chute

See also: Chute, chuté, and chutě

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃ(j)uːt/, /ʃɪu̯t/
• Rhymes: -uːt
• Homophone: shoot (most accents)

• Audio (US):

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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

• ballute
• bean chute
• chute dogging
• chute house
• chuteless
• chutelike
• 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)
• Galician: calla (gl) f, quella (gl) f
• German: Rutsche (de) f, Rinne (de) f, Schacht (de) m, Rohr (de) n, Röhre (de) f, Schütte (de) f, Schurre (de) f, Treibgang m, Rollloch (de) n, Rutschbahn (de) f, Rodelbahn (de) f, Schussrinne f, Wasserrutsche f, Wasserrutschbahn f, Kanal (de) m
• Greek: καταπακτή (el) f (katapaktí)
• Hungarian: csúszda (hu), csúsztató (hu), csúsztatópálya, akna (hu), siklópálya (hu), ledobó
• Portuguese: calha (pt) f
• Russian: жёлоб (ru) (žólob)
• Swedish: ränna (sv) c, kana (sv) c, slas (sv) c

waterfall or rapid

• Finnish: putous (fi)
• Galician: doira (gl) f, cadoiro (gl) m, breixa (gl) f, callón (gl) m, freixa (gl) f
• German: Stromschnelle (de) f
• Hungarian: vízesés (hu), surrantó, vízmosás (hu)

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Translations to be checked

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

Etymology 2

Clipping of parachute

Noun

chute (plural chutes)

1. (informal) A parachute.
   • 2000, Callum Henderson, Asian Dawn, page 25:

     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 sickening thud.

   • 2007, J. Joseph Higgins, The Splat Conspiracy: America in Peril, page 145:

     At first, Cyclops's chute began to Roman candle , but in another moment, it popped.

   • 2019, David Taylor, The First Helicopter Boys:

     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 some knickers.

2. (nautical, slang, by extension) A spinnaker.

Translations

parachute — see also parachute

• Bulgarian: парашут (bg) m (parašut)
• Finnish: laskuvarjo (fi), varjo (fi)
• German: Fallschirm (de) m, Schirm (de) m
• Hungarian: ejtőernyő (hu)
• 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”, in 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 *cadūta) 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. fall, collapse, downfall

   Near-synonym: effondrement

   la chute de l’Empire romain d’Occident ― the fall of the Western Roman Empire

4. waterfall

   Synonym: cascade

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

5. punch line (conclusion of a joke or a story; the last words that bring the comic effect)

   Attendez la chute. ― Wait for the conclusion.

6. final part of an ensemble or a shape

   la chute des reins ― the bottom of the backside

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.tɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.tɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃu.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: chu‧te

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English shoot.

Noun

chute m (plural chutes)

1. (Brazil) kick

   Synonym: (Portugal) chuto

2. (Brazil) hunch, guess, opinion

   Synonyms: palpite, suposição, opinião

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 (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “chute”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “chute”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “chute”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “chute”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English shoot. Doublet of chuto.

Noun

chute m (plural chutes)

1. (slang) shot (of heroin)
2. (colloquial, El Salvador) a meddlesome person; a meddler

   Synonym: entrometido

Adjective

chute m or f (masculine and feminine plural chutes)

1. (colloquial, El Salvador) meddlesome, nosy

   Synonym: entrometido

Etymology 2

Verb

chute

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

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Mayan shute.

Noun

chute m (plural chutes)

1. Alternative spelling of chucte

Further reading

• “chute”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28