Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cascades

1 sense of cascades

Sense 1
Cascades, Cascade Range, Cascade Mountains -- (a mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California; a part of the Coast Range)
       INSTANCE OF=> range, mountain range, range of mountains, chain, mountain chain, chain of mountains -- (a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cascade

3 senses of cascade

Sense 1
cascade -- (a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls)
       => waterfall, falls -- (a steep descent of the water of a river)

Sense 2
cascade -- (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")
       => succession -- (a group of people or things arranged or following in order; "a succession of stalls offering soft drinks"; "a succession of failures")

Sense 3
shower, cascade -- (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")
       => descent -- (a movement downward)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb cascade

2 senses of cascade

Sense 1
cascade, cascade down -- (rush down in big quantities, like a cascade)
       => descend, fall, go down, come down -- (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again")

Sense 2
cascade -- (arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible)
       => arrange, set up -- (put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order")