Chute
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chute¹
- /ʃuːt/ UK
- /ʃut/ US
- /ʃʉt/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
- /ʃɪu̯t/ Wales
Sounds like shoot (most accents) · Rhymes with -uːt
Where it comes from
From French chute.
noun chutes
- 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. On reaching the slip, the barrow was wheeled off the truck onto a scaffolding gantry built out over the wall, and the concrete tipped down a corrugated iron chute on to a steel plate.
- A waterfall or rapid.
- 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.
- An extension to a straightway on either the home stretch or the backstretch, to avoid having a turn at the start of the race.
chute²
- /ʃuːt/ UK
- /ʃut/ US
- /ʃʉt/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
- /ʃɪu̯t/ Wales
Sounds like shoot (most accents) · Rhymes with -uːt
Where it comes from
Clipping of parachute.
noun chutes
- A parachute. 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.
- A spinnaker.
verb chutes · chuting · chuted
- To parachute.
Chute³
proper noun Chutes
- A surname.
- A locality in the Shire of Pyrenees, Victoria, Australia.
- A civil parish in eastern Wiltshire, England, which includes the settlements listed below.
