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BNC: 16220 COCA: 10638

chute

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chute /ˈʃuːt/ noun
plural chutes
chute
/ˈʃuːt/
noun
plural chutes
Learner's definition of CHUTE
[count]
: a narrow tube or passage that things and people go down or through(人或物品可下滑或通过的)溜道,滑道,斜槽
informal : 1parachute

out of the chute

US, informal
: since the very beginning从一开始
BNC: 16220 COCA: 10638

chute

1 of 2

noun

variants or less commonly
1
b
: a quick descent (as in a river) : rapid
2
: an inclined plane, sloping channel, or passage down or through which things may pass : slide
3
4

chute

2 of 2

verb

chuted; chuting

transitive verb

: to convey by a chute

intransitive verb

1
: to go in or as if in a chute
2
: to utilize a chute (as by passing ore down it)

Example Sentences

Noun She dropped the towels into the laundry chute. children sliding down a water chute The skiers came racing down the chute.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Indiana law prohibits electioneering within polls or the chute, the 50-foot area for voters to line up before the polls. IndyStar, 23 Aug. 2022 Orders are delivered to customers via a vertical chute from the second-floor kitchen. Fortune, 17 Aug. 2022 In 1977 Jim Balcome was running his fastest time at the Manchester Road Race – until he was forced to stop about 600 yards from the finish line due to a bottleneck of people going through the chute. Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2022 Five hours north on Route 101 from San Francisco to Humboldt County, through a few cool redwood groves, Johnny Casali turns on a woodchipper and empties 55 pounds of pot into the chute. Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022 And a more complicated ethical conundrum recently hit the courts: In 2020, two experienced snowboarders in Summit County, Colorado, filmed themselves discussing the slide risks of dropping into a chute above Interstate 70. Outside Online, 24 Jan. 2022 Visiting a ski resort and aiming snow-machine chute directly at our armpits. Scott Jacobson, The New Yorker, 3 July 2021 With each keystroke, a small brass mold for a single character—a capital B, for instance—releases from an overhead magazine, slides down a chute, and goes clinking into place like a quarter in a coin sorter. Nick Yetto, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022 Thankfully, the more pensive Ben, the middle brother, had covered the hard basement floor with laundry before young Beau came tumbling down the chute. Matt Seyler, ABC News, 30 May 2021
Verb
The mountains bear that bright March radiance, glowing in creamy white palettes that chute down their steep sides. Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2022 Oh, chute: If there are freshies to be had, Blackley starts at the Milly Express lift and makes laps. Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Oct. 2021 As a result, when the pilot chutes deployed to pull out the mains, one of them was not properly connected. William Harwood, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2019 The animal chutes blocked the escape as the oil and wax that had been used to waterproof the tent caught fire and turned the big top into a raging inferno. Steven Goode, courant.com, 6 July 2019 The clouds of jumpers, with round ‘chutes akin to those used by D-Day soldiers, were honoring the thousands of paratroopers who leapt into gunfire and death 75 years ago. Washington Post, 6 June 2019 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

French, from Old French, from cheoir to fall, from Latin cadere — more at chance

First Known Use

Noun

1805, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Verb

1884, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Time Traveler
The first known use of chute was in 1805
BNC: 16220 COCA: 10638
chute

noun

ADJECTIVE | PREPOSITION ADJECTIVEgarbage, laundry, rubbish, water垃圾槽;待洗衣物滑落槽;滑水槽a swimming pool with a long water chute有長滑水槽的游泳池PREPOSITIONdown a/the chute順着滑道He tossed the discarded wrapping down the chute.他將丟棄的包裝材料扔下垃圾槽。

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