cascade

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A waterfall or a series of small waterfalls over steep rocks.
• noun Something, such as lace, thought to resemble a waterfall or series of small waterfalls, especially an arrangement or fall of material.
• noun A heavy, uncontrolled outpouring.
• noun A succession of stages, processes, operations, or units.
• noun Electronics A series of components or networks, the output of each of which serves as the input for the next.
• noun A chemical or physiological process that occurs in successive stages, each of which is dependent on the preceding one, and often producing a cumulative effect.
• intransitive verb To fall in or as if in a cascade.
• intransitive verb To occur in a sequence or successive stages.
• intransitive verb To cause to fall in or as if in a cascade.
• intransitive verb To cause to occur in a sequence or successive stages.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To form cascades; fall in cascades.
• To vomit.
• noun In manuf. chem., a series of vessels, frequently of stoneware, from one to the next of which a liquid successively overflows, thus presenting a large absorbing surface to a gas with which it is to be charged.
• noun A fall or flowing of water over a precipice or steep rocky declivity in a river or other stream; a waterfall, whether natural or artificial, but smaller than a cataract.
• noun In electricity, a peculiar arrangement of Leyden jars in which the outer coating of the first jar which receives the charge is connected to the inner coating of the second, and so on.
• noun A trimming of lace or other soft material, folded in a zigzag fashion so as to make a broken or irregular band, as down the front of a gown.
• noun The falling water in the constellation Aquarius. See Aquarius.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract.
• intransitive verb To fall in a cascade.
• intransitive verb Slang To vomit.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
• noun figuratively A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade.
• noun A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next; See also daisy chain
• noun juggling A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.
• noun Internet A sequence of absurd short messages posted to a newsgroup by different authors, each one responding to the most recent message and quoting the entire sequence to that point (with ever-increasing indentation).
• verb intransitive To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
• verb transitive To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.
• verb To occur as a causal sequence.
• verb archaic (slang) To vomit.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb rush down in big quantities, like a cascade
• noun a succession of stages or operations or processes or units
• verb arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible
• noun a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls
• noun a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower