chute

See also: Chute, chuté, and shute

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ʃuːt/
  • 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.
Derived terms

Translations

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Etymology 2

Short for parachute..

Noun

chute (plural chutes)

  1. A parachute.
Translations

Verb

chute (third-person singular simple present chutes, present participle chuting, simple past and past participle chuted)

  1. To parachute.

Further reading

  • chute at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From a refashioning of Old French cheüe, chue (from 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

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

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

Noun

chute m (plural chutes)

  1. kick

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.
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