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DictionarychuteDownward passage
noun

chute

SHOOT/ʃuːt/

A sloping channel or passage through which things slide or drop.

Potatoes slide down the metal chute from the hopper into a crate.

An open, steeply sloping metal chute carries loose potatoes from an elevated hopper into a crate below.
Etymology
chuteLatinto fall

The root means “to fall,” and chute first named a fall of water in English. The meaning shifted to an inclined trough or tube—a passage that guides things as they descend.

In context

University of Greenwich20:21
… dropped down a chute from one process to another and the counterflow of air causes the fines to be stripped out …
Wolfson Centre Services | Tour of the pilot plant and testing laboratories

More examples

  • A metal chute carried grain into the truck.
  • The package slid smoothly through the chute.
  • Two chutes emptied into the same storage bin.

Forms

chute · chutes

Similar words

slide
Often a surface people use for play rather than a delivery channel.
channel
Channel is broader and need not guide material downward.