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.
3. The pen in which an animal is confined before being released in a rodeo.

Clipping of parachute

chute (plural chutes)

1. (informal) A parachute.
2. (nautical, slang, by extension) A spinnaker.

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

• IPA^(key): /ʃyt/

• audio

  (file)

• Homophone: chut

From a merger of Old French cheüe, chue (from Vulgar Latin *caduta) and cheoite (from Vulgar Latin cadecta), both feminine past participles of cheoir, whence modern choir (compare chu).

chute f (plural chutes)

1. fall

   Sa chute lui a été fatale. ― His fall was fatal.

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

   la chute de l’Empire romain d’Occident ― the fall of the Western Roman Empire

   Near-synonym: effondrement

4. waterfall

   Nous ne sommes plus très loin des chutes du Niagara. ― We're not far from Niagara Falls.

   Synonym: cascade

5. punch line (conclusion of a joke or a story; the last words that bring the comic effect)

   Attendez la chute. ― Wait for the conclusion.

6. final part of an ensemble or a shape

   la chute des reins ― the bottom of the backside

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

chute

1. inflection of chuter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “chute”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “chute” in Dictionnaire Français en ligne Larousse.
• “chute” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.

chute (masculine chu)

1. (France) feminine singular of chu

   Je vouorreis byin avaer chute belle veiteure ! ― I would like to have this beautiful car !

• Hyphenation: chu‧te

Borrowed from English shoot.

chute m (plural chutes)

1. (Brazil) kick

   Synonym: (Portugal) chuto

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

chute

1. inflection of chutar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “chute” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “chute” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “chute” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
• “chute” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “chute” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃute/ [ˈt͡ʃu.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ute
• Syllabification: chu‧te

Borrowed from English shoot. Doublet of chuto.

chute m (plural chutes)

1. (slang) shot (of heroin)

chute

1. inflection of chutar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “chute”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014