/ʃ(j)uːt/, /ʃɪu̯t/
- 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.
- 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.
- informalA 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 s”
“At first, Cyclops's chute began to Roman candle , but in another moment, it popped.”
“On the second operation the 1,000 mortar bombs were parachuted into the LZ on 125 chutes; all were on target but two roman candled which sent everyone diving for cover and necessitated the change of s”
- broadly, slangA spinnaker.
- informal, intransitiveTo parachute.
- countable, uncountableA surname.
- countable, uncountableA locality in the Shire of Pyrenees, Victoria, Australia.
- countable, uncountableA civil parish in eastern Wiltshire, England, which includes the settlements listed below.
Formschutes(plural) · chutes(present, singular, third-person) · chuting(participle, present) · chuted(participle, past) · chuted(past) · Chutes(plural)