parachute
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 →
2) (verb) To parachute is to jump from a plane and come down with a parachute. tree →
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 →
- A parachute slows you down because of air resistance. tree →
- We made parachutes from plastic bags and string. tree →
- The bigger parachute took longer to fall. tree →
- Soldiers parachuted from the plane. tree →
- In PE we played games with a giant rainbow parachute. tree →
- Food was dropped by parachute to the village. tree →
- The rabbit was quite excited because he knew that he was to be taken up, and let down again in a parachute. tree →
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.
- Scientists found that a dandelion seed's parachute makes a little ring of swirling air above it that holds it up longer.
- In 2005 the European Huygens probe parachuted onto Titan, the most distant landing ever made.
- Air resistance is a kind of friction from the air; a parachute uses it to fall slowly.
Trees and pragmatics
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