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Webster 1913 Edition

Gate

Gate

(gāt)
,
Noun.
[OE.
ȝet
,
ȝeat
,
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, 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.
Shakespeare
Opening a
gate
for a long war.
Knolles.
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.
Matt. xvi. 18.
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
or
To stand in the gates
,
to occupy places or advantage, power, or defense.

Gate

,
Verb.
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

,
Noun.
[Icel.
gata
; akin to SW.
gata
street, lane, Dan.
gade
, Goth.
gatwö
, 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
.
Sir W. Scott.
2.
Manner; gait.
[O. Eng. & Scot.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Gate

GATE

, n.
1.
A large door which gives entrance into a walled city, a castle, a temple, palace or other large edifice. It differs from door chiefly in being larger. Gate signifies both the opening or passage, and the frame of boards, planks or timber which closes the passage.
2.
A frame of timber which opens or closes a passage into any court, garden or other inclosed ground; also, the passage.
3.
The frame which shuts or stops the passage of water through a dam into a flume.
4.
An avenue; an opening; a way.
In scripture, figuratively, power, dominion. 'Thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;' that is, towns and fortresses. Gen.22.
The gates of hell, are the power and dominion of the devil and his instruments. Matt.16.
The gates of death, are the brink of the grave. Ps.9.

Definition 2024

Gate

Gate

See also: gate, gâte, gatë, gåte, gatě, -gate, and gâté

English

Proper noun

Gate

  1. A town in Oklahoma.

gate

gate

See also: Gate, gâte, gatë, gåte, gatě, -gate, and gâté

English

A gate.

Alternative forms

  • yate (obsolete or dialectal)

Noun

gate ‎(plural gates)

  1. A doorlike structure outside a house.
  2. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
  3. Movable barrier.
    The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
  4. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
  5. (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
    Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out‎
  6. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
  7. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
  8. passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
  9. (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
  10. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
  11. (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
  12. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
  13. (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture
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Verb

gate ‎(third-person singular simple present gates, present participle gating, simple past and past participle gated)

  1. To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
  2. To ground someone.
  3. (biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.[1]
  4. (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
  5. (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ. Cognate with Danish gade, Swedish gata, German Gasse ‎(“lane”).

Noun

gate ‎(plural gates)

  1. (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
    • Sir Walter Scott
      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. (obsolete) A journey.
  3. (Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street.
  4. (Britain, Scotland, dialect, archaic) manner; gait

References

  1. ↑ Alberts, Bruce; et al. "Figure 11-21: The gating of ion channels." In: Molecular Biology of the Cell, ed. Senior, Sarah Gibbs. New York: Garland Science, 2002 [cited 18 December 2009]. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=mboc4&part=A1986&rendertype=figure&id=A2030.

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Noun

gate

  1. plural of gat

Dutch

Etymology 1

Borrowing from English gate.

Noun

gate m ‎(plural gates, diminutive gatetje n)

  1. airport gate

Etymology 2

Borrowing from English Watergate.

Noun

gate m ‎(plural gates, diminutive gatetje n)

  1. (in compounds) scandal

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French gâter ‎(“to spoil”).

Verb

gate

  1. spoil

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse gata

Noun

gate f, m ‎(definite singular gata or gaten, indefinite plural gater, definite plural gatene)

  1. a street

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse gata

Noun

gate f ‎(definite singular gata, indefinite plural gater, definite plural gatene)

  1. a street

Derived terms

References

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowing from English gate.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɡejt͡ʃ/

Noun

gate m (plural gates)

  1. (electronics) gate (circuit that implements a logical operation)
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Noun

gate m (plural gates)

  1. (India) mountain
Synonyms

Verb

gate

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of gatar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of gatar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of gatar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of gatar

Etymology

From Middle English gate, gat, ȝate, ȝeat, from Old English gæt, gat, ġeat ‎(“a gate, door”), from Proto-Germanic *gatą ‎(“hole, opening”) (compare Old Norse gat, Swedish/Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰed-ye/o ‎(“to defecate”) (compare Albanian dhjes, Ancient Greek χέζω ‎(khézō), Old Armenian ձետ ‎(jet, “tail”), Avestan [script needed] ‎(zadah, “rump”)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡeɪt/
  • Rhymes: -eɪt

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