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parachute
To jump, fall, descend, etc. using such a device
To be placed in an organisation in a position of seniority without having previous experience there
{n} a thing to descend through the air by
A device, generally constructed from fabric, that is designed to employ air resistance to control the fall of an object
Sometimes used to describe a spinnaker
rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
{i} cloth dome-shaped device used for descent from airplanes
A parachute is a device which enables a person to jump from an aircraft and float safely to the ground. It consists of a large piece of thin cloth attached to your body by strings. They fell 41,000 ft. before opening their parachutes
Another name for a balloon spinnaker
To parachute something somewhere means to drop it somewhere by parachute. Supplies were parachuted into the mountains. = drop. Umbrella-like device for slowing the descent of a body falling through the atmosphere. Separate panels sewn together form a canopy attached by suspension lines to a harness worn by the user. Originally designed to provide a safe escape from a disabled aircraft, parachutes are also used for dropping supplies and for slowing returning space capsules. The parachute was conceived by the 14th century, but practical demonstrations began only in the 1780s in France, leading in 1797 to a 3,200-ft (1,000-m) exhibition jump from a balloon by André-Jacques Garnerin (1769-1823); in 1802 he made a jump of 8,000 ft (2,400 m). Early parachute material was canvas, which was later replaced by silk and then nylon. See also skydiving
A web or fold of skin which extends between the legs of certain mammals, as the flying squirrels, colugo, and phalangister
A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence
jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
1 a falling or jumping organism having behavioral or morphological mechanisms to increase drag As cited in
rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
If a person parachutes or someone parachutes them somewhere, they jump from an aircraft using a parachute. He was a courier for the Polish underground and parachuted into Warsaw He was parachuted in
a large cloth device that opens up like an umbrella; it is used for slowing down a person or thing dropping from an aircraft
A drag producing device, generally hemispherical (half-sphere) in shape; generally made of light plastic
A fabric device that slows the descent of a falling object; derived from the French words "para," to shield, and "chute," to fall Thus, parachute literally means "to shield from a fall "
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