chute
IPA: ʃˈut
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.
- A waterfall or rapid.
- The pen in which an animal is confined before being released in a rodeo.
- (informal) A parachute.
- (nautical, slang, by extension) A spinnaker.
- A surname.
verb
- (informal, intransitive) To parachute.
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Examples of "chute" in Sentences
- 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.
- The chute is deployed when a mechanism in the plane's aft bulkhead door jettisons the plane's tailcone.
- 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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