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# parachute

noun (a parachute, parachutes); verb (parachute, parachutes, parachuted, parachuting)

«parachute» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A parachute is a large piece of cloth fixed to a person or thing by strings, which opens in the air and makes them fall slowly and safely. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parachute/#m1)
2. (verb) To parachute is to jump from a plane and come down with a parachute. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parachute/#m2)

### In the lessons

Used in science lessons about forces: air resistance (drag) pushes up on the parachute and slows the fall; a bigger parachute falls more slowly. Classroom experiments drop paper parachutes. In PE a big coloured play parachute is used for games.

### Examples

- The parachute opened and she floated down. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parachute/#x1)
- A parachute slows you down because of air resistance. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parachute/#x2)
- We made parachutes from plastic bags and string. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parachute/#x3)
- The bigger parachute took longer to fall. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parachute/#x4)
- Soldiers parachuted from the plane. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parachute/#x5)
- In PE we played games with a giant rainbow parachute. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parachute/#x6)
- Food was dropped by parachute to the village. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parachute/#x7)
- The rabbit was quite excited because he knew that he was to be taken up, and let down again in a parachute. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parachute/#x8)

### Note

Countable: a parachute. Pronounced "PARA-shoot". Science point: gravity still pulls; the parachute does not stop gravity, it only adds air resistance.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «parachute» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parachute/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«parachute» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/parachute.html) on Mova free.