drogue chute
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8.2
- noun
- /ˈdroʊɡ ʃuːt/
- Specialized
:
paracaídas de arrastre
- When the spacecraft re-entered the atmosphere, the drogue chute helped to control its descent speed.
Examples
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To ensure a safe landing, the divers used a drogue chute that stabilized their fall.
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At 20,000 feet, the drogue chutes deployed, followed by small pilot chutes that ultimately deployed the three huge parachutes seen here.
Blog text (7) -
The HumVee decelerated like a fighter jet deploying a drogue chute and swung to the right in a twelve-G turn.
Fiction book (1999) -
The Red Bull team equipped Baumgartner's rig with a special drogue chute that could have deployed to stabilize him if a suit-mounted G meter registered over 3.5 Gs for more than six seconds.
Blog text (32) -
The aircraft deployed a drogue chute to slow down during its landing approach.
Synonyms
119
2.0
A large piece of strong cloth that fills with air and slows a person's fall
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4.5
A strong cloth device that fills with air to slow the fall of a person or object
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9.9
A small parachute that slows or stabilizes a fast vehicle like a plane
A small parachute that slows something moving fast or helps open the main parachute
How Effective
Surface Forms
Morphology
Both constituents ('drogue' = small parachute; 'chute' = device to slow descent) directly contribute to the compound meaning, so a learner who knows those words can infer this denotes a parachute used to slow or stabilize an object. This is a straightforward, compositional technical compound rather than an idiom, so its meaning is predictable from the parts.
Etymology
Drogue chute names a small parachute that creates 'drag' to slow a fast object. The parts drogue, a small drag device, and chute, a parachute, explain why it means 'a parachute used to slow down' planes, cars, or spacecraft.