gate
Pronunciation: /ˈɡeɪ̯t/
The English word “gate” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- A movable barrier.
- A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- 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.
- The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
- The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
- An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
- A place where drugs are illegally sold.
- A man; a male person.
- A tunnel serving the coal face.
verb
Etymology
From Middle English gate (the forms ȝate and ȝeat yielded the dialectal doublet yate), from the plural of Old English ġeat (specifically gatu), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”). See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.
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