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.

  2. The trash chute is clogged and smells horrible.

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

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

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

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

17 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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