Cascade vs. Deluge — What's the Difference?

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

A great flood.

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

A heavy downpour.

A heavy, uncontrolled outpouring

Something that overwhelms as if by a great flood

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

Deluge In the Bible, the great flood that occurred in the time of Noah.

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

To overrun with water; inundate.

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

To overwhelm with a large number or amount; swamp

To fall in or as if in a cascade

A great flood or rain.

To occur in a sequence or successive stages

An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.

To cause to fall in or as if in a cascade

(firefighting) A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.

To cause to occur in a sequence or successive stages

(transitive) To flood with water.

A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.

(transitive) To overwhelm.

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

A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.).

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

Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction.

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

To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.

(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).

To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe.

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

An overwhelming number or amount;

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

A heavy rain

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

The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land;

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

Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid;

(intransitive) To occur as a causal sequence.

Charge someone with too many tasks

To vomit.

Fill or cover completely, usually with water

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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