What does "chute" mean?

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.

What is a synonym for "chute"?

Common synonyms include: parachute, avenue, bank, bevel, bezel, blowhole.

Chute

//ʃ(j)uːt// name, noun, verb, slang

name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun

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
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
sloping channel through which things can descend wordnet
4
A waterfall or rapid.
5
A spinnaker. broadly, slang

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6
rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall wordnet
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.
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
To parachute. informal, intransitive
2
jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute wordnet

Proper Noun

1
A surname. countable, uncountable
2
A locality in the Shire of Pyrenees, Victoria, Australia. countable, uncountable
3
A civil parish in eastern Wiltshire, England, which includes the settlements listed below. countable, uncountable