Gate

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A structure that can be swung, drawn, or lowered to block an entrance or a passageway.
  • n. An opening in a wall or fence for entrance or exit.
  • n. The structure surrounding such an opening, such as the monumental or fortified entrance to a palace or walled city.
  • n. A means of access: the gate to riches.
  • n. A passageway, as in an airport terminal, through which passengers proceed when boarding or leaving an airplane.
  • n. A mountain pass.
  • n. The total paid attendance or admission receipts at a public event: a good gate at the football game.
  • n. A device for controlling the passage of water or gas through a dam or conduit.
  • n. The channel through which molten metal flows into a shaped cavity of a mold.
  • n. Sports A passage between two upright poles through which a skier must go in a slalom race.
  • n. A logic gate.
  • v. Chiefly British To confine (a student) to the grounds of a college as punishment.
  • v. Electronics To select part of (a wave) for transmission, reception, or processing by magnitude or time interval.
  • v. To furnish with a gate: "The entrance to the rear lawn was also gatedā€ ( Dean Koontz).
  • idiom. get the gate Slang To be dismissed or rejected.
  • idiom. give (someone) the gate Slang To discharge from a job.
  • idiom. give (someone) the gate Slang To reject or jilt.
  • n. Chiefly British A particular way of acting or doing; manner.
  • n. Archaic A path or way.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A doorlike structure outside a house.
  • n. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
  • n. Movable barrier.
  • n. A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
  • n. The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
  • n. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
  • n. A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
  • n. passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
  • n. The name of the controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
  • v. To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
  • v. To ground someone.
  • n. A way, path.
  • n. A journey.
  • n. A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street.
  • n. manner; gait
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.
  • n. An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.
  • n. A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
  • n. The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
  • n. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
  • n.
  • n. The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.
  • n. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.
  • v. To supply with a gate.
  • v. To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.
  • n. A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).
  • n. Manner; gait.
  • v.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A passage or opening closed by a movable barrier (a door or gate in sense 3); a gateway: commonly used with reference to such barrier, and specifically for the entrance to a large inclosure or building, as a walled city, a fortification, a great church or palace, or other public monument.
  • n. Hence, any somewhat contracted or difficult means or avenue of approach or passage; a narrow opening or defile: as, the Iron Gates of the Danube.
  • n. A movable barrier consisting of a frame or solid structure of wood, iron, or other material, set on hinges or pivots in or at the end of a passage in order to close it.
  • n. The movable framework which shuts or opens a passage for water, as at the entrance to a dock or in a canal-lock.
  • n. In coal-mining, an underground road connecting a stall with a main road or inclined plane. Also called gate-road, gateway.
  • n. In founding:
  • n. One of various forms of channels or openings made in the sand or molds, through which the metal flows (pouring-gate), or by means of which access is had to it, either for skimming its surface (skimming-gate) or for other purposes.
  • n. The waste piece of metal cast in the gate.
  • n. A ridge in a casting which has to be sawn off.
  • n. In locksmithing, one of the apertures in the tumblers for the passage of the stub.
  • n. A sash or frame in which a saw is extended, to prevent buckling or bending.
  • To supply with a gate.
  • In the English universities of Oxford and Cambridge, to punish by a restriction on customary liberty.
  • n. A way; road; path; course.
  • n. Way; manner; mode of doing: used especially with all, this, thus, other, no, etc., in adverbial phrases.
  • n. In particular Way or manner of walking; walk; carriage. [In this use now spelled gait, and usually associated (erroneously) with the verb go. See the etymology, and gait.] Movement on a course or way; progress; procession; journey; expedition.
  • n. Room or opportunity for going forward; space to move in.
  • To go.
  • n. An archaic or dialectal form of goat.
  • To place (a warp) in a loom ready for weaving.
  • To put (a machine, as a loom) in order to do its work properly.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
  • v. supply with a gate
  • n. a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
  • n. total admission receipts at a sports event
  • n. passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
  • n. a movable barrier in a fence or wall
  • v. restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    gated    gates    gating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    control    operate    furnish    provide    supply    render    gross    receipts    revenue    limit   
    Variant
    Geat    git   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    power    might    way    path    road    manner    gait    door    shuttle    portcullis   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ate    Cate    Est    Fate    Haight    Iwate    Kate    Kuwait    Nate    Solid-state   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    door    entrance    tower    building    fence    bridge    hall    house    road    doorway