Gate

[geɪt] or [ɡet]

Definition

(noun.) a movable barrier in a fence or wall.

(noun.) a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs.

(noun.) passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.

(noun.) total admission receipts at a sports event.

(verb.) restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment.

(verb.) control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate.

(verb.) supply with a gate; 'The house was gated'.

Inputed by Juana--From WordNet

Definition

(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.) 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. t.) To supply with a gate.

(v. t.) 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.

Inputed by Jules

Definition

n. (Scot.) a way path: manner of doing esp. in adverbial phrases like 'this gate ' 'any gate ' 'some gate.'

n. (Spens.) a goat.

n. a passage into a city enclosure or any large building: a narrow opening or defile: a frame in the entrance into any enclosure: an entrance.—v.t. to supply with a gate: at Oxford and Cambridge to punish by requiring the offender to be within the college gates by a certain hour.—adj. Gā′ted punished with such restriction.—ns. Gate′-fine the fine imposed for disobedience to such orders; Gate′-house (archit.) a building over or near the gate giving entrance to a city abbey college &c.; Gate′-keep′er Gate′man one who watches over the opening and shutting of a gate.—adj. Gate′less not having a gate.—ns. Gate′-mon′ey the money taken for entrance to an athletic or other exhibition sometimes simply 'gate;' Gate′-tow′er a tower built beside or over a gate; Gate′-vein the great abdominal vein; Gate′way the way through a gate: the gate itself: any entrance.—Gate of justice a gate as of a city temple &c. where a sovereign or judge sat to dispense justice; Gates of death a phrase expressing the near approach of death.—Break gates at Oxford and Cambridge to enter college after the prescribed hour; Ivory gate in poetical imagery the semi-transparent gate of the house of sleep through which dreams appear distorted into pleasant and delusive shapes; Stand in the gate (B.) to occupy a position of defence.

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