Chute
noun
A path or tube where things can slide down or through.
The parcel delivery company uses chutes to help sort packages by region.
Often appears as...
- slide down the chute
- chute for waste
noun
A parachute.
Emergency situations may require pilots to use their chutes.
Often appears as...
- deploy the chute
- parachute chute
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Informal
noun
A steep slope or waterfall.
The river flows down a narrow chute before reaching the ocean.
Often appears as...
- water chute
- chute of the waterfall
noun
A frame or enclosure used to confine animals, such as cattle.
A loading chute is used to guide the cattle onto the truck.
Often appears as...
- loading chute
- cattle chute
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Technical
noun
A path or tube where things can slide down or through.
The parcel delivery company uses chutes to help sort packages by region.
Often appears as...
- slide down the chute
- chute for waste
noun
A parachute.
Emergency situations may require pilots to use their chutes.
Often appears as...
- deploy the chute
- parachute chute
Usage tips
Informal
noun
A steep slope or waterfall.
The river flows down a narrow chute before reaching the ocean.
Often appears as...
- water chute
- chute of the waterfall
noun
A frame or enclosure used to confine animals, such as cattle.
A loading chute is used to guide the cattle onto the truck.
Often appears as...
- loading chute
- cattle chute
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Transportation Efficiency
Chutes are common in busy environments to move items quickly and in an organized way.
Mailrooms have chutes to distribute letters to different departments swiftly.
Pro Tip 2/3Kids' Playgrounds
Chutes in playgrounds are fun slides for children to go down.
Tommy couldn't wait to go down the bright red chute at the park.
Pro Tip 3/3Waste Disposal
Chutes are used in buildings to collect trash by dropping it into a central container.
Please throw your garbage down the waste chute at the end of the hall.
Pro Tip 1/3Transportation Efficiency
Chutes are common in busy environments to move items quickly and in an organized way.
Mailrooms have chutes to distribute letters to different departments swiftly.
Pro Tip 2/3Kids' Playgrounds
Chutes in playgrounds are fun slides for children to go down.
Tommy couldn't wait to go down the bright red chute at the park.
Pro Tip 3/3Waste Disposal
Chutes are used in buildings to collect trash by dropping it into a central container.
Please throw your garbage down the waste chute at the end of the hall.
Pro Tip 1/3Transportation Efficiency
Chutes are common in busy environments to move items quickly and in an organized way.
Mailrooms have chutes to distribute letters to different departments swiftly.
Pro Tip 2/3Kids' Playgrounds
Chutes in playgrounds are fun slides for children to go down.
Tommy couldn't wait to go down the bright red chute at the park.
Pro Tip 3/3Waste Disposal
Chutes are used in buildings to collect trash by dropping it into a central container.
Please throw your garbage down the waste chute at the end of the hall.
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Video examples
Steve Truglia: A leap...
I'm excited and I'm scared, both at the same time in equal measures. And this is the camera that he had on him as he tumbled before his drogue chute opened to stabilize him. A drogue chute is just a smaller chute which helps to keep your face down. You can just see them there, popping open.
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Meet the "Underground...
first team of archaeologists to get into the deepest part of the cave tomorrow none of us have been into the final chamber yet we have all been to what's called base one which is at the top of Dragon's Back and it's sitting right above the final chute which has the the
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Photographer Jimmy Chin:...
like rock climbing it would be the center of the universe for BASE jumping it's like the ultimate place and a lot of the people there cannot help themselves here they are in squirrel suits and they'll literally fly for two minutes without pulling their chutes and
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Explore the Hidden and...
worth protecting and to me that's really important well caving started more or less when I was about 2 years old my dad took me in a backpack and slid me all the way down through the little tunnel chute and I got in there and I was completely amazed
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WorldSpace: The world’s...
how how many people we can reach how many people we can convert to change jane goodall's routes to chutes kind of a program how many Africans can read us empower to help themselves how much of that African
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Creative houses from...
then looking up in the turret you see there are bulges and pokes and sags and so forth well if that ruins your life well then you shouldn't live there this is a laundry chute and this right here
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Inside UPS PIPE National...
half-a-million smalls they've got to work fast or risk a cardboard logjam conveyer belts take the small straight up to the cores fourth floors workers deep bag them and drop them down a chute
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Dan Phillips: Creative...
Then, looking up in the turret, you see there are bulges and pokes and sags and so forth. Well, if that ruins your life, well, then, you shouldn't live there. This is a laundry chute.
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For When you Need a Good...
This is it. F51 and her family came down this chute. And they must have been making noise, kicking rocks or calling, kittens playing, who knows.
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Parachute Malfunction PIPE...
of control it was the most gut-wrenching sickening feeling of my entire life she pulls a tab to release the main chute
Video examples
Steve Truglia: A leap...
I'm excited and I'm scared, both at the same time in equal measures. And this is the camera that he had on him as he tumbled before his drogue chute opened to stabilize him. A drogue chute is just a smaller chute which helps to keep your face down. You can just see them there, popping open.
Video examples
Meet the "Underground...
first team of archaeologists to get into the deepest part of the cave tomorrow none of us have been into the final chamber yet we have all been to what's called base one which is at the top of Dragon's Back and it's sitting right above the final chute which has the the
Video examples
Photographer Jimmy Chin:...
like rock climbing it would be the center of the universe for BASE jumping it's like the ultimate place and a lot of the people there cannot help themselves here they are in squirrel suits and they'll literally fly for two minutes without pulling their chutes and
Video examples
Explore the Hidden and...
worth protecting and to me that's really important well caving started more or less when I was about 2 years old my dad took me in a backpack and slid me all the way down through the little tunnel chute and I got in there and I was completely amazed
Video examples
WorldSpace: The world’s...
how how many people we can reach how many people we can convert to change jane goodall's routes to chutes kind of a program how many Africans can read us empower to help themselves how much of that African
Video examples
Creative houses from...
then looking up in the turret you see there are bulges and pokes and sags and so forth well if that ruins your life well then you shouldn't live there this is a laundry chute and this right here
Video examples
Inside UPS PIPE National...
half-a-million smalls they've got to work fast or risk a cardboard logjam conveyer belts take the small straight up to the cores fourth floors workers deep bag them and drop them down a chute
Video examples
Dan Phillips: Creative...
Then, looking up in the turret, you see there are bulges and pokes and sags and so forth. Well, if that ruins your life, well, then, you shouldn't live there. This is a laundry chute.
Video examples
For When you Need a Good...
This is it. F51 and her family came down this chute. And they must have been making noise, kicking rocks or calling, kittens playing, who knows.
Video examples
Parachute Malfunction PIPE...
of control it was the most gut-wrenching sickening feeling of my entire life she pulls a tab to release the main chute
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Mary Gauthier
American Musician
I teach songwriting a lot, and I always tell my students, 'You gotta write the little songs sometimes to get to the next big song in the chute.' You gotta write 'em to get to it. You never know what's going to be a little song or a big song.
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Eugene Levy
Canadian Actor
But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before?
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Pete Doherty
English Musician
If Oasis is the sound of a council estate singing its heart out, then the Libertines sounded like someone just putting something in the rubbish chute at the back of the estate, trying to work out what day it is.
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Alexandra Kleeman
American Author
I' is the word everyone uses to refer to themselves. On the one hand, it points to a specific person, but it's also this blank space that you can insert yourself into; it's a chute into empathy.
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Mike Schmidt
American Athlete
I've got to tell you right out of the chute, Ryan Howard, to me, is very interested in my input in his hitting. To me that makes me really feel good. We've chatted over the years about hitting.
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Mae Jemison
American Astronaut
Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it's discovering the world around us.
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Louis R. Chenevert
Canadian Businessman
We produce motor drive electronics; we produce cargo systems for large narrow-body and wide-body airplanes and, more importantly, the emergency escape chute that goes on these planes.
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Dan Quisenberry
American Athlete
Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.
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John Hench
American Artist
What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were. But they're all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here!
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Mariella Frostrup
British Journalist
I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.
Quote examples
Mary Gauthier
American Musician
I teach songwriting a lot, and I always tell my students, 'You gotta write the little songs sometimes to get to the next big song in the chute.' You gotta write 'em to get to it. You never know what's going to be a little song or a big song.
Quote examples
Eugene Levy
Canadian Actor
But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before?
Quote examples
Pete Doherty
English Musician
If Oasis is the sound of a council estate singing its heart out, then the Libertines sounded like someone just putting something in the rubbish chute at the back of the estate, trying to work out what day it is.
Quote examples
Alexandra Kleeman
American Author
I' is the word everyone uses to refer to themselves. On the one hand, it points to a specific person, but it's also this blank space that you can insert yourself into; it's a chute into empathy.
Quote examples
Mike Schmidt
American Athlete
I've got to tell you right out of the chute, Ryan Howard, to me, is very interested in my input in his hitting. To me that makes me really feel good. We've chatted over the years about hitting.
Quote examples
Mae Jemison
American Astronaut
Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it's discovering the world around us.
Quote examples
Louis R. Chenevert
Canadian Businessman
We produce motor drive electronics; we produce cargo systems for large narrow-body and wide-body airplanes and, more importantly, the emergency escape chute that goes on these planes.
Quote examples
Dan Quisenberry
American Athlete
Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.
Quote examples
John Hench
American Artist
What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were. But they're all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here!
Quote examples
Mariella Frostrup
British Journalist
I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.
Example 1 of 10
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