单词 | chute |
释义 | chute ![]() n. 1. a. An inclined trough, passage, or channel through or down which things may pass. b. A narrow, usually fenced passage for horses or cattle. c. A usually straight extension of one side of an oval racetrack, used to start certain longer races so that the finish line can be kept on a straightaway in front of the stands or clubhouse. d. A gated stall that is used to hold and release animals into an open area, especially horses and steers being ridden in a rodeo. 2. A waterfall or rapid. 3. A parachute. v. chut·ed, chut·ing, chutes v.tr. To convey or deposit by a chute. v.intr. Idiom: To go or descend by a chute. out of the chute At the very beginning; right away: Sales were strong right out of the chute. [French, a fall, alteration (influenced by chu) of Old French cheoite, from feminine past participle of cheoir, to fall, from Vulgar Latin *cadēre, from Latin cadere; see kad- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots. Sense 3, short for PARACHUTE.] |
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