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Chute

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Chute or Chutes, may refer to:

  • Chute (gravity), a channel down which falling materials are guided
  • Chute (landform), a steep-sided passage through which water flows rapidly
  • Escape chute, an emergency exit utilized where conventional fire escapes are impractical
  • Mail chute, a letter collection device
  • Parachute, a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag

People

  • Anthony Chute (fl. 1590s–1595), Elizabethan poet and pamphleteer
  • Chaloner Chute (died 1659), English lawyer and Speaker of the House of Commons
  • Christopher G. Chute, American biomedical informatics researcher
  • Hillary Chute (born 1976), American academic
  • Marchette Chute (1909–1994), American biographer
  • Philip Chute (1506–1567), English Member of Parliament

Places

  • Chute, Wiltshire, a parish in England, United Kingdom
  • Chute River, a short river in Maine, United States
  • Chute, Victoria, a locality in Australia
  • Rivière des Chutes (Batiscan River tributary) (French: Chutes River; Falls River), a river in Mauricie, Quebec, Canada

Facilities and structures

  • Pont des Chutes (French: Chutes Bridge; Falls Bridge), a covered bridge in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada
  • École secondaire des Chutes (disambiguation) (French: Chutes Secondary School; Falls Secondary); highschools

Television

  • Chute! (television programme), a children's programme
  • "The Chute", a 1996 episode in the third season of Star Trek: Voyager

Other uses

  • Chutes and ladders
  • Pilot chute, a small auxiliary parachute used to deploy a main parachute
  • Chute (racecourse), a projection extending from either end of an oval-shaped racecourse
  • Squeeze chute, a cage for restraining a farm animal
  • Chute (in North America), a cattle race, a channel for handling and sorting farm animals

See also

  • Shoot (disambiguation)
  • Shute (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Chute
  • All pages with titles containing chutes
  • All pages with titles containing chute
  • Deschutes (disambiguation)
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