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- 1 A ghost town in Scott County, Arkansas, United States.
- 2 A tiny town in Beaver County, Oklahoma, United States.
- 3 An unincorporated community in Thurston County, Washington, United States.
- 1 A doorlike structure outside a house.
- 2 A way, path. Northern-England, Scotland
"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."
- 3 gifted and talented education abbreviation, acronym, uncountable
- 4 a movable barrier in a fence or wall wordnet
- 5 A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
"At 7, he made his exit through the Ch‘ien-ch‘ing and the Lung-tsung gates, and thence, through the Yung-Hang Gate he entered the Tz‘u-ning Palace."
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- 6 A journey. obsolete
"[…] nought regarding, they kept on their gate, / And all her vaine allurements did forsake […]"
- 7 a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs wordnet
- 8 A movable barrier.
"The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed."
- 9 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". Northern-England, Scotland
- 10 passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark wordnet
- 11 A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- 12 Manner; gait. British, Scotland, archaic, dialectal
- 13 total admission receipts at a sports event wordnet
- 14 A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
"Lyons and Fisher's stations, who have spared nothing to ensure a success on this point, there is every reason to believe that the Northern Territory will soon be able to make a proper use of her geographical position, and become the gate of the East for all the Australian colonies."
- 15 The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- 16 A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- 17 The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- 18 In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- 19 The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
- 20 The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
- 21 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."
- 22 A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
"After all, not using film has advantages other than cost: the curse of getting a hair in the gate (the rectangular opening at the front of a camera) is gone; the problem of getting dirt on the film swept away."
- 23 A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- 24 A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
- 25 An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
"It would encompass more than 500 acres and include a new theme park, several hotels, two mammoth parking garages with direct access from the freeway and a "third gate" — land set aside for future expansion."
- 26 A place where drugs are illegally sold. slang
"The gangs were fighting for control of "drug gates," control points for the sale of crack cocaine, heroin and marijuana."
- 27 A man; a male person. dated
"Whatcha gonna say there, gate?"
- 28 A tunnel serving the coal face.
- 1 To keep something inside by means of a closed gate. transitive
- 2 restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment wordnet
- 3 To punish (a student) by not allowing to leave the college grounds. dated, historical, transitive
"You climbed the wall, for which you ought to be gated; and finally, you came in blotto, for which you ought to be sent down."
- 4 control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate wordnet
- 5 To open (a closed ion channel). transitive
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- 6 supply with a gate wordnet
- 7 To furnish with a gate. transitive
- 8 To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating. transitive
- 9 To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something). transitive
"Lillian walked the halls wearing a shirt plastered with what she assured everyone was a memetic stun agent; it looked just like the kill agent gating access to the SCP-001 database file, but as she patiently explained to McInnis, in art, context is everything."
Etymology
From Middle English gate, gat, ȝate, ȝeat, from Old English ġeat (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”). See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.
From Middle English gate, gat, ȝate, ȝeat, from Old English ġeat (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”). See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.
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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