chute

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US /ʃut/ UK /ʃuːt/ See IPA manual

Homophones

shoot /ʃut/

noun verb

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1

noun
a sloping channel for conveying things downward

The mail slid down the chute to the sorting room below.

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1 noun · a sloping channel for... channel slide ramp trough shaft conduit

Etymology

From French chute ('fall, descent'), from Old French cheoite, feminine past participle of cheoir ('to fall'), from Latin cadere ('to fall'); in American English influenced by shoot.

chute French cadere Latin

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# chute

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun, verb
**IPA (US):** ʃut
**IPA (UK):** ʃuːt

## Meanings
1. a sloping channel for conveying things downward

## Examples
- The mail slid down the chute to the sorting room below.

## Synonyms
- channel
- slide
- ramp
- trough
- shaft
- conduit

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: chute
- Root: cadere

## Etymology
From French chute ('fall, descent'), from Old French cheoite, feminine past participle of cheoir ('to fall'), from Latin cadere ('to fall'); in American English influenced by shoot.

## AI Etymology
Chute comes from French chute ('fall, descent'), from Old French cheoite, feminine past participle of cheoir ('to fall'), from Latin cadere ('to fall'); in American English influenced by shoot. The historical trail runs through chute in French and cadere in Latin. Used as a noun and verb, chute now means "a sloping channel for conveying things downward", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. The result is a borrowed or transmitted form whose modern spelling carries a compact record of its route into English.

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