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chute

See also: Chute, chuté, and chutě

English

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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From French chute.

Noun

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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.
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Etymology 2

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Clipping of parachute

Noun

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chute (plural chutes)

  1. (informal) A parachute.
    • 2000, Callum Henderson, Asian Dawn, page 25:
      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.
    • 2007, J. Joseph Higgins, The Splat Conspiracy: America in Peril, page 145:
      At first, Cyclops's chute began to Roman candle , but in another moment, it popped.
    • 2019, David Taylor, The First Helicopter Boys:
      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.
  2. (nautical, slang, by extension) A spinnaker.
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Verb

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

  1. (informal, intransitive) To parachute.

Further reading

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  • “chute”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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French

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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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
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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chute

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

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Norman

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Adjective

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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

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  • Hyphenation: chu‧te

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English shoot.

Noun

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chute m (plural chutes)

  1. (Brazil) kick
    Synonym: (Portugal) chuto

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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chute

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

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English shoot. Doublet of chuto.

Noun

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chute m (plural chutes)

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

Adjective

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chute m or f (masculine and feminine plural chutes)

  1. (colloquial, El Salvador) meddlesome, nosy
    Synonym: entrometido

Etymology 2

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Verb

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chute

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

Etymology 3

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Borrowed from Mayan shute.

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chute m (plural chutes)

  1. Alternative spelling of chucte

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