Definitions for gategeɪt

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

gategeɪt(n.; v.)gat•ed, gat•ing.

  1. (n.)a movable barrier, usu. on hinges, closing an opening in a fence, wall, or other enclosure.

  2. an opening permitting passage through an enclosure.

  3. a tower, architectural setting, etc., for defending or adorning such an opening or for providing a monumental entrance to a street, park, etc.

  4. any means of access or entrance:

    the gate to success.

  5. a mountain pass.

  6. any movable barrier, as at a tollbooth or a railroad crossing.

    Category: Transportation

  7. Ref: starting gate.

  8. a gateway or passageway in a passenger terminal or pier that leads to a place for boarding a train, plane, or ship.

    Category: Transportation

  9. a sliding barrier for regulating the passage of water, steam, or the like, as in a dam or pipe; valve.

    Category: Civil Engineering

  10. an obstacle in a slalom race, consisting of two upright poles anchored in the snow a certain distance apart. the opening between these poles, through which a competitor in a slalom race must ski.

    Category: Sport

  11. the total number of persons who pay for admission to an athletic contest, a performance, an exhibition, etc.

  12. the total receipts from such admissions.

  13. a temporary channel in a cell membrane through which substances diffuse into or out of a cell.

    Category: Cell Biology

  14. a circuit with one output that is actuated only by certain combinations of two or more inputs.

    Category: Electronics, Electricity and Magnetism

  15. the gate, rejection; dismissal:

    to give a boyfriend the gate.

    Category: Common Vocabulary, Status (usage)

  16. (v.t.)(at British universities) to punish by confining to the college grounds.

  17. to control the operation of (an electronic device) by means of a gate.

    Category: Electronics

Origin of gate:

bef. 900; OE geat (pl. gatu), c. OFris gat hole, OS: eye of a needle; cf. gate2

gategeɪt(n.)

  1. Archaic. a path; way.

Origin of gate:

1150–1200; ME < ON gata path

-gate

  1. a combining form extracted from Watergate , occurring as the final element in journalistic coinages, usu. nonce words, that name scandals resulting from concealed crime or other improprieties in government or business:

    Irangate.

    Category: Common Vocabulary, Affix

Princeton's WordNet

  1. gate(noun)

    a movable barrier in a fence or wall

  2. gate, logic gate(noun)

    a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs

  3. gate(noun)

    total admission receipts at a sports event

  4. gate(verb)

    passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark

  5. gate(verb)

    supply with a gate

    "The house was gated"

  6. gate(verb)

    control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate

  7. gate(verb)

    restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. gate(noun)ɪt

    a door or entrance in a fence or wall

    a farm gate; the gates to the palace

  2. gateɪt

    the place at an airport where passengers get onto an airplane

    Your flight will be boarding at gate 37.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Gate(noun)

    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. Gate(noun)

    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

  3. Gate(noun)

    a door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc

  4. Gate(noun)

    the places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might

  5. Gate(noun)

    in a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into

  6. Gate(noun)

    the channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate

  7. Gate(noun)

    the waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece

  8. Gate(verb)

    to supply with a gate

  9. Gate(verb)

    to punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual

  10. Gate(noun)

    a way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate)

  11. Gate(noun)

    manner; gait


Translations for gate

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

gate(noun)

(a metal, wooden etc doorlike object which closes) the opening in a wall, fence etc through which people etc pass

I'll meet you at the park gate(s).

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