gate

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

English[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

A gate

Etymology 1[edit]

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 and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰed- (“to defecate”) (compare Albanian dhjes, Ancient Greek χέζω (khézō), Old Armenian ձետ (jet, “tail”), Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬛𐬀𐬵‎ (zadah, “rump”)).

Alternative forms[edit]

  • yate (obsolete or dialectal)

Noun[edit]

gate (plural gates)

  2. A doorlike structure outside a house.
  3. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
  4. Movable barrier.
    The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
  5. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
  6. (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.
  7. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
  8. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
  9. Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
  10. (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
  11. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
  12. (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
  13. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
  14. (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
  15. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
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Terms derived from gate
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Verb[edit]

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[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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. (Scotland, 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[edit]

  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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Afrikaans[edit]

Noun[edit]

gate

  1. plural of gat

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English gate.

Noun[edit]

gate m (plural gates, diminutive gatetje n)

  1. airport gate

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from English Watergate.

Noun[edit]

gate m (plural gates, diminutive gatetje n)

  1. (in compounds) scandal

Haitian Creole[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French gâter (“to spoil”).

Verb[edit]

gate

  1. spoil

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old English ġeat, ġet, gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą.

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ɡaːt/, /ɡat/, /jɛt/, /jat/, /jaːt/

Noun[edit]

gate (plural gates or gaten or gate)

  2. An entryway or entrance to a settlement or building; a gateway.
  3. A gate (door barring an entrance or gap in a fence)
  4. (figuratively) A method or way of doing something or getting somewhere.
  5. (figuratively) Any kind of entrance or entryway; e.g. a crossing through mountains.
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Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡaːt(ə)/, /ˈɡat(ə)/

Noun[edit]

gate (plural gates)

  2. A way, path or avenue; a trail or route.
  3. A voyage, adventure or leaving; one's course on the road.
  4. The way which one acts; one's mode of behaviour:
    1. A way or procedure for doing something; a method.
    2. A moral or religious path; the course of one's life.
    3. (Late ME) One's lifestyle or demeanour; the way one chooses to act.
    4. (Late ME) Gait; the way one walks.
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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse gata

Noun[edit]

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

  1. a street

Derived terms[edit]

Terms derived from gate

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse gata

Noun[edit]

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

  1. a street

Derived terms[edit]

Terms derived from gate

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Portuguese[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English gate.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

gate m (plural gates)

  1. (electronics) gate (circuit that implements a logical operation)
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Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

gate m (plural gates)

  1. (India) mountain
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Etymology 3[edit]

Verb[edit]

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

Scots[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Old Norse gata.

Alternate forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

gate (plural gates)

  1. street, way, road, path
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