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chute
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[shoot] 
noun, verb, chut⋅ed, chut⋅ing.–noun
| 1. | an inclined channel, as a trough, tube, or shaft, for conveying water, grain, coal, etc., to a lower level. |
| 2. | a waterfall or steep descent, as in a river. |
| 3. | a water slide, as at an amusement park. |
| 4. | a steep slope, as for tobogganing. |
–verb (used with object)
| 5. | to move or deposit, by or as if by means of a chute: The dock had facilities for chuting grain directly into the hold of a vessel. |
–verb (used without object)
—Idiom| 6. | to descend by or as if by means of a chute. |
| 7. | out of the chute, at the start; at the very beginning: The new business made mistakes right out of the chute and failed within a year. |
chute
2 [shoot] noun, verb, chut⋅ed, chut⋅ing.–noun
| 1. | a parachute. |
–verb (used without object)
| 2. | to descend from the air by or as if by a parachute. |
–verb (used with object)
| 3. | to drop from an aircraft by means of a parachute: Supplies were chuted to the snowbound mountain climbers. |
Origin:
1915–20, Americanism; by shortening
1915–20, Americanism; by shortening
Fall, The
–noun
| French, La Chute), a novel (1957) by Albert Camus. |
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| chute (shōōt) n.
v. tr. To convey or deposit by a chute. v. intr. To go or descend by a chute. [French, a fall, alteration (influenced by chu) of Old French cheoite, from feminine past participle of cheoir, to fall, from Vulgar Latin *cadēre, from Latin cadere; see kad- in Indo-European roots. Sense 3, short for parachute.] |
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Chute
Chute\, n. [F. chute, prop. a fall.]1. 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. 2. See Shoot.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : Chute
Spanish:
conducto,
German:
der Abfallschacht,
Japanese:
落しどい
chute
1725, Amer.Eng., "fall of water," from Fr. chute, from O.Fr. cheoite pp. of cheoir "to fall," from L. cadere (see case (1)). Meaning "narrow passage for cattle, etc." first recorded 1881.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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