What does parachute mean?

Definitions for parachute
ˈpær əˌʃutpara·chute

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. parachute, chuteverb

    rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall

  2. chute, parachute, jumpverb

    jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute

GCIDE

  1. parachuteverb

    TO descend to th ground from an airplane or other high place using a parachute; as, when the plane stalled, he parachuted safely to the ground.

Wiktionary

  1. parachutenoun

    A device, generally constructed from fabric, that is designed to employ air resistance to control the fall of an object.

  2. parachuteverb

    To jump, fall, descend, etc. using such a device.

  3. parachuteverb

    To be placed in an organisation in a position of seniority without having previous experience there.

  4. Etymology: From parachute, from para- (as in parasol) and chute.

Wikipedia

  1. Parachute

    A parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag or, in a ram-air parachute, aerodynamic lift. A major application is to support people, for recreation or as a safety device for aviators, who can exit from an aircraft at height and descend safely to earth. A parachute is usually made of a light, strong fabric. Early parachutes were made of silk. The most common fabric today is nylon. A parachute's canopy is typically dome-shaped, but some are rectangles, inverted domes, and other shapes. A variety of loads are attached to parachutes, including people, food, equipment, space capsules, and bombs.

ChatGPT

  1. parachute

    A parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag, or in the case of ram-air parachutes, aerodynamic lift. It is usually a fabric device deployed from a high point, and it opens to create a large surface area that catches the air and slows down the speed of descent, allowing a person or object attached to it to reach the ground safely. Parachutes are commonly used in aircraft emergencies, or for recreational activities such as skydiving.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Parachutenoun

    a contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence

  2. Parachutenoun

    a web or fold of skin which extends between the legs of certain mammals, as the flying squirrels, colugo, and phalangister

  3. Etymology: [F., fr. parer to ward off, guard + chute a fall. See Parry, and Chute, Chance.]

Wikidata

  1. Parachute

    A parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag, or in the case of ram-air parachutes, aerodynamic lift. Parachutes are usually made out of light, strong cloth, originally silk, now most commonly nylon. Parachutes must slow an object's terminal vertical speed by a minimum 75% in order to be classified as such. Depending on the situation, parachutes are used with a variety of loads, including people, food, equipment, space capsules, and bombs. Drogue chutes are used to aid horizontal deceleration of a vehicle, or to provide stability. The word "parachute" comes from the French prefix paracete, originally from the Greek, meaning to protect against, and chute, the French word for "fall", and it was originally coined, as a hybrid word which meant literally "that which protects against a fall", by the French aeronaut François Blanchard in 1785. The earliest evidence for the parachute dates back to the Renaissance period. The oldest parachute design appears in an anonymous manuscript from 1470s Renaissance Italy, showing a free-hanging man clutching a cross bar frame attached to a conical canopy. As a safety measure, four straps run from the ends of the rods to a waist belt. The design is a marked improvement over another folio which depicts a man trying to break the force of his fall by the means of two long cloth streamers fastened to two bars which he grips with his hands. Although the surface area of the parachute design appears to be too small to offer effective resistance to the friction of the air and the wooden base-frame is superfluous and potentially harming, the revolutionary character of the new concept is obvious.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Parachute

    par′a-shōōt, n. an apparatus like an umbrella for descending safely from a balloon.—v.t. and v.i. to descend by means of such.—n. Par′achutist. [Fr., for par' à chute, from Fr. parer—L. parāre, to prepare, chute, a fall—L. cadĕre.]

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz

  1. PARACHUTE

    A successful method for getting the drop on the Earth.

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Etymology and Origins

  1. Parachute

    From the Greek para, “beyond,” and the French chute, “a fall.”

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of parachute in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of parachute in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of parachute in a Sentence

  1. Nick Cowie:

    There were two base jumpers, we don’t know the guys, just as we got to the top and start of the Aonach Eagach ridge we heard the first parachute deploy and saw them, i was blown away really, it’s such a sharp drop and narrow gully, no margin for error. My heart was in my mouth when he jumped and we were elated to see him sail off into the distance.

  2. Carl Laurin:

    I always got the feeling that when Dan Cooper jumped with our team, the Michigan parachute team, it was a means of survival, not really for the thrill, dan Cooper was looking for something far beyond that.

  3. Justin Chapman:

    The parachute ripped off at launch, so the rocket went straight up in an arc and came straight down.

  4. Ralph King:

    The plan either way is send a message to the Republican establishment to respect Several Trump supporters votes, if the party tries to parachute in a white knight to steal the nomination, it's not going to end well.

  5. Christy West from Skydive Spaceland:

    She was doing her first' solo' training skydive, wearing her own parachute system and jumping with a dedicated instructor, the freefall portion of the skydive was uneventful ; however, there was a complication with the primary parachute.

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