Chute

Quick meaning: Chute is a noun meaning A waterfall or rapid.

Meaning

A waterfall or rapid.

More Meanings

1. (horse racing) An extension to a straightway on either the home stretch or the backstretch, to avoid having a turn at the start of the race.
2. (informal) A parachute.
3. (nautical, slang, by extension) A spinnaker.
4. (informal, intransitive) To parachute.
5. 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.
6. 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.

Example Sentences

At first, Cyclops's chute began to Roman candle , but in another moment, it popped.

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.

On the second operation the 1,000 mortar bombs were parachuted into the LZ on 125 chutes; all were on target but two roman candled which sent everyone diving for cover and necessitated the change of some knickers.

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.

Word Forms

• chutes
• chuting
• chuted

Synonyms for chute

Depending on context, synonyms include parachute, slide.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include parachute, slide, tank, canal, slot, trapdoor.

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