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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

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