gate.
A doorlike structure outside a house.
Meaning & usage
A doorlike structure outside a house.
A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
A movable barrier.
The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out.
A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
A place where drugs are illegally sold.
A man; a male person.
A tunnel serving the coal face.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English gate (the forms ȝate and ȝeat yielded the dialectal doublet yate), from the plural of Old English ġeat (specifically gatu), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”). See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.
To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
To punish (a student) by not allowing to leave the college grounds.
To open (a closed ion channel).
To furnish with a gate.
To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).
Access to the building is gated by a security system.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English gate (the forms ȝate and ȝeat yielded the dialectal doublet yate), from the plural of Old English ġeat (specifically gatu), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”). See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.
A way, path.
A journey.
A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. “Briggate” (a common street name in the north of England meaning “Bridge Street”) or “Kirkgate” meaning “Church Street”.
Manner; gait.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ. Cognate with Danish gade, Swedish gata, German Gasse (“lane”). Doublet of gait.
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