chute

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chute
n. steep channel, steep slide used to convey things to a lower level, shaft; waterfall, cascade

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Chute
Chute may refer to:
  • Chute (gravity), a channel down which falling materials are guided
  • Chute (in North America), a cattle race, a channel for handling and sorting farm animals
  • Squeeze chute, a cage for restraining a farm animal
  • Chute (racecourse), a projection extending from either end of an oval-shaped racecourse
  • Parachute, a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag
  • Pilot chute, a small auxiliary parachute

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Chute! (television programme)
Chute! was a British children's television series broadcast on CBBC and presented by Ross Lee. It was originally broadcast between September and December 2007 and was cancelled after its first series. Lee played a version of himself trapped inside a rubbish tip at BBC Television Centre containing approximately 83,000 video cassettes covering the floor of the room.

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chute

Noun
1. rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
(synonym) parachute
(hypernym) rescue equipment
(hyponym) drogue, drogue chute, drogue parachute
(part-meronym) canopy
2. sloping channel through which things can descend
(synonym) slide, slideway, sloping trough
(hypernym) gutter, trough
(hyponym) coal chute
(part-meronym) skid


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chute
nf. fall, drop; downfall, falling; slide, tumble; descent; anticlimax; plunge; chute
 
chuter
v. tumble-down, tumble, tug

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chute
nm. shot, goal
 
chutar
v. shoot