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# parachute

«parachute» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large piece of cloth fixed to a person or thing by…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parachute/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parachute/#x1)
- A parachute slows you down because of air resistance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parachute/#x2)
- We made parachutes from plastic bags and string. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parachute/#x3)
- The bigger parachute took longer to fall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parachute/#x4)
- Soldiers parachuted from the plane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parachute/#x5)
- In PE we played games with a giant rainbow parachute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parachute/#x6)
- Food was dropped by parachute to the village. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [Dandelion seeds float on tiny parachutes into pavement cracks, where dust and water collect, and a long taproot finds water deep down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/9/)
- [Scientists found that a dandelion seed's parachute makes a little ring of swirling air above it that holds it up longer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/3-parachutes-and-falling-safely/9/)
- [In 2005 the European Huygens probe parachuted onto Titan, the most distant landing ever made.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/9/)
- [Air resistance is a kind of friction from the air; a parachute uses it to fall slowly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/51-forces/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «parachute» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parachute/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.