gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
homophone: gait
Forms: form: gates
form: yate
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.
Senses: glosses: A doorlike structure outside a house.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1870 June [1870 April], “The Peking Gazettes”, in Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume 3, number 1, Foochow: American Presbyterian Mission Press, →OCLC, page 12, column 1:
synonyms: doorway
entrance
passage
glosses: A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
examples: text: The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
glosses: A movable barrier.
glosses: A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 246:
glosses: A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
glosses: The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: logic gate
glosses: A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
glosses: In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
glosses: The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
examples: text: Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2023 March 16, John Boorman, “Today’s ‘films’ are nothing of the sort – so stop calling them that”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
qualifier: flow cytometry
glosses: A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
glosses: A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1993 05, Rich Mannino, “The World According to Disney”, in Orange Coast Magazine, page 83:
text: Disneyland opened its second gate – Disney's California Adventure. It was located exactly where Westcot would have been, directly across a central plaza from the Disneyland main gate.
ref: 2006 August 1, Shaun Finnie, The Disneylands That Never Were, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 168:
text: At Disneyland Paris, the much-delayed “second gate,” a Walt Disney Studios theme park, opened on March 16.
ref: 2008 December 9, James B. Stewart, Disneywar: The Battle for the Magic Kingdom, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: For its part, Universal is also continuing to grow domestically, with its new second gate in Orlando – Volcano Bay – opening around the same time as Pandora.
ref: 2018 April 16, John Reynolds, Cambridge IGCSE First Language English 4th edition, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
examples: text: The gangs were fighting for control of "drug gates," control points for the sale of crack cocaine, heroin and marijuana.
ref: 1996 April 24, “Connecticut: Task Force Successful In Curbing Street Gangs”, in Organized Crime Digest, volume 17, number 9, Annandale, V.A.: Washington Crime News Service, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:
text: I put more guns in East Coast niggas' hands than East Coast niggas did when they came out here. I put them niggas on to more weed gates and weed spots and safe havens and safe spots than the East Coast did.
ref: 1996 June, Tupac Shakur, quotee, “Inside the Mind of Shakur”, in Tupac Shakur, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 101:
text: The spatial mapping of Jamaica onto U.S. cities entails the erection of dance halls, reggae clubs, smoking yards or "weed gates," select storefront vendors of Rasta apparel, ritual paraphernalia, and ital ("natural" and approved) foods (Hepner 1998: 206).
ref: 2007, Paul Christopher Johnson, Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa, Berkeley, C.A. […]: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 56:
text: The very first dread I worked with, Dusty, had his gate at 55 Bowen.
ref: 2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into The Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 69:
text: There's not a gate in the West Side area that lasts longer than a month other than the ones I service. Gates go up and come down just as fast.
ref: 2018, Robert Ricks, Fast Furious & Fatherless: An Urban Tale, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu Publishing Services, →ISBN, page 244:
glosses: A place where drugs are illegally sold.
examples: text: Whatcha gonna say there, gate?
ref: 1939, Cab Calloway, Frank Froeba, Jack Palmer, “Jumpin' Jive”:
text: He said, "Come on, gates, and jump with me / At the June Teenth Jamboree."
ref: 1940, Louis Jordan, “June Teenth Jamboree”, performed by Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five:
text: Louie wants you to get in there and lay yo' racket on that writin' machine so all the fine dinners and gates up in the land o' darkness will be hep and truck on down to this frolic pad 'cause the joint's really gonna be jumpin' and everythin' will be fine as wine like watermelon on the vine.
ref: 1944 December 8, “Broadway Jam Session”, in The Tampa Times:
synonyms: word: cat
word: dude
word: guy
word: bloke
word: boy
word: bro
word: broski
word: bruh
word: cat
word: chap
word: chappy
word: chield
word: cove
word: covey
word: dog [⇒ thesaurus] (slang)
word: dawg
word: dude
word: fella
word: fellow
word: gadgie
word: gate
word: geezer
word: gink
word: gloak
word: gome
word: guy
word: health
word: homeboy
word: homey
word: joe
word: lede
word: nigga
word: ninja
word: omi
word: pillicock
word: punk
word: rooster
word: seg
word: shalk
word: wallah
word: wer
word: were
word: wye
qualifier: jive talk
glosses: A man; a male person.
topics: business
mining
hyponyms: maingate
tailgate
glosses: A tunnel serving the coal face.
Derived terms: A20 gate
Abbey Gate
agate
age gate
Aldgate
algate
Ambergate
AND gate
arrival gate
Ashton Gate
baby gate
back gate
backgate
Baldwin's Gate
beartrap gate
beast-gate
Bishopsgate
Blackmoor Gate
boarding gate
boom gate
car gate
CCNOT gate
chamber gate
Choi Soon-sil-gate
Churchgate
Cilician Gates
corpse-gate
County Gates
Cross Gates
degate
departure gate
Deutsch gate
Dieselgate
difference gate
dragon gate
Duna-gate
Dzungarian Gate
e-gate
endgate
equivalence gate
eye-gate
faregate
farmgate
field-programmable gate array
flap gate
floodgate
flood gate
flood-gate
fluxgate
foregate
Forest Gate
Fredkin gate
front gate
garden gate
gateable
gate array
gate box
Gate City
gate crash
gate-crash
gatecrash
gate-crasher
gate crasher
gate fever
gatefold
Gategate
gate guard
gate guardian
gate-happy
gate house
gatehouse
gatekeep
gate-keep
gatekeeper
gate-keepy
gateleg
gateless
gate lice
gatelike
gateline
gateman
gate money
gate-money
gate of hell
gate of horn
gate of ivory
gatepier
gatepost
gate rape
gate receipts
Gates of Hercules
gatetender
gate time
gate-to-wire
gate valve
gate vein
gateware
gateway
gatewise
gatewoman
green gate
hair in the gate
Halton Lea Gate
handgate
headgate
hell gate
highgate
Hot Gates
Hutton Gate
Iron Gates
jade gate
jumpgate
Kara Gates
Kevin's Gate
kissing gate
kiss-me-at-the-gate
kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate
liftgate
like a bull at a gate
lock gate
logic gate
lych-gate
lychgate
Malay gate
matchgate
midgate
moongate
moon gate
Moravian Gate
Moses Gate
multigate
NAND gate
New Cross Gate
noise gate
NOR gate
NOT gate
OR gate
outgate
out of the gate
oxengate
oxgate
pearly gates
photogate
pincer gate
Pipe Gate
plantgating
proselyte of the gate
quantum gate
quantum logic gate
qugate
radial gate
rambler gate
right out of the gate
screwgate
sea gate
sluice gate
sluice-gate
sluice-gate price
snow gate
Southgate
Squires Gate
stairgate
stair gate
stand in the gate
Stanton Gate
stargate
Stargateverse
starting gate
Stonegate
straight out of the gate
tailgate
Tainter gate
Texas gate
through the gate
ticket gate
tide gate
timegate
Toffoli gate
tollgate
tori gate
trance gate
trigate
Two Gates
wastegate
waste gate
watergate
water gate
waygate
wicket gate
wombgate
Woodgate
XNOR gate
XOR gate