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WIKTIONARY
gate
Noun
∙
A doorlike structure outside a house.
∙
Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
∙
Movable barrier.
∙
A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are
and
,
or
,
nand
, etc.
computing
∙
The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
cricket
∙
The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
∙
A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
flow cytometry
∙
passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
∙
The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
electronics
∙
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.
metalworking
∙
The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
∙
A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture
cinematography
Verb
∙
To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
∙
To ground someone.
∙
To open a closed ion channel.
biochemistry
∙
To furnish with a gate.
transitive
∙
To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.
transitive
Noun
∙
A way, path.
now Scotland, Northern England
∙
A journey.
obsolete
∙
A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street.
Northern England
∙
manner; gait
Britain, Scotland, dialect, archaic
Gate
Proper noun
∙
A town in Oklahoma.