What's the difference between chute and slide?

Chute


Definition:

  • (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.

Slide


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.
  • (v. t.) Especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth, uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of gravity, or on the feet.
  • (v. t.) To pass inadvertently.
  • (v. t.) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water.
  • (v. t.) To slip when walking or standing; to fall.
  • (v. t.) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.
  • (v. t.) To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
  • (v. t.) To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.
  • (v. t.) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.
  • (n.) The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.
  • (n.) Smooth, even passage or progress.
  • (n.) That on which anything moves by sliding.
  • (n.) An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, esp. one constructed on a mountain side for conveying logs by sliding them down.
  • (n.) A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement.
  • (n.) That which operates by sliding.
  • (n.) A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it.
  • (n.) A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides.
  • (n.) A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like.
  • (n.) A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope.
  • (n.) The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide.
  • (n.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
  • (n.) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
  • (n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.
  • (n.) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
  • (n.) Same as Guide bar, under Guide.
  • (n.) A slide valve.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
  • (2) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
  • (3) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
  • (4) That piece was placed on the slide and embedded with a mixture of agar and antiserum.
  • (5) Slides and short films were used in primary and secondary schools.
  • (6) One cytotechnologist screened the slides for all occurrences of a standard set of classic cytopathologic signs.
  • (7) It was the ease with which minor debt could slide into a tangle of hunger and despair.
  • (8) Slide smears revealed the rosette-shaped pattern characteristic of malignant neuroblastoma, many of which were fitted with dendritic plasmatic processes.
  • (9) In the 55th minute Ivanovic dispossessed Bale and beat Ricketts before sliding the ball across to give Tadic a simple finish.
  • (10) Perfused or immersion-fixed epithalamic tissues, sectioned, and mounted on glass slides were processed through the avidin-biotin immunofluorescence method.
  • (11) The staining method consisted of sequential treatment of slides with crest serum, fluorosceinated goat-antihuman and swine-antigoat antibodies, and propidium iodide.
  • (12) These additional cues involved different sensations in effort of the perfomed movement – sliding heavy object vs. sliding light object (sS test), as well as different sensations in pattern of movement and joints - sliding vs. lifting of an object (SL test).
  • (13) Portugal's slide towards a Greek-style second bailout accelerated after its principal private lenders indicated that they were growing weary of assurances from Lisbon that it could get on top of the country's debts.
  • (14) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
  • (15) In addition to the cytologic characteristics, the possibility of detecting muscle antigens as markers for these embryonal small cells, even in previously stained slides, provides a successful method for defining the specific type of sarcoma.
  • (16) Tissue slides obtained at autopsy from 80 cases with AIDS were studied immunhistochemically for infection with Toxoplasma gondii.
  • (17) These results confirmed that 'punctuated' labeling was not an artefact due to a distortion of the cell's shape by having been dried on glass slides.
  • (18) The proportion of persons with P. malariae in this sample population, as determined by slide examination, appears to be the greatest ever reported for any area before the introduction of control measures.
  • (19) The new slide latex particle agglutination test gave better results, with 100% specificity, 80% sensitivity, high predictive values (greater than or equal to 91%), and an overall diagnostic efficiency of 93%.
  • (20) No, Did they invent sliding fingers across substances?

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