gate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: gates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: yate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A doorlike structure outside a house.
pos: noun
gloss: A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A movable barrier.
pos: noun
examples: The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
gloss: A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
pos: noun
gloss: A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
pos: noun
gloss: A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
pos: noun
gloss: In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
pos: noun
gloss: The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
pos: noun
gloss: The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
pos: noun
gloss: The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
pos: noun
examples: Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out.
gloss: A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
pos: noun
gloss: A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
pos: noun
gloss: An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
At Disneyland Paris, the much-delayed “second gate,” a Walt Disney Studios theme park, opened on March 16.
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.
gloss: A place where drugs are illegally sold.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The gangs were fighting for control of "drug gates," control points for the sale of crack cocaine, heroin and marijuana.
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.
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).
The very first dread I worked with, Dusty, had his gate at 55 Bowen.
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.
gloss: A man; a male person.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: Whatcha gonna say there, gate?
He said, "Come on, gates, and jump with me / At the June Teenth Jamboree."
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.
gloss: A tunnel serving the coal face.
pos: noun
gloss: To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To punish (a student) by not allowing to leave the college grounds.
pos: verb
tags: dated
historical
transitive
examples: 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.
“I’ve missed two lectures already,” remarked Maurice, who was breakfasting in his pyjamas.
“Cut them all — he’ll only gate you.”
Dons could ring the front bell and be admitted after that hour. But students who returned after midnight or who stayed out all night were fined heavily or “gated” – that is, forbidden to leave college for several days.
gloss: To open (a closed ion channel).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To furnish with a gate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
Derived words: A20 gate
Abbey Gate
agate
age gate
Aldgate
algate
Ambergate
AND gate
arrival gate
Ashton Gate
baby gate
backgate
back gate
Baldwin's Gate
beartrap gate
beast-gate
Bishopsgate
Blackmoor Gate
boarding gate
Bogan Gate
boom gate
bridle gate
Broughams Gate
Burragate
car gate
Caspian Gates
CCNOT gate
chamber gate
Choi Soon-sil-gate
Churchgate
Cilician Gates
Clergate
corpse-gate
County Gates
Cross Gates
degate
departure gate
Deutsch gate
Dieselgate
difference gate
dragon gate
Duna-gate
Dzungarian Gate
East Newdegate
e-gate
endgate
equivalence gate
eye-gate
faregate
farmgate
field-programmable gate array
five-bar gate
five-barred gate
flap gate
flood gate
floodgate
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
gate-keep
gatekeep
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
Gateshead
Gates of Alexander
Gates of Hercules
gatetender
gate time
gate-toothed
gate-to-wire
gate valve
gate vein
gateware
gateway
Gateway Island
gatewise
gatewoman
Grays Gate
hair in the gate
Halton Lea Gate
handgate
Harrogate
headgate
hell gate
highgate
Highgate
Highgate Hill
Holgate
Hot Gates
Hutton Gate
Irongate
Iron Gates
jade gate
Jobs Gate
jumpgate
Kara Gates
Kevin's Gate
Kingsgate
kissing gate
kiss-me-at-the-gate
kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate
liftgate
like a bull at a gate
lock gate
logic gate
Lower Southgate
lych-gate
lychgate
Malay gate
Margate
matchgate
midgate
moongate
moon gate
Moravian Gate
Moses Gate
multigate
NAND gate
New Cross Gate
Newdegate
noise gate
NOR gate
Northgate
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
Ramsgate
Ramsgate Beach
Redgate
resurrection gate
right out of the gate
Sandgate
screwgate
sea gate
sluice-gate
sluice gate
sluice-gate price
snow gate
Southgate
South Newdegate
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
Thorngate
through the gate
ticket gate
tide gate
timegate
Toffoli gate
tollgate
tori gate
trance gate
trigate
Two Gates
V Gate
waste gate
wastegate
watergate
water gate
waygate
wicket gate
wombgate
Woodgate
XNOR gate
XOR gate
gate off
gater
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