Niagara vs cascade

Niagara

noun
  • A flood, torrent, or outpouring, especially one of massive proportions. 

  • A Niagara grape. 

name
  • A regional municipality on the Niagara Peninsula, southern Ontario, Canada, colloquially known as the Niagara Region. 

  • A ghost town in Western Australia. 

  • A river (the Niagara River) which flows from Lake Erie, over Niagara Falls into Lake Ontario; the geographical region of the United States and Canada in proximity to this river. 

  • A city and town in Wisconsin. 

  • The Niagara Falls. 

  • A town in New York. 

  • A city and village in North Dakota. 

  • A ghost town in British Columbia, Canada. 

cascade

noun
  • A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade. 

  • A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand. 

  • A waterfall or series of small waterfalls. 

  • 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). 

  • A hairpiece for women consisting of curled locks or a bun attached to a firm base, used to create the illusion of fuller hair. 

  • A series of reactions in which the product of one becomes a reactant in the next 

  • 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 

verb
  • To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls. 

  • To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall. 

  • To occur as a causal sequence. 

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