Definitions for parachute

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parachute par·a·chute

Spelling: [par-uh-shoot]

IPA: /ˈpær əˌʃut/

Parachute is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 461 anagrams from letters in parachute (aacehprtu).

Definitions for parachute

noun

1. a folding, umbrellalike, fabric device with cords supporting a harness or straps for allowing a person, object, package, etc., to float down safely through the air from a great height, especially from an aircraft, rendered effective by the resistance of the air that expands it during the descent and reduces the velocity of its fall.
2. parachute brake.
3. Horology. a shockproofing device for the balance staff of a watch, consisting of a yielding, springlike support for the bearing at either end.
4. Informal. the aggregate of benefits, as severance pay or vacation pay, given an employee who is dismissed from a company. golden parachute.

verb (used with object)

1. to drop or land (troops, equipment, supplies, etc.) by parachute.

verb (used without object)

1. to descend by parachute.

Origin of parachute

1775-85; French, equivalent to para- para-² + chute fall; see chute¹

Examples for parachute

He came down by parachute, without the ball in which he should have sealed himself.

Daniel Craig, in his finest Bond dinner jacket, called at the Palace and invited her to parachute into the stadium with him.

This was attached to a parachute which, if the emergency arose, could be dropped.

Your hand weapons and food supplies will be dropped by parachute as we leave.

He had no parachute and no life belt or Mae West suit to float him.

And for wingsuit divers, the only way flight can be “real” is if one can land without a parachute.

The second story, which really picks up steam in the latter half of the book, is the race to land without a parachute.

The modern history of the flight, however, gets its start with Jacques-Sébastien Lenormand and his parachute in 1783.

Are you the kind of criminal who steals a plane and then jumps without a parachute from high over a body of water?

He knew he was falling, jerking down as the parachute ripped on the boughs.