gate

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[edit] English

A gate.
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[edit] Etymology 1

Old English ġeat, from Proto-Germanic *gatan (“hole, opening”) (cf. Swedish/Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰed-ye/o (“to defecate”) (cf. Albanian dhjes, Ancient Greek ... (khézein), Old Armenian ձետ (jet, “tail”), Avestan ... (zadah) 'rump').

[edit] 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.
  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 name of the controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
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(computing): logic gate

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[edit] Translations
door-like structure outside
doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall
movable barrier
computing: logical pathway
cricket: gap between a batsman the bat and his pad
money made by selling tickets for an event
in an air terminal
(electronics) name of one terminal of a transistor
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[edit] 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]

[edit] Etymology 2

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

[edit] Noun

gate (plural gates)

  1. (now Scotland, northern UK) A way, path.
  2. (obsolete) A journey.
  3. (Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street.

[edit] 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.

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[edit] Haitian Creole

[edit] Etymology

From French gâter (“spoil”).

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gate

  1. spoil

[edit] Norwegian

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gate

  1. street (a paved part of road, usually in a village or a town)
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