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UK
/ʃˈuːt/
]
[ US /ˈʃut/ ]
[ US /ˈʃut/ ]
VERB
- jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
NOUN
- sloping channel through which things can descend
- rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
How To Use chute In A Sentence
- Carried by B-52 bombers, the "bunker busters" used five parachutes to land softly on their targets before detonating a nine megaton explosion, in effect simulating an earthquake.
- First to unfold were the two 14-foot-wide drogue chutes, which oriented the craft and continued slowing it.
- And strips of cloth had been tied around the reserve chute so that it could not be opened either. The Sun
- Please urge all ultralight owners with BRS units (or even hand-deploy parachutes) to re-evaluate the series of attachments that connect the pilot to the airplane, to the parachute, and to both.
- At twenty thousand meters, with the pods still traveling at a high velocity, parachutes billowed out from the same boxes that had contained the glider wings.
- And strips of cloth had been tied around the reserve chute so that it could not be opened either. The Sun
- The Parachute Regiment could be forced to admit women.
- As a holder of the Combat Infantrymans Badge, it and my Parachute badge are still on my old field jacket, as is the 173 Abn Bde patch on the right shoulder. Why Life is Now More Complicated
- First commercialization application just is knitted make sock and parachute.
- Eberle described fish ladders as custom-built, aluminum or wood water chutes with baffles.