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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