chute

See also: Chute, chuté, and chutě

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃ(j)uːt/, /ʃɪu̯t/
• Rhymes: -uːt
• Homophone: shoot (most accents)

Etymology 1

From French chute.

Noun

chute (plural chutes)

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. A waterfall or rapid.
3. The pen in which an animal is confined before being released in a rodeo.

Derived terms

• bean chute
• chute dogging
• chute house
• cruising chute
• dirt chute
• drag chute
• drogue chute
• flood chute
• garbage chute
• head chute
• laundry chute
• out of the chute
• poop chute
• refuse chute
• squeeze chute
• straight out of the chute
• trash chute

 

Translations

trough or tube

• Bulgarian: улей (bg) m (ulej)
• Finnish: kuilu (fi), ränni (fi), kouru (fi)
• German: Rutsche (de) f, Rinne (de) f, Schacht (de) m, Rohr (de) n, Röhre (de) f, Schütte (de) f, Schurre (de) f, Treibgang m, Rollloch (de) n, Rutschbahn (de) f, Rodelbahn (de) f, Schussrinne f, Wasserrutsche f, Wasserrutschbahn f, Kanal (de) m
• Greek: καταπακτή (el) f (katapaktí)
• Portuguese: calha (pt) f
• Russian: жёлоб (ru) (žólob)
• Swedish: ränna (sv) c, kana (sv) c, slas (sv) c

waterfall or rapid

• Finnish: putous (fi)
• German: Stromschnelle (de) f

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• French: ^{(please verify)} toboggan (fr) m

Etymology 2

Clipping of parachute

Noun

chute (plural chutes)

1. (informal) A parachute.
2. (nautical, slang, by extension) A spinnaker.

Translations

parachute

• Bulgarian: парашут (bg) m (parašut)
• Finnish: laskuvarjo (fi), varjo (fi)
• German: Fallschirm (de) m, Schirm (de) m
• Portuguese: paraquedas (pt) m
• Russian: парашю́т (ru) m (parašút)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: па̏добра̄н m

  Roman: pȁdobrān (sh) m

• Spanish: paracaídas (es) m
• Swedish: fallskärm (sv) c
• Turkish: paraşüt (tr)

Verb

chute (third-person singular simple present chutes, present participle chuting, simple past and past participle chuted)

1. (informal, intransitive) To parachute.

Further reading

• “chute”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• chuet, teuch

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃyt/

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• Homophone: chut

Etymology 1

From a merger of Old French cheüe, chue (from Vulgar Latin *caduta) and cheoite (from Vulgar Latin cadecta), both feminine past participles of cheoir, whence modern choir (compare chu).

Noun

chute f (plural chutes)

1. fall

   Sa chute lui a été fatale. ― His fall was fatal.

2. fall, drop (e.g. in price)
3. fall, collapse, downfall

   Near-synonym: effondrement

   la chute de l’Empire romain d’Occident ― the fall of the Western Roman Empire

4. waterfall

   Synonym: cascade

   Nous ne sommes plus très loin des chutes du Niagara. ― We're not far from Niagara Falls.

5. punch line (conclusion of a joke or a story; the last words that bring the comic effect)

   Attendez la chute. ― Wait for the conclusion.

6. final part of an ensemble or a shape

   la chute des reins ― the bottom of the backside

Derived terms

• chute de tension
• chute d’eau
• chute libre
• chutes du Niagara
• point de chute

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

chute

1. inflection of chuter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “chute”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “chute” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “chute” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.

Norman

Adjective

chute (masculine chu)

1. (France) feminine singular of chu

   Je vouorreis byin avaer chute belle veiteure ! ― I would like to have this beautiful car !

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.te/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.tɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.tɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃu.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: chu‧te

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English shoot.

Noun

chute m (plural chutes)

1. (Brazil) kick

   Synonym: (Portugal) chuto

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

chute

1. inflection of chutar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “chute” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “chute” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “chute” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “chute” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “chute” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃute/ [ˈt͡ʃu.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ute
• Syllabification: chu‧te

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English shoot. Doublet of chuto.

Noun

chute m (plural chutes)

1. (slang) shot (of heroin)
2. (colloquial, El Salvador) a meddlesome person; a meddler

   Synonym: entrometido

Adjective

chute m or f (masculine and feminine plural chutes)

1. (colloquial, El Salvador) meddlesome, nosy

   Synonym: entrometido

Etymology 2

Verb

chute

1. inflection of chutar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Mayan shute.

Noun

chute m (plural chutes)

1. Alternative spelling of chucte

Further reading

• “chute”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014