Chute or Chutes, may refer to: *

Chute (gravity) A chute is a vertical or inclined plane, channel, or passage through which objects are moved by means of gravity. Landform A chute, also known as a race, flume, cat, or river canyon, is a steep-sided passage through which water flows rapidly. A ...

, a channel down which falling materials are guided * Chute (landform), a steep-sided passage through which water flows rapidly *

Escape chute An escape chute is a special kind of emergency exit, used where conventional fire escape stairways are impractical. The chute is a fabric (or occasionally metal) tube installed near a special exit on an upper floor or roof of a building, or a tal ...

, an emergency exit utilized where conventional fire escapes are impractical *

Mail chute A mail chute is a device by which mail is collected for pick-up by a post office from within high-rise buildings, such as offices and hotels. Deposit boxes on upper floors are connected via a chute to a central depository at ground level, from ...

, a letter collection device * Parachute, a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag

People

* Anthony Chute (fl. 1590s–1595), Elizabethan poet and pamphleteer *

Chaloner Chute Chaloner Chute I (died 14 April 1659) of The Vyne, Sherborne St John, Hampshire, was an English lawyer, Member of Parliament and Speaker of the House of Commons during the Commonwealth. Origins Chute was the son of Charles Chute of the Midd ...

(died 1659), English lawyer and Speaker of the House of Commons * Christopher G. Chute (born 1955), American biomedical informatics researcher *

Hillary Chute Hillary Chute (born 1976 in Boston, MA) is an American literary scholar and an expert on comics and graphic narratives. She is Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern University. She was formerly Associate Professor ...

(born 1976), American academic * Marchette Chute (1909–1994), American biographer * Philip Chute (1506–1567), English Member of Parliament

Places

Chute, Wiltshire Chute is a civil parish in east Wiltshire, England, on the border with Hampshire. It includes the main village of Upper Chute and the smaller settlements of Lower Chute, Chute Standen, Chute Cadley and Mount Cowdown. The settlements are sometimes ...

, a parish in England, United Kingdom *

Chute River Long Lake is an lake between the towns of Naples, Maine, Bridgton, Maine and Harrison, Maine. It is connected to Brandy Pond (Cumberland County, Maine), Brandy Pond through the Chute River. Long Lake was created by receding glaciers, and has m ...

, a short river in Maine, United States * Chute, Victoria, a locality in Australia *

Rivière des Chutes (Batiscan River tributary) The Rivière des Chutes (''English: River of the Falls'') drains mainly the municipality of Saint-Narcisse, and also Saint-Stanislas, at the end of its course. These municipalities are located in the Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality, in t ...

(french: Chutes River; Falls River), a river in Mauricie, Quebec, Canada

Facilities and structures

Pont des Chutes The pont des Chutes is a covered bridge in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada. Among the last in Quebec, 34 covered bridges were constructed in Abitibi, and are associated with the colonisation of the region in the early 1900s. Today fewer than ...

(french: Chutes Bridge; Falls Bridge), a covered bridge in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada *

École secondaire des Chutes (disambiguation) École secondaire des Chutes (french: Chutes Secondary School; Falls Secondary) may refer to: * École secondaire des Chutes (Rawdon) of the Commission scolaire des Samares The Centre de services scolaire des Samares is a francophone school distri ...

(french: Chutes Secondary School; Falls Secondary); highschools

Television

* ''Chute!'' (television programme), a children's programme * " The Chute", a 1996 episode in the third season of ''Star Trek: Voyager''

Other uses

* Chutes and ladders *

Pilot chute A pilot chute is a small auxiliary parachute used to deploy the main or reserve parachute. The pilot chute is connected by a bridle to the deployment bag containing the parachute. Pilot chutes are a critical component of all modern skydiving and B ...

, a small auxiliary parachute used to deploy a main parachute *

Chute (racecourse) In horse racing, a chute is an extended path increasing the length of a straight portion of a racecourse, particularly an oval-shaped one, allowing races of a specified distance to start at a location other than on one of the turns. For example, m ...

, a projection extending from either end of an oval-shaped racecourse *

Squeeze chute A cattle crush (in UK, New Zealand, Ireland, Botswana and Australia), squeeze chute ( North America), cattle chute ( North America), standing stock, or simply stock (North America, Ireland) is a strongly built stall or cage for holding cattl ...

, a cage for restraining a farm animal * Chute (in North America), a

cattle race A cattle chute (North America) or cattle race (Australia, British Isles and New Zealand) also called a run or alley, is a narrow corridor built for cattle that separates them from the rest of the herd and allows handlers and veterinarians to prov ...

, a channel for handling and sorting farm animals

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