chute

See also: Chute, chuté, and chutě

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃ(j)uːt/
• Rhymes: -uːt
• Homophone: shoot

Etymology 1

From French chute.

Noun

chute (plural chutes)

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.
2. A waterfall or rapid.
3. The pen in which an animal is confined before being released in a rodeo.

Derived terms

• bean chute
• chute dogging
• chute house
• cruising chute
• dirt chute
• drag chute
• drogue chute
• flood chute
• garbage chute
• head chute
• laundry chute
• out of the chute
• poop chute
• refuse chute
• squeeze chute
• straight out of the chute
• trash chute

 

Translations

trough or tube

• Bulgarian: улей (bg) m (ulej)
• Finnish: kuilu (fi), ränni (fi), kouru (fi)
• German: Rutsche (de) f, Rinne (de) f, Schacht (de) m, Rohr (de) n, Röhre (de) f
• Greek: καταπακτή (el) f (katapaktí)
• Portuguese: calha (pt) f
• Swedish: ränna (sv) c, kana (sv) c, slas (sv) c
• Russian: жёлоб (ru) (žólob)

waterfall or rapid

• Finnish: putous (fi)

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• French: ^{(please verify)} toboggan (fr) m

Etymology 2

Short for parachute.

Noun

chute (plural chutes)

1. (informal) A parachute.
2. (nautical, slang, by extension) A spinnaker.

Translations

parachute

• Bulgarian: парашут (bg) m (parašut)
• Finnish: laskuvarjo (fi), varjo (fi)
• German: Fallschirm (de) m
• Portuguese: paraquedas (pt) m
• Russian: парашю́т (ru) m (parašút)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: па̏добра̄н m

  Roman: pȁdobrān (sh) m

• Spanish: paracaídas (es) m
• Swedish: fallskärm (sv) c
• Turkish: paraşüt (tr)

Verb

chute (third-person singular simple present chutes, present participle chuting, simple past and past participle chuted)

1. (informal, intransitive) To parachute.

Further reading

• chute at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• chuet, teuch

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃyt/

• audio

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• Homophone: chut

Etymology 1

From a merger of Old French cheüe, chue (from Vulgar Latin *caduta) and cheoite (from Vulgar Latin cadecta), both feminine past participles of cheoir, whence modern choir (compare chu).

Noun

chute f (plural chutes)

1. fall

   Sa chute lui a été fatale. ― His fall was fatal.

2. fall, drop (e.g. in price)
3. waterfall

   Nous ne sommes plus très loin des chutes du Niagara. ― We're not far from Niagara Falls.

   Synonym: cascade

4. punch line, conclusion (of a joke or a story, i.e. the last words that bring the comic effect or the conclusion)

   Attendez la chute (de cette blague) ― Wait for the conclusion (of the joke)

5. final part of an ensemble or a shape

   La chute des rein ― the bottom of the backside (in the human body)

Derived terms

• chute de tension
• chute d'eau
• chute libre
• chutes du Niagara
• point de chute

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

chute

1. inflection of chuter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “chute”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “chute” in Dictionnaire Français en ligne Larousse.
• “chute” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.

Norman

Adjective

chute (masculine chu)

1. (France) feminine singular of chu

   Je vouorreis byin avaer chute belle veiteure ! ― I would like to have this beautiful car !

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.t(ɨ)/

• Hyphenation: chu‧te

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English shoot.

Noun

chute m (plural chutes)

1. (Brazil) kick

   Synonym: (Portugal) chuto

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

chute

1. inflection of chutar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “chute” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “chute” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “chute” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
• “chute” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “chute” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃute/ [ˈt͡ʃu.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ute
• Syllabification: chu‧te

Noun

chute m (plural chutes)

1. (slang) shot (of heroin)

Verb

chute

1. inflection of chutar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “chute”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014