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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.