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PARACHUTE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall

Synonyms:

chute; parachute

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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)

Derivation:

parachute (jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute)

parachutist (a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute

Synonyms:

chute; jump; parachute

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

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)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

parachute (rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall)

parachuter (a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute)

parachuting (descent with a parachute)

parachutist (a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute)

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