PARACHUTE
Dictionary entry overview: What does parachute mean?
• PARACHUTE (noun)
The noun PARACHUTE has 1 sense:
1. rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
Familiarity information: PARACHUTE used as a noun is very rare.
• PARACHUTE (verb)
The verb PARACHUTE has 1 sense:
1. jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
Familiarity information: PARACHUTE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PARACHUTE (noun)
Meaning:
Rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
chute; parachute
Hypernyms ("parachute" is a kind of...):
rescue equipment (equipment used to rescue passengers in case of emergency)
Meronyms (parts of "parachute"):
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; the cord is attached at one end to the aircraft and temporarily attached to the pack of a parachute at the other; it opens the parachute after the jumper is clear of the plane)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parachute"):
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)
• PARACHUTE (verb)
Meaning:
Jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
chute; parachute; jump
Hypernyms (to "parachute" is one way to...):
dive; plunge; plunk (drop steeply)
"Parachute" entails doing...:
glide (fly in or as if in a glider plane)
come down; descend; fall; go down (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "parachute"):
sky dive; skydive (jump from an airplane and perform various maneuvers before opening one's parachute)
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