Meaning

6 senses
  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.

    Rutsche, Rinne, Schacht

    жёлобžólob

  2. A waterfall or rapid.

    Stromschnelle

  3. 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.

  4. An extension to a straightway on either the home stretch or the backstretch, to avoid having a turn at the start of the race.

  5. (informal)A parachute.

    Fallschirm, Schirm

    парашю́тparašút

  6. (broadly, slang)A spinnaker.

More definitions
  • sloping channel through which things can descend
  • rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall

Examples

10 sentences
  1. The trash chute got clogged up.

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  2. The trash chute is clogged and smells horrible.

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  3. Remember to throw your clothes down the clothes chute.

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  4. Don't throw large or bulky items down the garbage chute.

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  5. I dropped it into the garbage chute and forgot about it.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
trough or tube:
parachute:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
trough or tube:
waterfall or rapid:
parachute:

Origin

From French chute. Clipping of parachute.

From French chute.

Clipping of parachute.

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Forms

plural: chutes
Singularchute
Pluralchutes

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

19 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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