Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An inclined trough, passage, or channel through or down which things may pass.
- noun A narrow, usually fenced passage for horses or cattle.
- noun A usually straight extension of one side of an oval racetrack, used to start certain longer races so that the finish line can be kept on a straightaway in front of the stands or clubhouse.
- noun A gated stall that is used to hold and release animals into an open area, especially horses and steers being ridden in a rodeo.
- noun A waterfall or rapid.
- noun A parachute.
- intransitive verb To convey or deposit by a chute.
- intransitive verb To go or descend by a chute.
- idiom (out of the chute) At the very beginning; right away.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To send down or through a chute, as logs.
- noun An inclined trough or tube along which things can slide from a higher to a lower level; a shoot.
- noun A waterfall or rapid; a fall over which timber is floated.
- noun An opening in a dam through which to float timber.
- noun In Louisiana and along the Mississippi, a bayou or side channel; also, a narrow passage between two islands, or between an island and the shore.
- noun In mining. See
shoot .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun See
Shoot .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun 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. - noun
parachute
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun sloping channel through which things can descend
- verb jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
- noun rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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:: Audio File:: Listen to Jean-Marc pronounce the French word "chute"
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:: Audio File:: Listen to Jean-Marc pronounce the French word "chute"
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:: Audio File:: Listen to Jean-Marc pronounce the French word "chute"
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: Audio File :: Listen to Jean-Marc pronounce the French word "chute"
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: Audio File :: Listen to Jean-Marc pronounce the French word "chute"
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The chute is deployed when a mechanism in the plane's aft bulkhead door jettisons the plane's tailcone.
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A planned "Batcave" - like chute from the surface was nixed due to budget concerns.
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First, it was much smaller than the main chute; and secondly, the reserve chute for this particular Army Infantry configuration was worn on the stomach.
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The chute is deployed when the plane's tailcone is jettisoned.
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A planned "Batcave" - like chute from the surface was nixed due to budget concerns.
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