chute

See also: Chute, chuté, and shute

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

• out of the chute
• straight out of the chute

Translations

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
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• Greek: καταπακτή (el) f (katapaktí)
• Russian: жёлоб (ru) (žólob)

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• French: ^{(please verify)} toboggan (fr) m
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Etymology 2

Short for parachute.

Noun

chute (plural chutes)

1. (informal) A parachute.

Translations

parachute

• Bulgarian: парашут (bg) m (parašut)
• Finnish: laskuvarjo (fi)
• German: Fallschirm (de) m
• Portuguese: paraquedas (pt) m
• Russian: парашю́т (ru) (parašút)
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• Serbo-Croatian: padobran (sh)
• Spanish: paracaídas (es) m
• Swedish: fallskärm (sv) c
• Turkish: paraşüt (tr)

Verb

1. (informal, intransitive) To parachute.

Further reading

• “chute”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• chuet, teuch

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French

Etymology

From a refashioning of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French cheüe, chue (from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *caduta) based on cheoite (corresponding to an analogous Vulgar Latin form *cadecta), feminine past participle of cheoir, the older form of choir. Compare chu, past participle of choir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃyt/

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• Homophones: chut

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.

4. 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)

Synonyms

• (waterfall): cascade

Verb

chute

1. first-person singular present indicative of chuter
2. third-person singular present indicative of chuter
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of chuter
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of chuter
5. second-person singular imperative of chuter

Further reading

• “chute”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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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 !

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Portuguese

Noun

chute m (plural chutes)

1. kick

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Spanish

Verb

chute

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of chutar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of chutar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of chutar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of chutar.