chuteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ʃ(j)uːt/, /ʃɪu̯t/
• 韻: -uːt
• Homophone: shoot (most accents)

語源 1

From French chute.

名詞

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. A pen or passageway to constrain the movement of an animal, such as livestock being loaded for transport; the pen in which an animal is confined before being released in a rodeo.

   Coordinate term: brake

4. (horse racing) An extension to a straightway on either the home stretch or the backstretch, to avoid having a turn at the start of the race.

派生語

語源 2

Clipping of parachute

名詞

chute (plural chutes)

1. (informal) A parachute.
   • 2000, Callum Henderson, Asian Dawn, page 25:

     Yet the initial IMF rescue plan was far from the parachute which it professed to be – the chute did open briefly but only for it to "Roman candle", the hapless victim left to plummet to earth with a sickening thud.

   • 2007, J. Joseph Higgins, The Splat Conspiracy: America in Peril, page 145:

     At first, Cyclops's chute began to Roman candle , but in another moment, it popped.

   • 2019, David Taylor, The First Helicopter Boys:

     On the second operation the 1,000 mortar bombs were parachuted into the LZ on 125 chutes; all were on target but two roman candled which sent everyone diving for cover and necessitated the change of some knickers.

2. (nautical, slang, by extension) A spinnaker.

動詞

chute (third-person singular simple present chutes, present participle chuting, simple past and past participle chuted)

1. (informal, intransitive) To parachute.

Further reading

• “chute”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• chuet, teuch