Cascade vs. Cataract — What's the Difference?

A waterfall or a series of small waterfalls over steep rocks.

A cataract is a cloudy area in the lens of the eye that leads to a decrease in vision. Cataracts often develop slowly and can affect one or both eyes.

Something, such as lace, thought to resemble a waterfall or series of small waterfalls, especially an arrangement or fall of material.

A large waterfall

A heavy, uncontrolled outpouring

A medical condition in which the lens of the eye becomes progressively opaque, resulting in blurred vision

A succession of stages, processes, operations, or units.

A large or high waterfall.

(Electronics) A series of components or networks, the output of each of which serves as the input for the next.

A great downpour; a deluge.

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

(Medicine) Opacity of the lens or capsule of the eye, causing impairment of vision or blindness.

To fall in or as if in a cascade

(obsolete) A waterspout.

To occur in a sequence or successive stages

A large waterfall; steep rapids in a river.

To cause to fall in or as if in a cascade

A flood of water.

To cause to occur in a sequence or successive stages

(figuratively) An overwhelming downpour or rush.

A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.

(pathology) A clouding of the lens in the eye leading to a decrease in vision.

(figuratively) A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade.

A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall.

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

An opacity of the crystalline lens, or of its capsule, which prevents the passage of the rays of light and impairs or destroys the sight.

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

A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; - sometimes called dashpot.

(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).

Clouding of the natural lens of the eye

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 large waterfall; violent rush of water over a precipice

(chemistry) A series of reactions in which the product of one becomes a reactant in the next

(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.

To vomit.

A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract.

To fall in a cascade.

To vomit.

A small waterfall or series of small waterfalls

A succession of stages or operations or processes or units;

A sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower;

Rush down in big quantities, like a cascade

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