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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)
- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- Movable barrier.
- (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- (electronics) 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.
- (metalworking) 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.
- (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- 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)
- To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
- (biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.
- (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
- (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)
- (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
- (obsolete) A journey.
- (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".
- (Britain, Scotland, dialectal, archaic) Manner; gait.
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