CHUTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chute mean? 

• CHUTE (noun)
  The noun CHUTE has 2 senses:

1. rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall

2. sloping channel through which things can descend

  Familiarity information: CHUTE used as a noun is rare.

• CHUTE (verb)
  The verb CHUTE has 1 sense:

1. jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute

  Familiarity information: CHUTE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHUTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chute; parachute

Hypernyms ("chute" is a kind of...):

rescue equipment (equipment used to rescue passengers in case of emergency)

Meronyms (parts of "chute"):

harness (a support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute))

static line (a cord used instead of a ripcord to open a parachute; the cord is attached at one end to the aircraft and temporarily attached to the pack of a parachute at the other; it opens the parachute after the jumper is clear of the plane)

shroud (a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute)

ripcord (a cord that is pulled to open a parachute from its pack during a descent)

canopy (the umbrellalike part of a parachute that fills with air)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chute"):

drogue; drogue chute; drogue parachute (a parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly)

drogue parachute (a small parachute that pulls the main parachute from its storage pack)

parasail (parachute that will lift a person up into the air when it is towed by a motorboat or a car)

Derivation:

chute (jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Sloping channel through which things can descend

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chute; slide; slideway; sloping trough

Hypernyms ("chute" is a kind of...):

gutter; trough (a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater)

Meronyms (parts of "chute"):

skid (one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chute"):

glacier mill; moulin (a chute through which supraglacial water enters a glacier, boring either to the bedrock or to the depth of common crevasse formation)

coal chute (a chute for coal)

runway (a chute down which logs can slide)

water chute (chute with flowing water down which toboggans and inner tubes and people slide into a pool)

• CHUTE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they chute    ... he / she / it chutes   
Past simple: chuted   
Past participle: chuted   
-ing form: chuting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

chute; jump; parachute

Hypernyms (to "chute" is one way to...):

dive; plunge; plunk (drop steeply)

"Chute" entails doing...:

glide (fly in or as if in a glider plane)

come down; descend; fall; go down (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "chute"):

sky dive; skydive (jump from an airplane and perform various maneuvers before opening one's parachute)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

chute (rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall)

 Context examples 

Analysis of the images indicates what appears to be a partially deployed configuration, with what is thought to be the rear cover with its pilot/drogue chute (still attached) and main parachute close by.

('Lost' 2003 Mars Lander Found by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA)