gate

[gate]

A gate is a moveable barrier that closes or opens a gap in a wall or fence. A garden gate might swing on rusty hinges, when closed helping to keep deer away from your vegetables.

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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.

Noun
a door-like 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

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Verb
control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate

Verb
supply with a gate; "The house was gated"

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.

Gate

Gate , n. [OE. et, eat, giat, gate, door, AS. geat, gat, gate, door; akin to OS., D., & Icel. gat opening, hole, and perh. to E. gate a way, gait, and get, v. Cf. Gate a way in the wall, 3d Get.] 1. 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. 2. 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.

Knowest thou the way to Dover? Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath.

Opening a gate for a long war.

3. A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc. 4. (Script.) The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.

The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

5. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into. 6. (Founding) (a) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate. (b) The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. [Written also geat and git.] Gate chamber, a recess in the side wall of a canal lock, which receives the opened gate. -- Gate channel. See Gate, 5. -- Gate hook, the hook-formed piece of a gate hinge. -- Gate money, entrance money for admission to an inclosure. -- Gate tender, one in charge of a gate, as at a railroad crossing. -- Gate valva, a stop valve for a pipe, having a sliding gate which affords a straight passageway when open. -- Gate vein (Anat.), the portal vein. -- To break gates (Eng. Univ.), to enter a college inclosure after the hour to which a student has been restricted. -- To stand in the gate, ∨ gates, to occupy places or advantage, power, or defense.

Gate

Gate, v. t. 1. To supply with a gate. 2. (Eng. Univ.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.

Gate

Gate, n. [Icel. gata; akin to SW. gata street, lane, Dan. gade, Goth. gatw'94, G. gasse. Cf. Gate a door, Gait.] 1. A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate). [O. Eng. & Scot.]

I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate.

2. Manner; gait. [O. Eng. & Scot.]

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.

To supply with a gate.

A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).

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Usage Examples

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

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Other Usage Examples

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.

For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.