name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Standard Lemma guide
chute
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ʃuːt/
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General-American: /ʃut/
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Northern-Ireland, Scotland: /ʃʉt/
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Wales: /ʃɪu̯t/
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rhymes with -uːt
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homophone: shoot (most accents)
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CMU ARPABET: SH UW1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A locality in the Shire of Pyrenees, Victoria, Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 3
A civil parish in eastern Wiltshire, England, which includes the settlements listed below.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
A waterfall or rapid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 7
An extension to a straightway on either the home stretch or the backstretch, to avoid having a turn at the start of the race.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, horse-racing, horseracing, horses, lifestyle, pets, racing, sports
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noun
Meaning 8
A parachute.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
Meaning 9
A spinnaker.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, slang
Topics: nautical, transport
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verb
Meaning 10
To parachute.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, intransitive
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noun
Meaning 11
sloping channel through which things can descend
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: slide, slideway, sloping trough
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: gutter, trough
Narrower terms: coal chute, runway, water chute
noun
Meaning 12
rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: parachute
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rescue equipment
Narrower terms: drogue, drogue chute, drogue parachute, parasail
verb
Meaning 13
jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: parachute, jump
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dive, plunge, plunk
Narrower terms: sky dive, skydive
History
Etymology
From French chute.
Clipping of parachute.
Across languages
Translations
60 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: улей (ulej) — trough or tube
- Finnish: kuilu — trough or tube
- Finnish: ränni — trough or tube
- Finnish: kouru — trough or tube
- French: toboggan — trough or tube
- Galician: calla — trough or tube
- Galician: quella — trough or tube
- German: Rutsche — trough or tube
- German: Rinne — trough or tube
- German: Schacht — trough or tube
- German: Rohr — trough or tube
- German: Röhre — trough or tube
- German: Schütte — trough or tube
- German: Schurre — trough or tube
- German: Treibgang — trough or tube
- German: Rollloch — trough or tube
- German: Rutschbahn — trough or tube
- German: Rodelbahn — trough or tube
- German: Schussrinne — trough or tube
- German: Wasserrutsche — trough or tube
- German: Wasserrutschbahn — trough or tube
- German: Kanal — trough or tube
- Greek: καταπακτή (katapaktí) — trough or tube
- Hungarian: csúszda — trough or tube
- Hungarian: csúsztató — trough or tube
- Hungarian: csúsztatópálya — trough or tube
- Hungarian: akna — trough or tube
- Hungarian: siklópálya — trough or tube
- Hungarian: ledobó — trough or tube
- Norwegian Bokmål: nedkastrør — trough or tube
- Portuguese: calha — trough or tube
- Russian: жёлоб (žólob) — trough or tube
- Swedish: ränna — trough or tube
- Swedish: kana — trough or tube
- Swedish: slas — trough or tube
- Finnish: putous — waterfall or rapid
- French: chute d'eau — waterfall or rapid
- French: cascade — waterfall or rapid
- Galician: doira — waterfall or rapid
- Galician: cadoiro — waterfall or rapid
- Galician: breixa — waterfall or rapid
- Galician: callón — waterfall or rapid
- Galician: freixa — waterfall or rapid
- German: Stromschnelle — waterfall or rapid
- Hungarian: vízesés — waterfall or rapid
- Hungarian: surrantó — waterfall or rapid
- Hungarian: vízmosás — waterfall or rapid
- Bulgarian: парашут (parašut) — parachute
- Finnish: laskuvarjo — parachute
- Finnish: varjo — parachute
- German: Fallschirm — parachute
- German: Schirm — parachute
- Hungarian: ejtőernyő — parachute
- Portuguese: paraquedas — parachute
- Russian: парашю́т (parašút) — parachute
- Serbo-Croatian: па̏добра̄н — parachute
- Serbo-Croatian: pȁdobrān — parachute
- Spanish: paracaídas — parachute
- Swedish: fallskärm — parachute
- Turkish: paraşüt — parachute
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