Word: gate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 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. Pronunciation: /ˈɡeɪ̯t/, /ˈɡæɪ̯t/, [ˈɡæ̝ɪ̯t], /ɡet/, /ɡeːt/ 1. A doorlike structure outside a house. 2. A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall. Example: 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. 3. A movable barrier. Example: The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed. 4. A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark. 5. A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade. Example: 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. 6. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event. 7. A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc. 8. The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET). 9. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into. 10. The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge. 11. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git. 12. The gap between a batsman's bat and pad. Example: Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out. 13. A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture. Example: 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. 14. A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots. 15. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five. 16. An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks. Example: 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. Example: 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. 17. A place where drugs are illegally sold. Labels: slang Example: The gangs were fighting for control of "drug gates," control points for the sale of crack cocaine, heroin and marijuana. Example: 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. 18. A man; a male person. Labels: dated Example: Whatcha gonna say there, gate? Example: He said, "Come on, gates, and jump with me / At the June Teenth Jamboree." 19. A tunnel serving the coal face.