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noun, verb, chut⋅ed, chut⋅ing.| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
[shoot] noun, verb, chut⋅ed, chut⋅ing.| 1. | a parachute. |
| 2. | to descend from the air by or as if by a parachute. |
| 3. | to drop from an aircraft by means of a parachute: Supplies were chuted to the snowbound mountain climbers. |
| French, La Chute), a novel (1957) by Albert Camus. |
| 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.] |