chute

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ʃuːt/    美 /ʃut/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — 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.
  2. A parachute. informal
    — 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.
  3. A waterfall or rapid.
  4. A spinnaker. broadly,slang
  5. 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.
  6. An extension to a straightway on either the home stretch or the backstretch, to avoid having a turn at the start of the race.
动词 v.
  1. To parachute. informal,intransitive

词形变化

chutes plural chutes plural chutes present,singular,third-person chuting participle,present chuted participle,past chuted past

词汇关系

衍生词
ballute bean chute chute dogging chute house chuteless chutelike chute-the-chute cruising chute dirt chute drag chute drogue chute flood chute garbage chute head chute laundry chute out of the chute poop chute refuse chute shoot-the-chute squeeze chute Stony Chute straight out of the chute trash chute

词源

词源 1
From French chute.
词源 2
Clipping of parachute.
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