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Chutes and ladders; Pilot chute, a small auxiliary parachute used to deploy a main parachute; Chute (racecourse), a projection extending from either end of an oval-shaped racecourse; Squeeze chute, a cage for restraining a farm animal; Chute (in North America), a cattle race, a channel for handling and sorting farm animals
Chute is a surname, and may refer to: Anthony Chute (fl. 1590s–1595), Elizabethan poet and pamphleteer; B. J. Chute (1913–1987), American writer and academic; Carolyn Chute (born 1947), American writer and activist; Chaloner Chute (died 1659), English lawyer and Speaker of the House of Commons
The pronunciation with /n/ rather than /ŋ/ is a long-established one. Old English verbs had a present participle in -ende and a verbal noun ( gerund ) form in -ing(e) . These merged into a single form, written -ing , but not necessarily spoken as such – the /n/ pronunciation may be inherited from the former distinct present participle form.
A chute, also known as a race, flume, cat, or river canyon, is a steep-sided passage through which water flows rapidly. Akin to these, man-made chutes, such as the timber slide and log flume, were used in the logging industry to facilitate the downstream transportation of timber along rivers.
A hand-deployed pilot chute, once thrown into the air stream, pulls a closing pin on the pilot chute bridle to open the container, then the same force extracts the deployment bag. There are variations on hand-deployed pilot chutes, but the system described is the more common throw-out system.
Some varieties of flumes are used in measuring water flow of a larger channel. When used to measure the flow of water in open channels, a flume is defined as a specially shaped, fixed hydraulic structure that under free-flow conditions forces flow to accelerate in such a manner that the flow rate through the flume can be characterized by a level-to-flow relationship as applied to a single head ...
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For example, you may pronounce cot and caught the same, do and dew, or marry and merry. This often happens because of dialect variation (see our articles English phonology and International Phonetic Alphabet chart for English dialects). If this is the case, you will pronounce those symbols the same for other words as well. [1]