(n.) 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.
(n.) See Shoot.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ring was in the collection of the Chute family – which for generations was interested in politics, collecting, and antiquarian research – for centuries before the house came to the National Trust in the 1930s.
(2) Passengers on board a flight to Kalibo, in the Philippines, tweeted photos of the plane with its emergency chutes deployed after it apparently overshot the runway while landing in bad weather.
(3) Bradford was knocked into the chute and crushed against the floor.
(4) Blind behavioral testing in a "squeeze chute" was conducted 40 minutes after injection.
(5) Factors leading to injury included rapid onset of colder temperatures, sudden reuse of snowblowers after storage for the summer, a heavy mid-week storm that created a sense of urgency to clear snow in dusky light conditions after a day at work, frustration as exit chutes became repeatedly clogged with heavy wet snow and limited operator education.
(6) Unlike any other animal in this country - except, perhaps, the mole, whose condition is, if anything, even more opaque, and just as likely to be following its own chute to oblivion - the hedgehog has always been a symbol and embodiment of something subtle and tender in the landscape.
(7) She said the emergency chute had not deployed so they jumped to the tarmac.
(8) Because this seems to represent a new cause of SCI, we advise the authorities to reassess the security regarding chute construction and the necessary water depth.
(9) The upmarket steakhouse is so much part of the New York establishment its famous wine cellars – cleverly concealed behind camouflaged doors, invisible chutes and revolving bars to thwart prohibition enforcers searching for illegal liquor – have housed the private collections of Ford and Nixon, as well as those of Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Mae West, Eva Gabor and Aristotle Onassis, to name but a few.
(10) Then called the "No-Spill" cutting board, the white kitchen aid stood apart in that it could be folded at an angle into a chute so that all the food that was chopped would flow straight into the pot, an idea which had failed to draw the attention of consumers when it was designed about 25 years ago.
(11) 'CHUTE: THE ANNUAL "Birmingham and Sunderland have been promoted back to the Premier League at the first attempt," writes Simon Phillips.
(12) Air sampling for organic dusts and microorganisms was carried out in silos when moldy silage was discarded through the discharge chute.
(13) Escape was made over the seat backs, down an escape chute to a position 12 m from the base of the chute.
(14) The chimpanzees used the inside run, connective chute, concrete slab, and grass areas most.
(15) About +47,000 in replacement costs have been saved since the hospital instituted a plan to retrieve materials that are inadvertantly deposited in laundry chutes with soiled linens.
(16) Lydney was re-excavated by the maverick archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler, who called in Tolkien in 1929 to advise on the odd name of the god – and also spotted the connection between the name on the curse and the Chute family's peculiar ring.
(17) John Bradford, 62, died while moving an elephant into a chute connecting barn stalls to the barnyard at the Dickerson Park Zoo on Friday, city spokeswoman Cora Scott said.
(18) To reduce stress from handling at treatment time, each calf was herded through the squeeze chute daily for 5 d before the experiment.
(19) Be sure to catch the sidewalk-clearing bit: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close (via @ rubinafillion ) Updated at 5.51pm GMT 5.44pm GMT Our first and perhaps only snowblower operation tip of the day, courtesy of the New York State Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services : NYS DHSES (@NYSDHSES) Make sure your snow blower discharge chute is not aimed at passing motorists or pedestrians #winterstorm January 3, 2014 5.40pm GMT Still planning Friday travel?
(20) On the other hand if you go to McDonald’s, you won’t have a problem with punching buttons and having a burger come out of a chute somewhere.” One issue that will loom ever larger as the incidence of automation increases, according to Kaplan, is inequality.
Cute
Definition:
(a.) Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning.
Example Sentences:
(1) "In a sea of bubblegum-cute popsters, Sistar stand out for their cool and sexy image," says Scobie.
(2) There's a cute one comparing feelings to children: you don't want to let them drive, but equally you don't want to stuff them in the boot.
(3) You can use absolutely anything - an unwanted T-shirt, some old curtains, something you picked up in a charity shop ... Garish 70s-style prints you probably wouldn't dream of wearing work surprisingly well in soft toys: they are cute, they can pull it off.
(4) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
(5) When he smiles, he looks as cute and gummy as a newborn.
(6) And we didn’t want a bloody female one – at least the last guy was cute.
(7) You're so cute, look at you in your little jumper!"
(8) Our compilation of near misses on the road may be a little hair-raising but, as a bonus, we offer a lucky cyclist who is hit by a car but lands on a mattress There is no shortage of cute pets this week, with a cat who is into escapology and a dog who loves rolling on the bed when he thinks his owner isn't around .
(9) Does appreciation for cuteness come naturally, or does it reveal something about our society?
(10) Another great feature of the panda, at least as far as Chairman Mao Zedong and his followers were concerned, was that the rest of the world, particularly the west, had become obsessed by its excruciatingly cute looks and behaviour.
(11) Laurinda runs Casa do Norte (from £30 a night) – a cute, romantic cottage to kick back in – and manages a handful of other turismos rurales.
(12) Lorenz’s paper is the blueprint of cute studies, but it did not produce a positive reaction among the scientific community.
(13) Despite their cute appearance, the animals have been known to bite the fingers off of tourists who have gone into the cages .
(14) This is Iron Man as Conan: he may be a genius on Earth but when he meets advanced alien civilisations, they just see him as a cute little barbarian."
(15) Snap – they're my photos 8 Extreme Mountain Unicycling This is wheely dangerous, said a spokesman … 9 How to win Chess in 4 moves Pawn movie 10 Dog Jumps Over A River Cute – you'll want to stream this video Source: Viral Video Chart .
(16) The beach is half a block a way, and you even get a cute, hand-drawn map to guide you around the sand-street town.
(17) People genuinely like them because they're funny, interesting, cute or just generally interesting.
(18) We're in a time where it is cute to be provocative and alternative and distinct.
(19) But it's obvious from the start that there are no deferential nods to Egyptian, classical, modernist or postmodernist modes, no reassuring "quotes" like the over-cute pilasters that adorn the extension to London's National Gallery by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.
(20) For Kaori Kitakata, a devotee since she was introduced to the genre by Korean friends, K-pop is a change from the overtly cute mien cultivated by popular Japanese girlbands such as Morning Musume .