What does parachute mean?
Definitions for parachute
ˈpær əˌʃutpara·chute
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Princeton's WordNet
parachute, chuteverb
rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
chute, parachute, jumpverb
jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
GCIDE
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
parachutenoun
A device, generally constructed from fabric, that is designed to employ air resistance to control the fall of an object.
parachuteverb
To jump, fall, descend, etc. using such a device.
parachuteverb
To be placed in an organisation in a position of seniority without having previous experience there.
Etymology: From parachute, from para- (as in parasol) and chute.
Wikipedia
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
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
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
Parachutenoun
a web or fold of skin which extends between the legs of certain mammals, as the flying squirrels, colugo, and phalangister
Etymology: [F., fr. parer to ward off, guard + chute a fall. See Parry, and Chute, Chance.]
Wikidata
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
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
PARACHUTE
A successful method for getting the drop on the Earth.
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Etymology and Origins
Parachute
From the Greek para, “beyond,” and the French chute, “a fall.”
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of parachute in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of parachute in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of parachute in a Sentence
The beauty of drones is that they are cheap, easy to use and people can be taught to use them quickly, so there is no need for foreign aid workers to parachute into disaster zones.
It’s low. There’s not a lot of time for anything other than to get a parachute out and to land.
Dan and Liam have done the job hosting NBC’s NFL coverage all season. It wouldn’t be right for me to parachute in and do the Super Bowl.
Me and my groomsmen are about to jump out of a plane at 10,000 feet and just hope the parachute opens.
The parachute ripped off at launch, so the rocket went straight up in an arc and came straight down.
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- valskermAfrikaans
- براشوتArabic
- paraşütAzerbaijani
- парашу́тBelarusian
- парашу́тBulgarian
- প্যারাশুটBengali
- harz-lammBreton
- paracaigudesCatalan, Valencian
- padákCzech
- faldskærmDanish
- FallschirmGerman
- αλεξίπτωτοGreek
- paraŝuto, paraŝutiEsperanto
- paracaídasSpanish
- langevariEstonian
- jausgailu, paraxutBasque
- چتر نجات, پاراشوتPersian
- laskuvarjo, hypätäFinnish
- parachute, parachuterFrench
- paracaídasGalician
- מצנחHebrew
- पैराशूटHindi
- ejtőernyőzik, ejtőernyőHungarian
- պարաշյուտArmenian
- paracaditaInterlingua
- parasutIndonesian
- parafalo, parashutoIdo
- fallhlífIcelandic
- paracaduteItalian
- パラシュート, 落下傘Japanese
- პარაშუტიGeorgian
- парашютKazakh
- ឆ័ត្រយោងKhmer
- ಧುಮುಕುಕೊಡೆKannada
- 落下傘, 낙하산Korean
- پهڕاشوتKurdish
- парашютKyrgyz
- umbrella descensoriaLatin
- ຈ້ອງໂດດLao
- parašiutasLithuanian
- izpletnisLatvian
- падобранMacedonian
- шүхэрMongolian
- payung terjunMalay
- fallskjermNorwegian
- valscherm, parachuteDutch
- spadochronPolish
- pára-quedasPortuguese
- parașutăRomanian
- парашю́тRussian
- padobran, падобранSerbo-Croatian
- පැරෂුටයSinhala, Sinhalese
- padákSlovak
- padaloSlovene
- parashutëAlbanian
- hoppa fallskärm, fallskärmSwedish
- పారాచూట్Telugu
- парашютTajik
- ร่มชูชีพThai
- paraşütTurkmen
- parakaydaTagalog
- paraşütTurkish
- парашу́тUkrainian
- parashutUzbek
- cái dùVietnamese
- 降落伞Chinese
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