Parachute

Word PARACHUTE
Character 9
Hyphenation par a chute
Pronunciations /ˈpæɹəʃuːt/

Definitions and meanings of "Parachute"

What do we mean by parachute?

An apparatus used to retard free fall from an aircraft, consisting of a light, usually hemispherical canopy attached by cords to a harness and worn or stored folded until deployed in descent. noun

Any of various similar unpowered devices that are used for retarding free-speeding or free-falling motion. noun

To drop (supplies or troops, for example) by means of a parachute. intransitive verb

To descend by means of a parachute. intransitive verb

To descend by or as if by the aid of a parachute.

An apparatus, usually of an umbrella shape, 20 or 30 feet in diameter, carried in a balloon, that the aëronaut may by its aid drop to the ground without sustaining injury. noun

A safety-cage (which see). noun

In zoology, same as patagium. noun

A broad-brimmed hat worn by women toward the close of the eighteenth century. noun

A large funnel of tinned copper set in the skimming-vat of a brewery, the mouth on a level with the surface of the beer, used to receive and carry off the yeast which is skimmed into it by means of a plank paddle. noun

In botany, a down or tuft of hairs attached to a seed enabling it to float in the air as if supported by a parachute: most properly, a tuft supported by a long beak as in the dandelion (see pappus, cut a), but also applied more broadly. Often adjectival, as in the phrases parachute mechanisms, parachute seeds, etc. noun

TO descend to th ground from an airplane or other high place using a parachute intransitive verb

A generous set of financial benefits, including severance pay, provided by contract to a high-level corporate employee in the event s/he is dismissed or his/her job is lost in a corporate takeover or merger; also, the contract providing for such benefits. intransitive verb

A small parachute that is first released and opened in order to more reliably deploy a larger parachute. Also called drogue. intransitive verb

A device made of a piece of cloth, usually silk, attached to multiple chords fastened to a harness; when attached to a person or object falling through the air, it opens from a folded configuration into an umbrella-shaped form, thus slowing the rate of descent so that a safe descent and landing may be made through the air from an airplane, balloon, or other high point. It is commonly used for descending to the ground from a flying airplane, as for military operations (as of airborne troops) or in an emergency, or for sport. In the case of use as a sport, the descent from an airplane by parachute is called sky diving. Some older versions of parachute were more rigid, and were shaped somewhat in the form of an umbrella. noun

A web or fold of skin which extends between the legs of certain mammals, as the flying squirrels, colugo, and phalangister. noun

A device, generally constructed from fabric, that is designed to employ air resistance to control the fall of an object. noun

A web or fold of skin extending between the legs of gliding mammals, such as the flying squirrel and colugo. noun

To jump, fall, descend, etc. using such a device. verb

To be placed in an organisation in a position of seniority without having previous experience there. verb

A device, generally constructed from fabric, that is designed to employ air resistance to control the fall of an object.

A web or fold of skin extending between the legs of gliding mammals, such as the flying squirrel and colugo.

(BDSM) A small collar which fastens around the scrotum and from which weights can be hung.

Ingesting a powdered substance, usually a crushed up pill, by wrapping it in some toilet paper and swallowing it. Urban Dictionary

The act of ingesting a powdered drug wrapped in toilet paper or another similar kind of thin paper so as to avoid the nasty taste of the substance. Another use for this method is for the drug to suppousedly "hit your system faster" which is not always the case. Urban Dictionary

When a man stratches out his testicle skin and places it over someone face Urban Dictionary

A device that someone uses to catch air and slowly decend to the ground Urban Dictionary

Billys vagina, aka large enough to float one's self down from a large fall. Urban Dictionary

When half a pop bottle has a bag on the other half, light the top and then pull the bag down slowly, remove the bowl and hit from it Urban Dictionary

Refers to a round rather than rectangular device used by paraglider pilots to desend safely when then existing rectangular wing, and therefore steerable wing, has been compromised to the degree that death or serious injury is eminent. Urban Dictionary

Huge white bloomers Urban Dictionary

Simply the equipment of a parachutist or a paratrooper that allows one to make a safe landing after jumping off an aircraft, not a fucking way of taking in some psychoactive or psychedelic shit Urban Dictionary

Grinding up pills, wrapping them in a napkin, and swallowing the napkin as a method of administering the drugs. The high from parachuting last longer and is more intense than snorting, and generally thought of as safer than injecting. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Parachute

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The word "parachute" in example sentences

We will give people t-shirts and parachute men painted gold because McGavick is getting a �golden parachute� with the $4.5 million in stock options he is getting from Safeco Insurance. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The term parachute almost makes it seem like there's some sort of financial salvation out there for everyone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Like most aspects of early hip-hop, these baggy pants were appropriated into mainstream culture, where the term parachute expanded to describe the large amount of fabric used for them. ❋ Alex Harlig (2008)

Falling off a 700 story building without a parachute is a real Howler. ❋ Blue Tyson (2008)

Today, a parachute is a drag chute and both crewmen were onboard the aircraft. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Over the years he's developed a technique in which he sketches out his works, then paints them in sections on what he calls parachute paper, a thin but durable substance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mere-Eglise bars, Manoian, wearing a scarf purportedly made from his D-Day parachute, is feted as a hero. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I agree: if a golden parachute is the difference between black and red ink, then the golden parachute oughta go. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She should use her golden parachute from the company she ran into the ground, Hewlett-Packard, to finance her own campaign. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was called “the belly pack, †because the rest of the soldier†™ s gear was worn below the main parachute pack on the soldier†™ s back. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My main parachute had malfunctioned and all my attempts to correct it proved futile. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Who took a 90 million dollar golden parachute from a publicly funded mortgage company and then served as campaign manager? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Then I released the second (last) buckle, dramatically accelerated downward, and saw the tangled mess of the main parachute assembly, shroud-lines, and canopy material fly away from me like a bird of prey releasing a mouse that was too small to eat. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The concept is to parachute from a fixed object, usually one of theobjects mentioned above. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Instead of buying a Tippet Post, I just took a piece of thin parachute cord, made it into a loop, and fed one end of the loop through the tippet rolls, send the other end of the loop through the end pushed through the centers, and hook it to my vest, waders, or pack with a small carabiner. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The implication that the witnesses lost sight of the parachute is designed to give the impression that witnesses did not get a good look at it. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Man, I just parachuted [that E] [pill], it's gunna [hit me] alot faster. ❋ JDG (2003)

[I accidentally] crushed [a bean]([MDMA]), and i didn't want to snort it or waste it, so i decided to parachute it. ❋ D.roc (2006)

dude, [Ryan] just gave [Dustin] [the biggest] parachute ❋ Alan (2003)

Bob [fell] [slowly] [to the ground] because of his open parachute ❋ Paul Upton (2004)

billy just [jump] ur [parachute pussy] will [float] u down ❋ Pussywacker (2011)

man you got a [great] [toke] [off that] parachute ❋ Pothead (2005)

If a [paraglider] pilot determines that existing wing is unflyable they must throw a reserve parachute to arrest their descent or risk death or injury. One drawback, parachutes are unsteerable, if you happen to be flying over a [Redwood forest], or some 500,000 volt power lines, Mt Everest, you can imagine the [sinking feeling]?... ❋ Adventureboy (2009)

Mike: That gal you picked up last night just left when you were in the shower. Harvey: Thanks. Mike: You sure can [pick em]. She was a [big gal]. Harvey: I know, when I woke up out of my [stupor] I saw her underwear on the floor. I thought I left my window open and a parachute landed through the window. Never again, man. ❋ Cut The Cards (2023)

Joe was high in the air, enjoying [the descent] on a parachute, while Roger was high on drugs, [weakly] [supine] on the floor. ❋ Fu55ball (2006)

"Yesterday I got 100mg of [morphine], so I ended up [grinding] [it up] and parachuting it before English. God I love english." ❋ Rapheal (2006)

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