GATE

gate

(noun) a movable barrier in a fence or wall

gate, logic gate

(noun) a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs

gate

(noun) passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark

gate

(noun) total admission receipts at a sports event

gate

(verb) restrict (school boys’) movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment

gate

(verb) control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate

gate

(verb) supply with a gate; “The house was gated”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

gate (plural gates)

A doorlike structure outside a house.

Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.

Movable barrier.

(computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.

(cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.

The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.

(flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.

Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.

(electronics) 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.

(metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.

The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.

(cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.

A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.

Synonyms

• (computing): logic gate

• (opening in a wall): doorway, entrance, passage

Verb

gate (third-person singular simple present gates, present participle gating, simple past and past participle gated)

To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.

To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.

Synonym: ground

(biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.

(transitive) To furnish with a gate.

(transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.

Etymology 2

Noun

gate (plural gates)

(now, Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.

(obsolete) A journey.

(Scotland, Northern England) 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".

(Britain, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.

Anagrams

• EGTA, ETag, Geat, e-tag, geat, geta

Noun

GATE (uncountable)

(education, initialism) gifted and talented education

Anagrams

• EGTA, ETag, Geat, e-tag, geat, geta

Proper noun

Gate

A ghost town in Scott County, Arkansas.

A tiny town in Beaver County, Oklahoma.

An unincorporated community in Thurston County, Washington.

Anagrams

• EGTA, ETag, Geat, e-tag, geat, geta

Source: Wiktionary

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Gate, n. Etym: [OE. et, , giat, gate, door, AS. geat, gat, gate, door; akin to OS., D., & Icel. gat opening, hole, and perh. to E. gate a way, gait, and get, v. Cf. Gate a way in the wall, 3d Get.]

1. A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.

2. An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit. Knowest thou the way to Dover Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath. Shak. Opening a gate for a long war. Knolles.

3. A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.

4. (Script.)

Definition: The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might. The gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Matt. xvi. 18.

5. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.

6. (Founding) (a) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate. (b) The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. [Written also geat and git.] Gate chamber, a recess in the side wall of a canal lock, which receives the opened gate.

– Gate channel. See Gate, 5.

– Gate hook, the hook-formed piece of a gate hinge.

– Gate money, entrance money for admission to an inclosure.

– Gate tender, one in charge of a gate, as at a railroad crossing.

– Gate valva, a stop valve for a pipe, having a sliding gate which affords a straight passageway when open.

– Gate vein (Anat.), the portal vein.

– To break gates (Eng. Univ.), to enter a college inclosure after the hour to which a student has been restricted.

– To stand in the gate, or gates, to occupy places or advantage, power, or defense.

Gate, v. t.

1. To supply with a gate.

2. (Eng. Univ.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.

Gate, n. Etym: [Icel. gata; akin to SW. gata street, lane, Dan. gade, Goth. gatwö, G. gasse. Cf. Gate a door, Gait.]

1. A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate). [O. Eng. & Scot.] I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate. Sir W. Scott.

2. Manner; gait. [O. Eng. & Scot.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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