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Chute

//ʃ(j)uːt// name, noun, verb, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A locality in the Shire of Pyrenees, Victoria, Australia. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A civil parish in eastern Wiltshire, England, which includes the settlements listed below. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.
  2. 2
    A parachute. informal

    "Yet the initial IMF rescue plan was far from the parachute which it professed to be – the chute did open briefly but only for it to "Roman candle", the hapless victim left to plummet to earth with a sickening thud."

  3. 3
    sloping channel through which things can descend wordnet
  4. 4
    A waterfall or rapid.
  5. 5
    A spinnaker. broadly, slang
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  1. 6
    rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall wordnet
  2. 7
    A pen or passageway to constrain the movement of an animal, such as livestock being loaded for transport; the pen in which an animal is confined before being released in a rodeo.
  3. 8
    An extension to a straightway on either the home stretch or the backstretch, to avoid having a turn at the start of the race.
Verb
  1. 1
    To parachute. informal, intransitive
  2. 2
    jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French chute.

Etymology 2

Clipping of parachute.

Etymology 3

Clipping of parachute.

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