chute

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

chute [chute chutes] BrE [ʃuːt] NAmE [ʃuːt] noun
1. a tube or passage down which people or things can slide
•a water chute (= at a swimming pool)
•a laundry/rubbish/garbage chute (= from the upper floors of a high building)
2. (informal) = ↑parachute

Word Origin:
sense 1 early 19th cent. French Old French cheoite cheoir ‘to fall’ Latin cadere ↑shootsense 2 1920s

Example Bank:
•He tossed the discarded wrapping down the chute.
•The rubbish goes down the chute into a large bin.
•a swimming pool with a long water chute

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  slide, slideway, sloping trough, parachute, jump