| NOUN | artifact | parachute, chute | rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall |
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| VERB | motion | parachute, chute, jump | jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute |
| Sounds | peh'rahshuw.t | |
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| Rhymes | absolute ... uproot: 81 rhymes with uwt... | |
| Meaning | rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall. | |
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| Synonym | chute | |
| Parts | canopy | The umbrellalike part of a parachute that fills with air |
| harness | A support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute) | |
| ripcord | A cord that is pulled to open a parachute from its pack during a descent | |
| shroud | A line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute | |
| static line | A cord used instead of a ripcord to open a parachute | |
| Narrower | drogue, drogue chute, drogue parachute | A parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly |
| drogue parachute | A small parachute that pulls the main parachute from its storage pack | |
| parasail | parachute that will lift a person up into the air when it is towed by a motorboat or a car | |
| Broader | rescue equipment | equipment used to rescue passengers in case of emergency |
| Nouns | parachutist | a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute |
| Verbs | parachute | jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute |
| Meaning | Jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Synonyms | chute, jump | |
| Entails | descend, fall, go down, come down | Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way |
| glide | fly in or as if in a glider plane | |
| Narrower | sky dive, skydive | Jump from an airplane and perform various maneuvers before opening one's parachute |
| Broader | dive, plunge, plunk | Drop steeply |
| Nouns | parachute | rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall |
| parachuting | descent with a parachute | |
| parachutist, parachuter | a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute | |