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Date "CASCADING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Downward movement of the surface water, generally caused by converging currents or by a water mass that becomes denser than the surrounding water. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Movement of crop load in a ball mill rotating at such a speed that the balls breaking free at the top of the rising load roll quietly down to the toe of the charge. With increased peripheral speed, motion changes to turbulent cataracting and, still faster, to avalanching when the upper layer of crushing bodies breaks clear and falls freely to the top of thecrop load. (references) |
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Crosswords: CASCADING |
| English words defined with "CASCADING": episcia. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CASCADING": Cascading Style Sheets, CSS ♦ Pele's hair. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Me mind is a raging torrent flooded with rivulets of thought cascading in a waterfall of creative alternatives (Blazing Saddles ; writing credit: Andrew Bergman, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, Alan Uger) | |
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| "Waterfall" by Donall O'Cleirigh Commentary: "Cascading waterfall." | "Forest Waterfalls 1" by Kenn W. Kiser Commentary: "Water cascading down moss covered rocks beneath a dense forest canopy." |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Shower; rainfall; drench; wet; cascade; cascading; . |
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| "CASCADING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 87.78% of the time. "CASCADING" is used about 90 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 87.78% | 79 | 37,388 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 12.22% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 90 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "CASCADING": cascading failures ♦ cascading menu ♦ cascading Style Sheets. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "CASCADING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | brusende (down welling, downwelling, sinking). (various references) | |
Dutch | cascade (cascade, cascade drop, cascade fall, down welling, downwelling, fall drop in series, full fall in series, ladder of drops, ladder of falls, sinking, steepped drop, stepped fall). (various references) | |
Finnish | vajoaminen (down welling, downwelling, sinking, subsidence), päällysveden laskeutuminen (down welling, downwelling, sinking). (various references) | |
French | plongée d'eau. (various references) | |
German | fallend (decreasing, falling, tumbling). (various references) | |
Greek | κατάδυση νερού (down welling, downwelling, sinking), κατακόρυφο θαλάσσιο ρεύμα (down welling, downwelling, sinking). (various references) | |
Hungarian | széthullás (split up), sorba kapcsolás, kaszkádkapcsolás (cascade connection, tandem connection), önmorzsolódás, átívelés szigetelőláncon. (various references) | |
Italian | cascata (cascade, fall, waterfall). (various references) | |
Manx | spooytal (cascade, spouting), skiootal (burst forth, burst forth of liquid, cascade, gush, jet, rush, spout, spouting, spurt, squirting). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ascadingcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | falhas em cascata (cascade failure, cascading failures). (various references) | |
Russian | каскадирование. (various references) | |
Spanish | fallos en cascada (cascade failure, cascading failures). (various references) | |
Swedish | nervällning (down welling, downwelling, sinking), nedvällning (down welling, downwelling, sinking). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"CASCADING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Casadiego, cassandring, Casscarino. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CASCADING" (pronounced kaskā"ding) |
| 5 | -k ā" d i ng | blockading. |
| 4 | -ā" d i ng | aiding, braiding, crusading, degrading, evading, fading, grading, invading, lading, masquerading, parading, persuading, pervading, raiding, serenading, shading, trading, upgrading, wading. |
| 3 | -d i ng | applauding, apprehending, abounding, acceding, according, abiding, adding, affording, alluding, amending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, joyriding, kidding, kneading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, pending, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-g-i-n-s" | |
-2 letters: cicadas, scandia, scandic. | |
-3 letters: canids, casing, cicada, naiads, nicads, siccan. | |
-4 letters: acids, acing, again, angas, asdic, cacas, cadis, caids, cains, canid, dangs, dings, gadis, gains, nadas, naiad, nicad, saiga, sanga. | |
-5 letters: acid, agas, agin, aids, ains, anas, ands, anga, anis, ansa, asci, caca, cadi, cads, caid, cain, cans, casa, cigs, dags, dais, dang, digs. | |
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