English Dictionary

cascade

IPA（発音記号）

/kæsˈkeɪd/

動詞

自動詞 他動詞 古語 俗語

(intransitive) To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls. / (transitive) To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall. / (intransitive) To occur as a causal sequence.

日本語の意味

（自動詞）滝のように流れ落ちる、または落ちる / （他動詞）滝のように段階的に配置する、並べる / （自動詞）一続きの因果的な連鎖のように起こる

After the storm, water began to cascade down the rocky slope.

嵐の後、岩だらけの斜面を水がいくつもの小さな滝のように流れ落ち始めた。

意味（1）

(intransitive) To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.

Services between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk High are currently suspended, following a 30-metre breach of the Union Canal that occurred on August 12 after torrential rain and thunderstorms. The thousands of gallons of water that cascaded onto the railway line below washed away track, ballast and overhead line equipment, and undermined embankments along a 300-metre section of Scotland's busiest rail link.

意味（2）

(transitive) To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.

No matter how you tile or cascade the windows, each window's Minimize, Maximize, and Restore buttons work as usual.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To occur as a causal sequence.

Child folders inherit the configuration of their parent folder, meaning that configuration settings cascade down through an application's virtual folder hierarchy.

意味（4）

(archaic, slang) To vomit.

cascades （ present singular third-person ）

cascading （ participle present ）

cascaded （ participle past ）

cascaded （ past ）