chute

• IPA^(key): /ʃ(j)uːt/
• Rhymes: -uːt
• Homophone: shoot

From French chute

chute (plural chutes)

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.
2. A waterfall or rapid.

• out of the chute

Short for parachute.

chute (plural chutes)

1. (informal) A parachute.

chute (third-person singular simple present chutes, present participle chuting, simple past and past participle chuted)

1. (informal, intransitive) To parachute.

• chute at OneLook Dictionary Search

• chuet, teuch

From a refashioning of Old French cheüe, chue (from Vulgar Latin *caduta) based on cheoite (corresponding to an analogous Vulgar Latin form *cadecta), feminine past participle of cheoir, the older form of choir. Compare chu, past participle of choir.

• IPA^(key): /ʃyt/

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• Homophones: chut

chute f (plural chutes)

1. fall

   Sa chute lui a été fatale.

   His fall was fatal.

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

   Nous ne sommes plus très loin des chutes du Niagara.

   We're not far from Niagara Falls.

4. conclusion (of a joke or a story, i.e. the last words that bring the comic effect or the conclusion)

   Attendez la chute (de cette blague)

   Wait for the conclusion (of the joke)

5. final part of an ensemble or a shape

   La chute des rein

   the bottom of the backside (in the human body)

• (waterfall): cascade

chute

1. first-person singular present indicative of chuter
2. third-person singular present indicative of chuter
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of chuter
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of chuter
5. second-person singular imperative of chuter

• “chute” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

chute (masculine chu)

1. (France) feminine singular of chu

   Je vouorreis byin avaer chute belle veiteure !

   I would like to have this beautiful car !

chute m (plural chutes)

1. kick

chute

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of chutar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of chutar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of chutar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of chutar.