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Definition: Chute |
ChuteNoun1. Rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall. 2. Sloping channel through which things can descend. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "chute" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A smooth channel, paved or made of concrete, which causes supercritical flow. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Artificial waterway of wood or metal, sometimes temporary. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | A prepared way, often trough-shaped, either on the surface of the ground or built up of timber or other material, down, along, and up which timber is transported, either by power or by gravity; i. e. a type of conveyor. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | An arrangement for guiding workpieces from the container to a processing station. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Arrangement which allows charging or discharging by the material's own weight, generally in the form of an open sloping channel. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Military & Defense | An assembly consisting of canopy, risers, bridles, deployment bag, and, in some cases, a pilot chute. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A channel or shaft underground, or an inclined trough aboveground, through which ore falls or is shot by gravity from a higher to a lower level. Also spelled shoot. b. A crosscut connecting a gangway with a heading. c. A ditch or inclined timber through which the overflow water or mud from a borehole is conducted from the collar of the hole to the sump. The chute may be fitted with baffles and screens to cause the cuttings to settle before reaching the sump. Syn:canal; ditch d. A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward within a vein (ore shoot). See also:chimney; shoot. e. A trough operated mechanically in loading coal underground. Syn:rock chute f. A string of rich ore in a lode (used instead of shoot) g. Stockpile withdrawing system, such as a belt conveyor h. A metal trough in a breaker, along which the coal slides by gravity i. A steep, three-sided steel tray for the passage of coal or ore from a conveyor into mine cars. It is designed to minimize degradation and spillage of materials. See also:loading chute j. Ore pass connecting a stope with the haulage level. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ChuteSynonyms: parachute (n), slide (n), slideway (n), sloping trough (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
River | Water spout, water fall; cascade, force, foss; lin, linn; ghyll, Niagara; cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm; debacle, inundation, deluge; chute, washout. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Chute |
| English words defined with "chute": coal chute ♦ flinty, flume, Flutter wheel ♦ granitic ♦ loading ♦ slide, snow blower, snow thrower ♦ unyielding ♦ water chute. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "chute": chute blaster, chute checker, CHUTE LOADER, chute operator, chute tapper, clothes chute, core-type spiral chute, counter chute ♦ discharge chute ♦ finger chute, free jet chute ♦ grizzly chute ♦ laundry chute, linen chute, loading chute ♦ measuring chute ♦ nonsegregating chute ♦ parabolic chute, picking chute ♦ reserve chute ♦ screen chute, screen loading chute, slant chute, slate chute ♦ transfer chute ♦ wet chute. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "chute": Shoot. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Chute" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (anticlimax, chute, descent, downfall, droop, drop, fall, falling, jolt, overthrow, overturn, plunge, slide, slip, spilling, tumble), Portuguese (kick, lie, shot). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Into the garbage chute, flyboy (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas) | |
Movie/TV Titles | La Chute d'un corps (1973) Point de chute (1970) La Chute de la maison Usher (1928) The Scandalous Boys and the Fire Chute (1908) Une chute de cinq étages (1906) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | STS-66 Atlantis Landing and Chute Deployment at Edwards. Credit: NASA. |  | SR-71 Landing with Drag Chute. Credit: NASA. |
 | Remnants of an avalanche chute near SW end of Port Frederick. For scale note people walking in front. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | The basket load of fish is being brought out of the water and will be placed directly over the hole in the foreground. The fish will be deposited in the hole which has a chute that leads directly to the freezer compartments. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | After the basket is unloaded, the fish are channeled into a chute that leads to a freezer compartment. Here the fish are dropping into it. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Dropsonde chute and infra-red temperature sensor. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |
 | Soil Conservationist Gale Nobes in established geotextile reinforced chute. Newaygo County, Michigan. Credit: Fred Gasper. |  | Concrete chute spillway in dam built as part of a watershed project for flood control and erosion control. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
 | Loading chute, Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey. |  | Rogue River - Rainie Falls, wild section. Middle chute at 950 cfs. Credit: Louise Austermuchle. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Chute" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.69% of the time. "Chute" is used about 111 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.69% | 104 | 31,955 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.31% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 111 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "chute" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Chute | Last name | 1,000 | 12,662 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "chute": back chute ♦ clothes chute ♦ coal chute ♦ dorsal chute ♦ drogue chute ♦ drop chute ♦ escape chute ♦ free jet chute ♦ garbage chute ♦ laundry chute ♦ linen chute ♦ Little Chute ♦ log chute ♦ ore chute ♦ parabolic chute ♦ Red Chute ♦ refuse chute ♦ reserve chute ♦ rubbish chute ♦ spiral chute ♦ stern chute ♦ toboggan chute ♦ water chute ♦ wet chute. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "chute": chute-the-chute, chute-the-chutes. | |
Ending with "chute": chute-the-chute, junk-chute, pilot-chute, rubbish-chute. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
chute | 101 | chute kona | 9 |
cheveux chute de | 84 | cattle chute hydraulic | 9 |
chute and ladders | 84 | little chute | 9 |
cheveux chute des | 69 | chute lake | 8 |
laundry chute | 46 | box chute | 8 |
little chute wi | 39 | construction chute | 8 |
cattle chute | 31 | chute garbage | 7 |
boxe chute | 28 | chute lake resort | 7 |
power chute | 25 | camping chute fraser | 7 |
chute niagara | 25 | chute sept | 7 |
chute montmorency | 25 | cattle chute squeeze | 7 |
chute poop | 25 | carolyn chute | 7 |
chute squeeze | 17 | cattle chute head working | 7 |
trash chute | 17 | debris chute | 7 |
roping chute | 16 | chute les niagara | 7 |
bucking chute | 14 | chute wilkinson | 6 |
chute du niagara | 13 | mail chute | 6 |
chute door laundry | 10 | chute ladders park | 6 |
chute magnet | 10 | chute poop porn | 6 |
chute park provincial | 10 | la chute | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "chute"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ujëvarë (cascade, cataract, fall, Linn, water power, waterfall), shpatë e rrëpirë, rrëpirë (abruptness, escarpment, scar, scarp, steep), prapambetje (arrears, backwardness, blizzard, inferiority, lag), govatë (cavity, depression, dough-trough, eye socket, eyehole, hollow, manger, seed-can, shoot, stall, tray, trough, washtub). (various references) | |
Arabic | منحدر (aslope, decline, declivity, descending, descent, dipped, downgrade, downhill, downward, inclined, slanted, slope, sloped, sloping, talus), مظلة (parachute, sunshade, umbrella), نهر (flow, river, strand, stream, wadi), سقوط (descent, downfall, drop, falling, fallout, incidence, jolt, overthrow, overturn, plunge, spilling, tumble), أنبوب مائل, شلال (cataract, falls, waterfall). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стръмен наклон, улей за спускане на трупи, шахта (pit, shaft, trunk, well), водопад (cataract, fall, falls, waterfall), бързо течение на река, парашут (parachute), детска пързалка. (various references) | |
Chinese | 滑". (various references) | |
Czech | skluzný žlab, skluzavka (slide), skluz (overrun, slippage), padák (parachute), klouzaèka (slide). (various references) | |
Danish | udkasterrør (discharge pipe), tømmerrende (dry slide, shoot, slide, slip), slidske (pan, trolley pan), skakt (adit, collimator shaft, core, cored hole, discharge pipe, gallery, hopper, lifting hole, plumb-line shaft, shaft, slot, tower, tunnel, void, well), sågodstragt (seed port), rutsche, rende (apron, channel, cutting, diversion cut, drain, duct, furrow, glass receiver, grip, groove, gut, gutter, lead, rill, scoop, sulcus, tin, tray, tray bar, trench, trough), nedstyrtningsskakt (pan, trolley pan), glidebane, glide (coasting, idling, sliding, to slide), faldskærm (parachute), føderende. (various references) | |
Dutch | valscherm (parachute), valgoot, val (fall, snare, trap), uitwerpbuis (discharge pipe), toevoergoot, stroomgoot, stortgoot (bagger, bagging attachment, bagging spout attachment, sacking spout, shoot, tip chute, tip shoot), parachute (parachute), houtglijbaan (dry slide, shoot, slide, slip), glijgoot (seed port), droge glijgoot (dry slide, shoot, slide, slip), afvoerpijp (discharge pipe, downpipe, drain, eduction pipe, overboard discharge, spill pipe, spout, waste pipe). (various references) | |
Farsi | مخفف کلمه پاراشوت , ناودان یامجرای سرازیر, زوال (Consumption, Decadence, Decay, Decline, Downfall, Fall, Lapse), انحطاط (Decadence, Decline, Degeneration, Downfall, Downhill, Retrogradation, Slough), شیب تندرودخانه . (various references) | |
Finnish | syöttökouru, syöksyruuhi ylä-ja ala-altaan välissä, ruuhi (flat-bottom rowboat, punt), luisu (skidding), liukurata (slide), laskuvarjo (parachute), laskukouru (launder), kouru (channel, gutter, spout). (various references) | |
French | chute. (various references) | |
German | rutsche (slide), Rinne (channel, furrow, gap, groove, gully, gutter, sluice), müllschlucker (refuse chute, rubbish chute), fallschirm (parachute, umbrella). (various references) | |
Greek | αλεξίπτωτο (parachute). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מ'לש" (sled, sledge, slide, toboggan), תלל", אש" (cascade, cataract, rapid, waterfall). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vízesés (cascade, cataract, fall, falls, waterfall), csúszda (pull hole, shoot, slide), zuhatag (cascade, cataract, falls, race, rapid, rapids, torrent), ejtőernyő (parachute), csúsztató (slide). (various references) | |
Indonesian | peluncuran (blast off, launching), air terjun (cataract, waterfall). (various references) | |
Italian | scivolo (sashays, slide, slipway). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ウェーバーの法則 (on-deck batter's circle, rag, taking a pitch, wafer, wafers, waist, waist bag, waist nipper, waist pouch, waistcoat, waistline, wait, waiter, waiting circle, waiting game, waiting room, waiting system, waitress, Wales, walk rally, walk through, walkathon, walkie-lookie, walkie-talkie, walking dictionary, walking shoes, Walkman, war cry, war game, ware, -ware, warehouse, warm, warming, warming-up, warm-up, warning lamp, waste ball, water chute, water closet, water hazard, water polo, watercolor, watercooler, waterfall, waterfront, watermelon, waterproof, watertight, wave, wave-front, way, weapon, wear, weather, weathercock, weatherstrip molding, web, Weber, Weber's law, wedding, wedding bell, wedding cake, wedding dress, wedding march, wedding ring, wedding veil, wedeling, wedge heel, wedge sole, weight, weight lifting, weight training, welcome, well-done, west, West Coast, West End, West Point, West Side, West Virginia, western, Western grip, Western league, Western music, Westinghouse, wet, wet core, wet cut, wet suit, worm gear). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ウォーターシュート (water chute). (various references) | |
Korean | 자동활송장치. (various references) | |
Manx | shliawinane (glide, runner, shoot, slide, slipway), lhieggey ushtey (cascade, waterfall), eas (cascade, cataract, shoot, waterfall). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utechay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | corredeira (rip tide), cano inclinado, cano condutor (seed port), canal de transporto, canal de grande declividade, calha de extracção (dry slide, shoot, slide, slip), calha (channel, eaves, flume, furrow, gutter, hollow, lade, race, runway, sluice, spout, trough, wrinkle), tubo de descarga (wastepipe), queda de água (waterfall), queda (cloud-burst, come-down, debacle, decay, descent, downfall, fall, fallback, falling, letdown, mucker, overthrow, prolapse, purler, spill, tumble, tumbling, upset), pista inclinada para escoamento de madeira (dry slide, shoot, slide, slip), pára-quedas (umbrella), escorrega (glacis), escoadouro (gully, overfall), deslizador (slipper). (various references) | |
Romanian | cascadã (cascade, fall, falls, ripple, waterfall), cãdere de apã (fall, plop, waterfall), rostogol, plan înclinat (incline), paraşutã (parachute), pantã (acclivity, cliff, declension, declivity, descent, dip, downhill, fall, glacis, gradient, hade, inclination, incline, ramp, slant, slope, splay, tilt, up), glisierã (guide, shoot, slide), şipot (spring). (various references) | |
Russian | стремнина (rapids), скат (gradient, incline, ramp, skat, slope, staple), спуск (alighting, climb down, descend, descent, discharge, down, downhill), транспортировать лоток;желоб, крутой скат, воронка (funnel, shellcrater), мусоропровод, млечный сок (chyle, latex, milk), желоб (canal, chamfer, channel, gutter, outfall, race, run, rut, shute, spout, trough, valley), лоток (tray, trough), покатый настил. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | slap (cascade, overfall, riffle, waterfall), rečni brzak, padobran (parachute), šaht (manhole). (various references) | |
Spanish | tobogán (helter-skelter, shoot, slide, toboggan). (various references) | |
Swedish | ränna (channel, furrow, groove, gully, gutter, run, shoot, sluice, thrust), glidbana (slide). (various references) | |
Turkish | paraşüt (canopy, parachute), oluk (chamfer, channel, chase, conduit, flute, gangway, gouge, groove, gully, gully drain, gutter, rabbet, riffle, runnel, slot, spline, throat, trough), kayılan yer (chute-the-chute, chute-the-chutes), kanal (canal, chamfer, channel, conduit, culvert, dike, drain, duct, flume, gullet, gully, meatus, pass, passage, station, vessel), kızak pisti (toboggan chute, toboggan slide), akıntı (afflux, circulation, current, drift, effluence, effluent, flow, flux, issue, race, stream), çağlayan (cascade, cataract, fall, waterfall). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | схил (bevel, declension, decline, declivity, descent, down grade, fall, grade, incidence, lean, pitch, shelving, side, skew, slant), уровище, скат (devil fish, skate, slope, tobacco-box), спуск (alighting, climb down, descent, down, downhill, way down), спад (decline, degression, descent, fall, ramp, relaxing, sag, wane), круча (bluff, cliff), крутий схил, занепад (anticlimax, blight, decadence, decadency, decay, declension, declination, decline, degeneracy, degeneration, depression, down grade, nadir, sunset, waste, wasting), жолоб (apron, canal, chamfer, channel, flume, fuller, gutter, outfall, penstock, rut), провалля (chasm), парашут (parachute). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cầu trượt, dốc lao, đường trượt. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "chute": chuted, chutes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "chute": parachute. (additional references) | |
Words containing "chute": parachuted, parachutes. (additional references) | |
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"Chute" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: achute, Ceuto, Chato, chatte, chaude, Chetta, Chitepo, Chota, chote, choti, Choto, Chott, chu, Chuchu, chudde, chude, chudet, Chue, chuge, chuie, Chule, chure, chut, chuted, chuter, chuts, chutter, chuve, coute, Crute, cutay, cutee, cuten, cuteo, cutex, Ghuta, hute, Hutte, Kahuta, Khote, khuge, Uchte. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "chute" (pronounced shuw"t) |
| 3 | sh uw" t | shoot, Shute. |
| 2 | -uw" t | acute, astute, boot, Brut, brute, Bute, Butte, cahoot, commute, compute, coot, cute, impute, dilute, dispute, disrepute, flute, fruit, hoot, jute, loot, lute, moot, mute, newt, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, reroute, root, salute, scoot, subacute, suit, toot, uproot. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: teuch. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-t-u" | |
-1 letter: cute, etch. | |
-2 letters: cue, cut, ecu, eth, het, hue, hut, the. | |
-3 letters: eh, et, he, uh, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-t-u" | |
+1 letter: chuted, chutes, touche, tusche. | |
+2 letters: butcher, butches, catechu, chateau, chetrum, chunter, chutnee, chutney, couther, couthie, cutches, hutched, hutches, ketchup, mutches, outecho, retouch, touched, toucher, touches, tusches, unteach. | |
+3 letters: beechnut, butchers, butchery, catechus, cathouse, chaqueta, chateaus, chateaux, chaunted, chaunter, checkout, chestful, chestnut, chetrums, chuffest, chunters, chutnees, chutneys, clutched, clutches, couthest, couthier, crutched, crutches, cultches, cushiest, cutchery, deathcup, dutchmen, euphotic, gauchest, grutched, grutches, huckster, ketchups, lecythus, mustache, nautches, outcheat, outchide, outreach, putsches, quitches, ruthenic, scouther, scutched, scutcher, scutches, selcouth, smutched, smutches, soutache, theurgic, touchers, touchier, trauchle, tuckahoe, unchaste, unclothe, wauchted. | |
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