Cataract vs Chute - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) A waterspout
A large waterfall; steep rapids in a river.
A flood of water (rfex)
An overwhelming downpour or rush
(pathology) A disease of the eye causing its opacity and, unless treated, leading to blindness.
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A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.
parachute
Cataract is a related term of chute.
As a noun cataract
is (obsolete) a waterspout.As a verb chute is
.cataract
English
(wikipedia cataract)Noun
(en noun)- ''The cataracts on the Nile helped compartiment Upper Egypt
- ''His cataract of eloquence
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