chute
noun /ʃuːt/
/ʃuːt/
- a tube or passage down which people or things can slide
- a water chute (= at a swimming pool)
- a laundry/rubbish/garbage chute (= from the upper floors of a high building)
Homophones chute | shootchute shoot/ʃuːt//ʃuːt/- chute noun
- The laundry chute leads down to the washer-dryer area in the basement.
- shoot verb
- The recruits are learning to shoot at targets.
- shoot noun
- She posed for the cameras as though for a fashion shoot.
Extra Examples- He tossed the discarded wrapping down the chute.
- The rubbish goes down the chute into a large bin.
- a swimming pool with a long water chute
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- garbage
- laundry
- rubbish
- …
- down a/the chute
- (informal) a parachute (= a device that is attached to people or objects to make them fall slowly and safely when they are dropped from an aircraft. It consists of a large piece of thin cloth that opens out in the air.)
Word Originsense 1 early 19th cent. (originally a North American usage): from French, ‘fall’ (of water or rocks), from Old French cheoite, feminine past participle of cheoir ‘to fall’, from Latin cadere; influenced by shoot.sense 2 1920s: shortened form.