| NOUN | artifact | chute, parachute | rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall |
|---|---|---|---|
| artifact | chute, slide, slideway, sloping trough | sloping channel through which things can descend | |
| VERB | motion | chute, parachute, jump | jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute |
| Sounds | shuw't | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | absolute ... uproot: 83 rhymes with uwt... | |
| Meaning | rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | parachute | |
| Parts | canopy | The umbrellalike part of a parachute that fills with air |
| harness | A support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute) | |
| ripcord | A cord that is pulled to open a parachute from its pack during a descent | |
| shroud | A line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute | |
| static line | A cord used instead of a ripcord to open a parachute | |
| Narrower | drogue, drogue chute, drogue parachute | A parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly |
| drogue parachute | A small parachute that pulls the main parachute from its storage pack | |
| parasail | parachute that will lift a person up into the air when it is towed by a motorboat or a car | |
| Broader | rescue equipment | equipment used to rescue passengers in case of emergency |
| Spanish | paracaídas | |
| Catalan | paracaiguda, paracaigudes | |
| Verbs | chute | jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute |
| Meaning | sloping channel through which things can descend. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | slide, slideway, sloping trough | |
| Parts | skid | One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects |
| Narrower | coal chute | A chute for coal |
| moulin, glacier mill | A chute through which supraglacial water enters a glacier, boring either to the bedrock or to the depth of common crevasse formation | |
| runway | A chute down which logs can slide | |
| water chute | chute with flowing water down which toboggans and inner tubes and people slide into a pool | |
| Broader | gutter, trough | A channel along the eaves or on the roof |
| Spanish | tobogán | |
| Meaning | Jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Synonyms | parachute, jump | |
| Entails | descend, fall, go down, come down | Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way |
| glide | fly in or as if in a glider plane | |
| Narrower | sky dive, skydive | Jump from an airplane and perform various maneuvers before opening one's parachute |
| Broader | dive, plunge, plunk | Drop steeply |
| Nouns | chute | rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall |
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