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The definition of a chute is a steep passage down or a waterfall.

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An example of a chute is a steep slide at a playground.

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noun

1. a waterfall
2. rapids in a river
an inclined or vertical trough or passage down which something may be slid or dropped
a steep slide, as for tobogganing

Origin: Fr, a fall < OFr cheute < cheoite, pp. of cheoir, to fall < L cadere: see case

noun

Informal parachute

Related Forms:

chutist noun

See chute in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

An inclined trough, passage, or channel through or down which things may pass.
A waterfall or rapid.
A parachute.

verb chut·ed, chut·ing, chutes

verb, transitive

To convey or deposit by a chute.

verb, intransitive

To go or descend by a chute.

Origin:

Origin: French, a fall

Origin: , alteration (influenced by chu)

Origin: of Old French cheoite

Origin: , from

Origin: feminine past participle of cheoir, to fall

Origin: , from Vulgar Latin *cadēre

Origin: , from Latin cadere; see kad- in Indo-European roots

Origin: . Sense 3, short for parachute

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