Rapid vs. Cataract: What's the Difference?

Rapid and Cataract Definitions
Rapid
Moving, acting, or occurring with great speed. ]
Cataract
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.
Rapid
Very swift or quick.
A rapid stream
Rapid growth
Rapid improvement
Cataract
A large or high waterfall.
Rapid
Steep, changing altitude quickly. (of a slope)
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Cataract
A great downpour; a deluge.
Rapid
Needing only a brief exposure time. (of a lens, plate, film, etc.)
Cataract
(Medicine) Opacity of the lens or capsule of the eye, causing impairment of vision or blindness.
Rapid
Violent, severe.
Cataract
(obsolete) A waterspout.
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Rapid
Happy.
Cataract
A large waterfall; steep rapids in a river.
The cataracts on the Nile helped to compartment Upper Egypt.
Rapid
Rapidly.
Cataract
A flood of water.
Rapid
A rough section of a river or stream which is difficult to navigate due to the swift and turbulent motion of the water.
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Cataract
(figuratively) An overwhelming downpour or rush.
His cataract of eloquence
Rapid
(dated) A burst of rapid fire.
Cataract
(pathology) A clouding of the lens in the eye leading to a decrease in vision.
Rapid
(chess) rapid chess
Cataract
A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall.
Rapid
Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.
Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels.
Cataract
A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; - sometimes called dashpot.
Rapid
Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession.
Cataract
Clouding of the natural lens of the eye
Rapid
Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.
Cataract
A large waterfall; violent rush of water over a precipice
Rapid
The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; sometimes called whitewater; - usually used in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence.
Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast,The rapids are near, and the daylight's past.
Rapid
A part of a river where the current is very fast
Rapid
Done or occurring in a brief period of time;
A rapid rise through the ranks
Rapid
Characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed;
A rapid movment
A speedy car
A speedy errand boy