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  2. Chute - Wikipedia

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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

  3. Marchette Chute - Wikipedia

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    Marchette Chute was born in Wayzata, Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class family. Her father William Chute was a realtor, and her English mother Edith Mary Pickburn Chute had been a hospital nurse in London. She attended Central High School in Minneapolis, and was then a student at the University of Minnesota. After her father's death in 1939 ...

  4. Drogue parachute - Wikipedia

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    A drogue pilot chute decelerating a pair of tandem skydivers. Drogue parachutes are sometimes used to deploy a main or reserve parachute by using the drag generated by the drogue to pull the main parachute out of its container. Such a drogue is referred to as a pilot chute when used in a single user (sports) parachute system. The pilot chute is ...

  5. Chute (surname) - Wikipedia

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    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

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    The AOL.com video experience serves up the best video content from AOL and around the web, curating informative and entertaining snackable videos.

  7. Chute (gravity) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Phonological history of English consonant clusters - Wikipedia

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    The change of [ɪ] to [j] in these positions (as described above) produced some clusters which would have been difficult or impossible to pronounce, which led to what John Wells calls Early Yod Dropping in which the [j] was elided in the following environments: [5] After /ʃ, tʃ, dʒ/, for example chute /ʃuːt/, chew /tʃuː/, juice /dʒuːs/

  9. Pronunciation - Wikipedia

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    Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect ("correct" or "standard" pronunciation) or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language.