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A polite slide for things too lazy or doomed to take the stairs.
means A smooth, sloping or vertical channel down which things slide or fall by gravity, whether laundry, coal, water, or grain.
from Straight from French chute, 'a fall,' from Old French cheoite, the past participle of cheoir, 'to fall' — itself from Latin cadere, 'to fall' (the same root that gives us 'cadence' and 'decay'). In America the French word for 'fall' got tangled up with English 'shoot' (as in a shooting rapid), so a watery chute and a thing you shoot down a slide became happy bedfellows. And yes, 'parachute' is literally 'against the fall.'
- gravity's intern
- Does the falling so you don't have to
- french roots
- From French for fall, literally named after dropping
- parachute
- Same word, plus para meaning against falling
- coal era
- Buildings once piped coal down chutes by gravity
- laundry myth
- Vintage homes hid whole vertical clothes-eating shafts
niagara falls — 188-foot waterfall on the border between ontario, canada and new york, usa, visited by 30 million people annually
montmorency falls — 275-foot waterfall near quebec city, canada, higher than niagara falls
kaieteur falls — 741-foot single-drop waterfall in guyana, one of the world's highest uninterrupted waterfalls