chute
pronunciation
How to pronounce chute in British English:
UK [ʃu:t]
How to pronounce chute in American English:
US [ʃut]
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- Noun:
- rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
- sloping channel through which things can descend
Word Origin
- chute (n.1)
- 1725, American English, "fall of water" (earlier shoot, 1610s), from French chute "fall," from Old French cheoite "a fall," fem. past participle of cheoir "to fall," from Latin cadere (see case (n.1)). Meaning "inclined tube, trough" is from 1804; that of "narrow passage for cattle, etc." first recorded 1881. In North America, absorbing some senses of similar-sounding shoot (n.1).
- chute (n.2)
- short for parachute (n.), attested from 1920.
Example
- 1. 1500 M. open the chute !
- 2. Must not conflict with existing internal structures ( seat , chute compartments etc ) .
- 3. Chute opens any lower than that and you 're dead .
- 4. But against the vast expanse of the sky , the chute looked very small .
- 5. The entire jump should take a little more than 15 minutes , with five and a half minutes of free-fall and 10 minutes with his chute deployed .