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Definition gate

Etymology 1

From Middle English gate, gat, ?ate, ?eat, from Old English gæt, gat, ?eat (“a gate, door”), from Proto-Germanic *gat? (“hole, opening”) (compare Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt).

Noun

gate (plural gates)

  1. A doorlike structure outside a house.
  2. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
  3. Movable barrier.
  4. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
  5. (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
  6. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
  7. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
  8. Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
  9. (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
  10. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
  11. (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
  12. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
  13. (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
  14. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
Verb

gate (third-person singular simple present gates, present participle gating, simple past and past participle gated)

  1. To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
  2. To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
  3. (biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.
  4. (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
  5. (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatw?. Cognate with Danish gade, Swedish gata, German Gasse (“lane”).

Noun

gate (plural gates)

  1. (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
  2. (obsolete) A journey.
  3. (Scotland, Northern England) 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".
  4. (Britain, Scotland, dialectal, archaic) Manner; gait.

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