GATED
Verb
gated
simple past tense and past participle of gate
Adjective
gated (not comparable)
Capable of being switched on and off (normally by means of a signal).
Have a gate or other restricted access.
Anagrams
• detag, tadge
Source: Wiktionary
Gat"ed, a.
Definition: Having gates. Young.
GATE
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