Hypernyms:cascadesuccessionseriesorderingarrangementgroupabstractionentity
nnoun.eventa sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain showerSynset:cascade shower
Examples:- a little shower of rose petals
- a sudden cascade of sparks
Derivationally Related Form:shower
Hypernyms:descent
Inherited Hypernyms:showerdescentchange of locationmovementhappeningeventpsychological featureabstractionentity
vverb.motionrush down in big quantities, like a cascadeSynset:cascade cascade down
Derivationally Related Form:cascade
Hypernyms:come down descend fall go down
Inherited Hypernyms:cascadedescendtravel
Sentence Frame:Something ---s | The water ---s (apply to: cascade down)
vverb.contactarrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visibleTopic:computer sciencecomputing
Hypernyms:arrange set up
Inherited Hypernyms:cascadearrangeputmove
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something