Definizione monolingua

waterfall

waterfall (third-person singular simple present waterfalls, present participle waterfalling, simple past and past participle waterfalled)

1. (intransitive) To fall like a waterfall.
   • 1994, Nora Roberts, Private Scandals, page 54:

     Rain ran off the bill of his fielders cap and waterfalled in front of his face.

   • 1999, Jane Yolen; Bruce Coville, Armageddon Summer?, page 79:

     Zondra, whose dirty-blond hair waterfalled above her head from a colorful tie, gave a snorting, horsey kind of laugh.

   • 2008, John Gardner, No Human Enemy?, page 156:

     they turned into the drive of The Manor with its red-brick front and the wonderful cloak of Virginia creeper waterfalling down between the windows.

waterfall (plural waterfalls)

1. A flow of water over the edge of a cliff.
2. (figuratively) A waterfall-like outpouring of liquid, smoke, etc.
   • A waterfall of mist from the open freezer.
3. (technical, computing, slang) Waterfall model
   • A very long duration project [...] had taken a whole group of people through a painful waterfall development process.

Definizione dizionario waterfall

	cascata
	waterfall-like outpouring
	flow of water over the edge of a cliff
	A perpendicular or steep descent of the water of a stream, as where it crosses an outcrop of resistant rock overhanging softer rock that has been eroded or flows over the edge of a plateau of cliffed coast.

caduta

cateratta

salto

Altri significati:

(figuratively) A waterfall-like outpouring of liquid, smoke, etc.

A flow of water over the edge of a cliff.

(intransitive) To fall like a waterfall.

(technical, computing, slang) Waterfall model