Definition of "gate"

gate¹

/ɡeɪt/

noun
plural gates
1. A doorlike structure outside a house.
2. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
  Quotations
  At 7, he made his exit through the Ch‘ien-ch‘ing and the Lung-tsung gates, and thence, through the Yung-Hang Gate he entered the Tz‘u-ning Palace.
  1870 June , “The Peking Gazettes”, in Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal‎, volume 3, number 1, Foochow: American Presbyterian Mission Press, page 12, column 1
3. Movable barrier.
4. Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
5. A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
  Quotations
  Lyons and Fisher's stations, who have spared nothing to ensure a success on this point, there is every reason to believe that the Northern Territory will soon be able to make a proper use of her geographical position, and become the gate of the East for all the Australian colonies.
  1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 246
6. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
7. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
8. (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
9. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
10. (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
11. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
12. (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
13. (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
  Quotations
  After all, not using film has advantages other than cost: the curse of getting a hair in the gate (the rectangular opening at the front of a camera) is gone; the problem of getting dirt on the film swept away.
  2023 March 16, John Boorman, “Today’s ‘films’ are nothing of the sort – so stop calling them that”, in The Guardian‎
14. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
15. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
verb
third-person singular simple present gates, present participle gating, simple past and past participle gated
1. (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
2. (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
  Quotations
  “I’ve missed two lectures already,” remarked Maurice, who was breakfasting in his pyjamas.“Cut them all — he’ll only gate you.”
  1971, E. M. Forster, chapter 13, in Maurice‎, Penguin, published 1972, page 72
  Dons could ring the front bell and be admitted after that hour. But students who returned after midnight or who stayed out all night were fined heavily or “gated” – that is, forbidden to leave college for several days.
  2010, Thomas J. Schaeper, Kathleen Schaeper, “Yanks and Brits”, in Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite, New York, NY: Berghahn Books, page 52
3. (transitive, biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.
4. (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
5. (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.

gate²

/ɡeɪt/

noun
plural gates
1. (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
  Quotations
  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.
  1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, III, or IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company
  "Stand out o' my gate, wife, for, d'ye see, I am rather in a haste, Jean Linton."
  1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet
2. (obsolete) A journey.
  Quotations
  […] nought regarding, they kept on their gate, / And all her vaine allurements did forsake […]
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
3. (Scotland, Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
4. (Britain, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.

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