Chute or Chutes, may refer to:
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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.
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, a channel down which falling materials are guided
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Chute (landform), a steep-sided passage through which water flows rapidly
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Escape chute, an emergency exit utilized where conventional fire escapes are impractical
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Mail chute, a letter collection device
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Parachute, a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag
People
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Anthony Chute
Anthony Chute ( fl. 1590s – 1595) was an English poet and pamphleteer. Very little is known about him.
Life
Chute appears to have been a protégé of Gabriel Harvey. Harvey refers to him in his work ''Pierces Supererogation'', saying that Ch ...
(fl. 1590s–1595), Elizabethan poet and pamphleteer
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Chaloner Chute (died 1659), English lawyer and Speaker of the House of Commons
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Christopher G. Chute
Christopher G. Chute is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, physician-scientist and Health informatics, biomedical informatician known for Controlled vocabulary, biomedical termi ...
(born 1955), American biomedical informatics researcher
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Hillary Chute (born 1976), American academic
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Marchette Chute (1909–1994), American biographer
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Philip Chute
Philip Chute or Chowte (born by 1506 – 1567), of Horne Place, Appledore, Kent, was an English member of parliament in Elizabethan England. He is the progenitor of Chute dynasty in England and Ireland from the Chutes of Hampshire and Norfolk, ...
(1506–1567), English Member of Parliament
Places
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Chute, Wiltshire, a parish in England, United Kingdom
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Chute River, a short river in Maine, United States
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Chute, Victoria
Chute is a locality in central Victoria, Australia. The locality is in the Shire of Pyrenees local government area, west of the state capital, Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and mo ...
, a locality in Australia
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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 ...
(french: Chutes River; Falls River), a river in Mauricie, Quebec, Canada
Facilities and structures
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Pont des Chutes (french: Chutes Bridge; Falls Bridge), a covered bridge in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada
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École secondaire des Chutes (disambiguation) (french: Chutes Secondary School; Falls Secondary); highschools
Television
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''Chute!'' (television programme), a children's programme
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The Chute", a 1996 episode in the third season of ''Star Trek: Voyager''
Other uses
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Chutes and ladders
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Pilot chute, a small auxiliary parachute used to deploy a main parachute
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Chute (racecourse), a projection extending from either end of an oval-shaped racecourse
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Squeeze chute, a cage for restraining a farm animal
* Chute (in North America), a
cattle race, a channel for handling and sorting farm animals
See also
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Shoot (disambiguation)
A shoot is an immature plant or portion of a plant.
Shoot may also refer to:
* Photo shoot, a photography session; an event wherein a photographer takes photographs
* Shooting, the firing of projectile weapons
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Shute (disambiguation) Shute may refer to:
Places
* Shute, Devon, village in Devon, near Axminster
** Shute Barton, mediaeval manor house, located at Shute
* Shute Harbour, Australia
* Shute Park (Oregon), park in Hillsboro, Oregon
People with the surname
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Deschutes (disambiguation)
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