chute

(Anglès)

Noun

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. 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.
4. An extension to a straightway on either the home stretch or the backstretch, to avoid having a turn at the start of the race.

Verb

To parachute.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ʃ(j)uːt/

Etimologia (Anglès)

From French chute.

Conceptes

paracaiguda

paracaigudes

🪂

Sinònims

parachute

🪂

slide

gutter

jump

waterfall

spout

sloping trough

tray

trough

rapid

fall

slideway

sluice

tube

water pipe

sky dive

straight flute

ascending pipe

elephant trunk

shaking trough

oscillating deliver

shaking launder

vibratory sluice

furnace pot

straight tube

steep channel

canal

canal rapids

cascade

channel

crater

filler

funnel

launder

pass over

shaft

shoot

skydive

strake

trunk