gate
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old English ġeat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”) (cf. Swedish/Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰed-ye/o (“to defecate”) (cf. Albanian dhjes, Ancient Greek χέζω (khézō), Old Armenian ձետ (jet, “tail”), Avestan [script?] (zadah, “rump”)).
Noun[edit]
gate (plural gates)
- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- Movable barrier.
- The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
- (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- (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
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
Synonyms[edit]
- (computing): logic gate
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from gate
Translations[edit]
door-like structure outside
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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
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in an air terminal
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Verb[edit]
gate (third-person singular simple present gates, present participle gating, simple past and past participle gated)
- To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- To ground someone.
- (biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.[1]
- (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
- (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ. Cognate with Danish gade, Swedish gata, German Gasse (“lane”).
Noun[edit]
gate (plural gates)
- (now Scotland, northern UK) 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.
- Sir Walter Scott
- (obsolete) A journey.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xii:
- nought regarding, they kept on their gate, / And all her vaine allurements did forsake [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xii:
- (Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect, archaic) manner; gait
References[edit]
- ^ 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[edit]
Afrikaans[edit]
Noun[edit]
gate
- plural form of gat
Dutch[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From English gate, from Old English ġeat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”). Doublette with Dutch gat (“hole”).
Noun[edit]
gate m (plural gates, diminutive gatetje n)
- airport gate
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
gate m (plural gates, diminutive gatetje n)
- (in compounds) scandal
Haitian Creole[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French gâter (“to spoil”).
Verb[edit]
gate
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Noun[edit]
gate
Inflection[edit]
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | gate | gater |
| definite | gaten/gata | gatene |
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