chute
UK/ʃuːt//ʃut/
chute noun: 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.
Noun (1)
chute (plural chutes)
- 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.
- On reaching the slip, the barrow was wheeled off the truck onto a scaffolding gantry built out over the wall, and the concrete tipped down a corrugated iron chute on to a steel plate.1959 December, Richard Hope, “Narrow Gauge Landslip”, in Railway Magazine, page 866
- A waterfall or rapid.
- 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.
- An extension to a straightway on either the home stretch or the backstretch, to avoid having a turn at the start of the race.
Noun (2)
chute (plural chutes)
- A parachute.
- 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.2000, Callum Henderson, Asian Dawn, page 25
- At first, Cyclops's chute began to Roman candle , but in another moment, it popped.2007, J. Joseph Higgins, The Splat Conspiracy: America in Peril, page 145
- A spinnaker.
Verb
chute (third-person singular simple present chutes, present participle chuting, simple past and past participle chuted)
- To parachute.
Proper noun capitalized: Chute
Chute (countable and uncountable, plural Chutes)
chute meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
chute in Tamil
- சரிவோடை, சாய்வுக் குழாய், சரிவுக் கால்வாய், மிகைச் சரிவுக் கால்வாய், மென் சரிவோடை
chute in Bengali
- ঢালু পথ, স্লাইড, প্যারাশুট
chute in Malayalam
- channel, slide, shaft
- കുഴൽ, ചാല്, പുകക്കുഴൽ, പുകപ്പഴുത്, പാത്തി, വഴി
- (water) slide, flume
- വെള്ളച്ചാൽ, വഴുതിയോട്ടത്തിനുള്ള ഉപകരണം, കൃത്രിമവെള്ളച്ചാൽ
chute in Kannada
- ಚ್ಯುಟ್
More languagesFewer languages
- chute in Gujarati
- ચ્યુટે
- chute in Odia
- ଚ୍ଯ଼ୁଟ୍
Examples of chute in a sentence
- Our stowage disappeared down the chute, into the employee only cargo area, never to be seen again by man.
- At first, Cyclops's chute began to Roman candle, but in another moment, it popped.
- The pod chute doors were left open during the flooding and we have diving equipment.
Forms of chute
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | chutes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | chutes |
| present participle | chuting |
| past participle | chuted |
| past | chuted |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Chutes |
Origin of chute
From French chute.
Clipping of parachute.
Words formed from chute
- Chute Cadley
- Chute Forest
- Chute Standen
- Lower Chute
- Upper Chute
- ballute
- bean chute
- chute dogging
- chute house
- chuteless
- chutelike
- chute-the-chute
- cruising chute
- dirt chute
- drag chute
- drogue chute
- flood chute
- garbage chute
- head chute
- laundry chute
- out of the chute
- pod-chute
- poop chute
- refuse chute
- shoot-the-chute
- squeeze chute
- Stony Chute
- straight out of the chute
- trash chute
Phrases with chute
Words that rhyme with chute
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- cute
- moot
- overshoot
- recruit
- salute
- volute
- dispute
- impute
- pollute
- scoot
- snoot
- substitute
- depute
- dilute
- hoot
- loot
- pursuit
- reboot
- scute
- uproot
- Beirut
- cahoot
- Clute
- convolute
- lute
- zoot
- ablute
- Aleut
- argute
- astute
- beaut
- bruit
- compute
- coot
- doot
- en route
- glout
- jute
- minute
- newt
- poot
- refute
- repute
- resolute
- 'tute
- angel lute
- butte
- cheroot
Questions about chute
- What does chute mean?
- Chute means 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.
- What is chute in Tamil?
- Chute in Tamil is சரிவோடை, சாய்வுக் குழாய், சரிவுக் கால்வாய். See Chute meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is chute?
- Chute can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce chute?
- Chute is pronounced /ʃuːt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of chute?
- The plural of chute is chutes.
Words near chute in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: chute (page history and authors); Chute (page history and authors); chute (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chute (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chute (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); chute (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chute (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chute (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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