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Examples of chute in a Sentence
She dropped the towels into the laundry chute.
children sliding down a water chute
The skiers came racing down the chute.
Recent Examples of chute from the Web
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The soft shale brings runners to the Junior Pole and beyond into the chute, an open area made dusty by warm weather.
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There's a coal chute that can be propped open and in which a fan can be installed to allow for some extra ventilation.
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The bottom half slid down a chute beneath the vegetable slicers, where robotic blades cut pickles, tomatoes, and onions.
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One of the crew jerks a lever, releasing the first in a line of 3-month-old calves, standing rump to face in the confines of the metal chute.
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The tee shot comes out of a chute of trees into a generous landing area.
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Your reward is a powerful chute of water with a rare rock overhang that allows visitors to walk behind the curtain of water and plunge pool.
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Those trees were about the only thing that stopped the flotsam that shot down the water chute.
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In June, a 19-year-old skier from Bozeman, Mont., died after falling 1,100 feet down a chute near Beartooth Pass.
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Origin and Etymology of chute
French, from Old French, from cheoir to fall, from Latin cadere — more at chance
NEW! Time Traveler
First Known Use: 1805
in the meaning defined at sense 1a
See Words from the same yearOther Geology Terms
anthracite, boulder, cwm, erratic, igneous, intrusive, mesa, sedimentary, silt, swale
Definition of chute
1
: to go in or as if in a chute
2
: to utilize a chute (as by passing ore down it)
First Known Use of chute
1884
CHUTE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of chute for English Language Learners
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: a narrow tube or passage that things and people go down or through
CHUTE Defined for Kids
chute
noun
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ˈshüt
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Definition of chute for Students
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: a tube or passage down or through which people slide or things are slid or dropped
- a laundry chute
- Children slid down the chute.
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: 1parachute
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