[
UK
/pˈæɹəʃˌuːt/
]
[ US /ˈpɛɹəˌʃut/ ]
[ US /ˈpɛɹəˌʃut/ ]
VERB
- jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
NOUN
- rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
How To Use parachute 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Suspended from a giant parachute, the bronze-colored capsule carrying the taikonaut, coined from the Chinese word for space, touched down at around 6.23 am after a 21-hour journey that took him around the world 14 times.
- Disaster was obviated by the opening of the reserve parachute.
- The command module would then descend to the sea on its parachutes.
- Leonardo's inventions - a parachute, hang-glider, tank, underwater diving suit and robot - are built and put to the test for the first time, 500 years after he designed them.