gate
English
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
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).
Alternative forms
- yate (obsolete or dialectal)
Noun
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.
- (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
Synonyms
- (computing): logic gate
Derived terms
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Verb
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 punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
- Synonym: ground
- 1971, E. M. Forster, Maurice, Penguin, 1972, Chapter 13, p. 72,[1]
- “I’ve missed two lectures already,” remarked Maurice, who was breakfasting in his pyjamas.
- “Cut them all — he’ll only gate you.”
- (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
Borrowed from Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ. Cognate with Danish gade, Swedish gata, German Gasse (“lane”).
Noun
gate (plural gates)
- (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
- (Can we date this quote by Sir Walter Scott and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- 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.
- (Can we date this quote by Sir Walter Scott and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (obsolete) A journey.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- […] nought regarding, they kept on their gate, / And all her vaine allurements did forsake […]
- (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".
- (British, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.
References
- ^ 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
Afrikaans
Noun
gate
Anjam
Noun
gate
References
- Robert Rucker, Anjam Organised Phonology Data (2000), p. 2
Dutch
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
Noun
gate m (plural gates, diminutive gatetje n)
- airport gate
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English Watergate.
Noun
gate m (plural gates, diminutive gatetje n)
- (in compounds) scandal
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French gâter (“to spoil”).
Verb
gate
Mauritian Creole
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
gate
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
gate
- darling, sweetheart
- Synonym: cheri
Adjective
gate
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
Verb
gate (medial form gat)
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English ġeat, ġet, gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą.
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Pronunciation
Noun
gate (plural gates or gaten or gate)
- An entryway or entrance to a settlement or building; a gateway.
- A gate (door barring an entrance or gap in a fence)
- a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “2 Paralipomenon 6:28”, in Wycliffe's Bible:
- If hungur riſiþ in þe lond and peſtilence and ruſt and wynd diſtriynge cornes and a locuste and bꝛuke comeþ and if enemyes biſegen þe ȝatis of þe citee aftir þat þe cuntreis ben diſtried and al veniaunce and ſikenesse oppꝛeſſiþ […]
- If hunger rises in the land, and pestilence, rust, wind, destroying grain, and locusts and their young come, and if enemies besiege a city's gates after the city's surrounds are ruined, and when any destruction and disease oppresses (people) […]
- (figurative) A method or way of doing something or getting somewhere.
- (figurative) Any kind of entrance or entryway; e.g. a crossing through mountains.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “gāte (n.(1))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-12.
Etymology 2
From Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.
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Pronunciation
Noun
gate (plural gates)
- A way, path or avenue; a trail or route.
- A voyage, adventure or leaving; one's course on the road.
- The way which one acts; one's mode of behaviour:
Descendants
References
- “gā̆te (n.(2))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-12.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
gate f or m (definite singular gata or gaten, indefinite plural gater, definite plural gatene)
- a street
Derived terms
References
- “gate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
gate f (definite singular gata, indefinite plural gater, definite plural gatene)
- a street
Derived terms
References
- “gate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
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Noun
gate m (plural gates)
- (electronics) gate (circuit that implements a logical operation)
Synonyms
- porta (more common)
Etymology 2
Noun
gate m (plural gates)
Synonyms
Etymology 3
Verb
gate
Scots
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
gate (plural gates)
Ternate
Etymology
Noun
gate
Synonyms
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001). A Descriptive Study of the Language of Ternate, the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia. University of Pittsburgh
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