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Synonyms for chute

Grammar : Noun
Spell : shoot
Phonetic Transcription : ʃut

Définition of chute

Origin :
  • 1725, American English, "fall of water" (earlier shoot, 1610s), from French chute "fall," from Old French cheoite "a fall," fem. past participle of cheoir "to fall," from Latin cadere (see case (n.1)). Meaning "inclined tube, trough" is from 1804; that of "narrow passage for cattle, etc." first recorded 1881. In North America, absorbing some senses of similar-sounding shoot (n.1).
  • noun ramp, slope
Example sentences :
  • Even if you're already dead, pull the ripcord ring of your chute!
  • Extract from : « Lords of the Stratosphere » by Arthur J. Burks
  • It stops, in its turn, before a chute of smooth granite in the form of a bowl.
  • Extract from : « The Trimming of Goosie » by James Hopper
  • I'll get ya the plane and chute if y'll put up a deposit to cover the cost.
  • Extract from : « Disowned » by Victor Endersby
  • As the door swung open, he threw the 'chute out toward the ground.
  • Extract from : « The Great Drought » by Sterner St. Paul Meek
  • This chute, Fuller had said, led to the outside at the back of the reduction plant.
  • Extract from : « Vulcan's Workshop » by Harl Vincent
  • I found the vein a thousand feet up the chute of Dry Fork Gulch.
  • Extract from : « Out of the Depths » by Robert Ames Bennet
  • They fled toward a patch of rocks and cactus in the direction of Devil's Chute.
  • Extract from : « Bloom of Cactus » by Robert Ames Bennet
  • Mr. Sibley urged us not to go to the Hopkins', but to stay there, but Mr. Chute wanted to go.
  • Extract from : « Old Rail Fence Corners » by Various
  • Mr. Sibley, Mr. Chute and I, with a guide, went to see a miniature Minnehaha.
  • Extract from : « Old Rail Fence Corners » by Various
  • The main-hatch continued to gulp the black food which the chute fed to it.
  • Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day

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