different between chute vs chupe

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?(j)u?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t
• Homophone: shoot

Etymology 1

From French chute

Noun

chute (plural chutes)

1. A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.
2. A waterfall or rapid.
3. The pen in which an animal is confined before being released in a rodeo.

Derived terms

• laundry chute
• out of the chute
• straight out of the chute

Translations

Etymology 2

Short for parachute.

Noun

chute (plural chutes)

1. (informal) A parachute.
2. (nautical, slang, by extension) A spinnaker.

Translations

Verb

chute (third-person singular simple present chutes, present participle chuting, simple past and past participle chuted)

1. (informal, intransitive) To parachute.

Further reading

• chute at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• chuet, teuch

French

Etymology

From a refashioning of Old French cheüe, chue (from Vulgar Latin *caduta) based on cheoite (corresponding to an analogous Vulgar Latin form *cadecta), feminine past participle of cheoir, the older form of choir. Compare chu, past participle of choir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?yt/
• Homophones: chut

Noun

chute f (plural chutes)

1. fall

2. fall, drop (e.g. in price)
3. waterfall

4. punch line, conclusion (of a joke or a story, i.e. the last words that bring the comic effect or the conclusion)

5. final part of an ensemble or a shape

Synonyms

• (waterfall): cascade

Derived terms

• chute d'eau
• chute de tension
• chute libre
• point de chute

Verb

chute

1. first-person singular present indicative of chuter
2. third-person singular present indicative of chuter
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of chuter
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of chuter
5. second-person singular imperative of chuter

Further reading

• “chute” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Adjective

chute (masculine chu)

1. (France) feminine singular of chu

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English shoot

Noun

chute m (plural chutes)

1. kick

Spanish

Verb

chute

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of chutar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of chutar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of chutar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of chutar.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua chupi.

Noun

chupe (uncountable)

1. A stew containing meat and potatoes, part of Chilean and Peruvian cuisine.
   • 1854, William Lewis Herndon, Lardner Gibbon, Exploration of the Amazon Valley

     Chupe is the Peruvian national dish, and may be made of any and every thing, so long as it holds its relationship to soup. It is made generally of mutton, potatoes, eggs, rice, all highly seasoned with pepper, &c.

   • 1868, Harper's New Monthly Magazine

     And as chupe is the eternal and almost always the sole dish obtainable in the interior of Peru and in Bolivia, I may as well dispose of it at once.

   • 1985, Felipe Rojas-Lombardi, Soup, Beautiful Soup

     […] but for the most authentic chupe, leave the shells on the shrimp.

Portuguese

Verb

chupe

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of chupar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of chupar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of chupar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of chupar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??upe/, [?t??u.pe]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Quechua chupi.

Noun

chupe m (plural chupes)

1. (Chile, Peru, Panama) soup, made generally of potatoes, meat or fish and different vegetables

Etymology 2

Verb

chupe

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of chupar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of chupar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of chupar.