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RELATED WORDS : coal chute drogue chute water chute

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun chute has 2 senses

• chute(n = noun.artifact) parachute - rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall; Array
has parts: canopy, harness, ripcord, shroud, static line
has particulars: drogue, drogue chute, drogue parachute, drogue parachute, parasail
is a kind of rescue equipment
Derived form verb chute₁

• chute(n = noun.artifact) slide, slideway, sloping trough - sloping channel through which things can descend; Array
has particulars: coal chute, runway, water chute
is a kind of gutter, trough
has parts: skid

Verb chute has 1 sense

• chute(v = verb.motion) jump, parachute - jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute; Array
is one way to dive, plunge, plunk
Derived form noun chute₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s

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THESAURUS

chute

Ferris wheel, avenue, bank, bevel, bezel, blowhole, brolly, carousel, cascade, cataract, channel, chimney, chute-the-chutes, chutes, collapse, comedown, country rock, crash, debacle, debouch, declension, declination, defluxion, deposit, descending, descension, descent, dike, door, down, downbend, downcome, downcurve, downfall, downflow, downgrade, downpour, downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward trend, drogue chute, drop, dropping, easy slope, eaves trough, egress, emunctory, escape, estuary, exhaust, exit, fall, falling, falls, fleam, floodgate, flume, flying horses, force, gangue, gentle slope, glacis, grade, gradient, gravitation, guide, gutter, hanging gardens, harness, helicline, hillside, inclination, incline, inclined plane, launching ramp, lode, lodestuff, loophole, matrix, merry-go-round, mineral deposit, opening, ore bed, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, pack, parachute, parachute jump, pay dirt, penstock, pentrough, pitch, plummeting, pore, port, pounce, ramp, rapid, rapids, riff, riffle, ripple, roller coaster, roundabout, runway, sally port, sault, scarp, seesaw, shaft, shelving beach, shoot, shroud lines, side, sky dive, slide, slope, sluice, spiracle, spout, steep slope, stiff climb, stock, stoop, swing, swoop, talus, tap, teeter-totter, trough, umbrella, vein, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, waterfall, way out, weir, whip, whirligig

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River

N river, running water, jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau, sluice, water spout, water fall, cascade, force, foss, lin, linn, ghyll, Niagara, cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm, debacle, inundation, deluge, chute, washout, rain, rainfall, serein, shower, scud, downpour, driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst, hyetology, hyetography, predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin, mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash, dropping, falling weather, northeaster, hurricane, typhoon, stream, course, flux, flow, profluence, effluence, defluxion, flowing, current, tide, race, coulee, spring, artesian well, fount, fountain, rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet, streamlet, brooklet, branch, runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river, reach, tributary, geyser, spout, waterspout, body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash, spring tide, high tide, full tide, bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre, fresh, freshet, indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow, confluence, corrivation, wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple, anerythmon gelasma, beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps, rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea, hydrodynamics, hydraulics, hydraulicostatics, rain gauge, flowmeter, pegology, irrigation, pump, watering pot, watering cart, hydrant, syringe, garden hose, lawn spray, bhisti, mussuk, fluent, diffluent, profluent, affluent, tidal, flowing, meandering, meandry, meandrous, fluvial, fluviatile, streamy, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous, stillatitious, for men may come and men may go but I go on foreve, that old man river, he just keeps rolling along.

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