gate

Plural: gates

Noun

• a movable barrier in a fence or wall
• a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
• total admission receipts at a sports event
• passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
• A doorlike structure outside a house.
• A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
• A movable barrier.
• A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
• A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
• The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
• A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
• The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
• In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
• The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
• The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
• The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
• A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
• A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
• A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
• An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
• A place where drugs are illegally sold.
• A man; a male person.
• A tunnel serving the coal face.
• A way, path.
• A journey.
• 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".
• Manner; gait.

Verb

Verb Forms: gated, gating, gates

• To provide or control with a gate.
• supply with a gate
  • "The house was gated"
• control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
• restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
• To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
• To punish (especially a child or teenager) by not allowing to go out.
• To open (a closed ion channel).
• To furnish with a gate.
• To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
• To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).

Examples

• She decided to GATE off access to the triple word score with a well-placed consonant.
• Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out.
• The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.

Synonyms

logic gate, bloke, boy, bro, broski, bruh, cat, chap, chappy, chield, cove, covey, dawg, dog [⇒ thesaurus] (slang), doorway, dude, entrance, fella, fellow, gadgie, gate, geezer, gink, gloak, gome, ground, guy, health, homeboy, homey, joe, lede, nigga, ninja, omi, passage, pillicock, punk, rooster, seg, shalk, wallah, wer, were, wye

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