Noun

chute (plural chutes)Category:English lemmas#CHUTECategory:English nouns#CHUTECategory:English countable nouns#CHUTECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CHUTECategory:Pages with entries#CHUTECategory:Pages with 6 entries#CHUTE

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.
   • 1959 December, Richard Hope, “Narrow Gauge Landslip”, in Railway Magazine, page 866:

     On reaching the slip, the barrow was wheeled off the truck onto a scaffolding gantry built out over the wall, and the concrete tipped down a corrugated iron chute on to a steel plate.

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2. A waterfall or rapid.
4. 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.

   Coordinate term: brake

5. (horse racingCategory:en:Horse racing#CHUTE) An extension to a straightway on either the home stretch or the backstretch, to avoid having a turn at the start of the race.

Noun

chute (plural chutes)Category:English lemmas#CHUTECategory:English nouns#CHUTECategory:English countable nouns#CHUTECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CHUTECategory:Pages with entries#CHUTECategory:Pages with 6 entries#CHUTE

1. (informalCategory:English informal terms#CHUTE) 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.

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   • 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.

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   • 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.

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2. (nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#CHUTE, slangCategory:English slang#CHUTE, by extension) A spinnaker.

Verb

chute (third-person singular simple present chutes, present participle chuting, simple past and past participle chuted)Category:English lemmas#CHUTECategory:English verbs#CHUTECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CHUTECategory:Pages with entries#CHUTECategory:Pages with 6 entries#CHUTE

1. (informalCategory:English informal terms#CHUTE, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#CHUTE) To parachute.

Noun

chute f (plural chutes)Category:French lemmas#CHUTECategory:French nouns#CHUTECategory:French countable nouns#CHUTECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#CHUTECategory:French feminine nouns#CHUTECategory:Pages with entries#CHUTECategory:Pages with 6 entries#CHUTE

1. fall

   une chute libre ― a free fallCategory:French terms with collocations#CHUTE

   un point de chute ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)Category:Requests for translations of French usage examples#CHUTECategory:French terms with collocations#CHUTE

   Sa chute lui a été fatale. ― His fall was fatal.Category:French terms with usage examples#CHUTE

2. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.Category:Requests for definitions in French entries#CHUTE

   Near-synonyms: averse, précipitations

   une chute de neige ― a snowfallCategory:French terms with collocations#CHUTE

   de violentes chutes de grêle ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)Category:Requests for translations of French usage examples#CHUTECategory:French terms with collocations#CHUTE

3. fall, drop (e.g. in price)

   la chute des prix ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)Category:Requests for translations of French usage examples#CHUTECategory:French terms with collocations#CHUTE

   la chute du cours du rouble ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)Category:Requests for translations of French usage examples#CHUTECategory:French terms with collocations#CHUTE

   une chute de tension ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)Category:Requests for translations of French usage examples#CHUTECategory:French terms with collocations#CHUTE

4. fall, collapse, downfall

   Near-synonym: effondrement

   la chute de l'Empire romain d'Occident ― the fall of the Western Roman EmpireCategory:French terms with collocations#CHUTE

5. ellipsis of chute d'eauCategory:French ellipses#CHUTE waterfall

   Synonym: cascade

   Nous ne sommes plus très loin des chutes du Niagara. ― We're not far from Niagara Falls.Category:French terms with usage examples#CHUTE

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

   Attendez la chute. ― Wait for the conclusion.Category:French terms with usage examples#CHUTE

7. final part of an ensemble or a shape

   la chute des reins ― the bottom of the backsideCategory:French terms with usage examples#CHUTE

Verb

chuteCategory:French non-lemma forms#CHUTECategory:French verb forms#CHUTECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#CHUTECategory:Pages with entries#CHUTECategory:Pages with 6 entries#CHUTE

1. inflection of chuter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Alternative forms

• shoot (superseded)

Noun

chute m (plural chutes)Category:Portuguese lemmas#CHUTECategory:Portuguese nouns#CHUTECategory:Portuguese countable nouns#CHUTECategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#CHUTECategory:Portuguese masculine nouns#CHUTECategory:Pages with entries#CHUTECategory:Pages with 6 entries#CHUTE

1. kick (hit or strike with the leg or foot)

   Synonym: pontapé

2. (sportsCategory:pt:Sports#CHUTE) shot; kick (act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal)

   Synonym: chuto

   • 1902 June 25, “Foot-ball: victoria dos brasileiros contra os inglezes”, Sport, in Correio Paulistano, volume 28, number 13.952, São Paulo, page 2, column 5:

     Nem assim foi mais feliz, pois dentro em pouco, com um shoot estupendo, o sr. Ibanez Salles marcou para os brasileiros um terceiro goal, que foi tambem o ultimo.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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   • 1920 October 14, “JACEGUAY FUTEBOL CLUB (4) (Capital) X ASSOCIAÇÃO ESPORTIVA (2) (São José dos Campos)”, in A Gazeta, volume XV, number 4431, São Paulo, page 2, column 6:

     Logo após este, Salimbano com um chute de grande distancia, consegue conquistar o terceiro ponto do Jaceguay.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

     Category:Portuguese terms with quotations#CHUTECategory:Requests for translations of Portuguese quotations#CHUTE

   • 1970 February 3, Gérson Sabino, “Juiz ganha copa”, in Placar, number 0, São Paulo: Abril, →ISSN, page 9, column 2:

     Um chute de Zagalo, que bateu no travessão e penetrou mais de 20 centímetros dentro do gol, não foi considerado pelo bandeirinha inglês.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

     Category:Portuguese terms with quotations#CHUTECategory:Requests for translations of Portuguese quotations#CHUTE

3. (BrazilCategory:Brazilian Portuguese#CHUTE, informalCategory:Portuguese informal terms#CHUTE) hunch, guess (prediction about the outcome of something)

   Synonyms: palpite, suposição, opinião

Verb

chuteCategory:Portuguese non-lemma forms#CHUTECategory:Portuguese verb forms#CHUTECategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#CHUTECategory:Pages with entries#CHUTECategory:Pages with 6 entries#CHUTE

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

Noun

chute m (plural chutes)Category:Spanish lemmas#CHUTECategory:Spanish nouns#CHUTECategory:Spanish countable nouns#CHUTECategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#CHUTECategory:Spanish masculine nouns#CHUTECategory:Pages with entries#CHUTECategory:Pages with 6 entries#CHUTE

1. (slangCategory:Spanish slang#CHUTE) shot (of heroin)
2. (colloquialCategory:Spanish colloquialisms#CHUTE, El SalvadorCategory:Salvadoran Spanish#CHUTE) a meddlesome person; a meddler

   Synonym: entrometido

Adjective

chute m or f (masculine and feminine plural chutes)Category:Spanish lemmas#CHUTECategory:Spanish adjectives#CHUTECategory:Spanish epicene adjectives#CHUTECategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#CHUTECategory:Pages with entries#CHUTECategory:Pages with 6 entries#CHUTE

1. (colloquialCategory:Spanish colloquialisms#CHUTE, El SalvadorCategory:Salvadoran Spanish#CHUTE) meddlesome, nosy

   Synonym: entrometido

Verb

chuteCategory:Spanish non-lemma forms#CHUTECategory:Spanish verb forms#CHUTECategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#CHUTECategory:Pages with entries#CHUTECategory:Pages with 6 entries#CHUTE

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

Noun

chute m (plural chutes)Category:Spanish lemmas#CHUTECategory:Spanish nouns#CHUTECategory:Spanish countable nouns#CHUTECategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#CHUTECategory:Spanish masculine nouns#CHUTECategory:Pages with entries#CHUTECategory:Pages with 6 entries#CHUTE

1. alternative spelling of chucte