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Definition of Gate
1. Verb. Supply with a gate. "The house was gated"
2. Noun. A movable barrier in a fence or wall.
Terms within: Flexible Joint, Hinge, Lock
Generic synonyms: Movable Barrier
Specialized synonyms: Dipylon, Dipylon Gate
3. Verb. Control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate.
4. Noun. A computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs.
Specialized synonyms: And Circuit, And Gate, Nand Circuit, Nand Gate, Or Circuit, Or Gate, X-or Circuit, Xor Circuit, Xor Gate
Generic synonyms: Computer Circuit
5. Verb. Restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment.
6. Noun. Total admission receipts at a sports event.
7. Noun. Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
Specialized synonyms: Arrival Gate, Departure Gate
Generic synonyms: Passageway
Definition of Gate
1. n. A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.
2. v. t. To supply with a gate.
3. n. A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).
Definition of Gate
1. Noun. A doorlike structure outside a house. ¹
2. Noun. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall. ¹
3. Noun. Movable barrier. ¹
4. Noun. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are ''and'', ''or'', ''nand'', etc. ¹
5. Noun. (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad. ¹
6. Noun. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event. ¹
7. Noun. (context: flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots. ¹
8. Noun. passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark. ¹
9. Noun. (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET). ¹
10. Verb. To keep something inside by means of a closed gate. ¹
11. Verb. To ground someone. ¹
12. Verb. (biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.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: ¹
13. Noun. (context: now Scotland northern UK) A way, path. ¹
14. Noun. (obsolete) A journey. ¹
15. Noun. (context: Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gate
1. to supply with a gate (a movable barrier) [v GATED, GATING, GATES]
Medical Definition of Gate
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1. A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate). "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 W. Scott)
2. Manner; gait.
Origin: Icel. Gata; akin to SW. Gata street, lane, Dan. Gade, Goth. Gatwo, G. Gasse. Cf. Gate a door, Gait.
1. A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc, by which the passage can be closed.
2. An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit. "Knowest thou the way to Dover? Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath." (Shak) "Opening a gate for a long war." (Knolles)
3. A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
4. The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might. "The gates of hell shall not prevail against it." (Matt. Xvi. 18)
5. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
6. The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.
Alternative forms: geat and git] Gate chamber, a recess in the side wall of a canal lock, which receives the opened gate. Gate channel. See Gate. Gate hook, the hook-formed piece of a gate hinge. Gate money, entrance money for admission to an inclosure. Gate tender, one in charge of a gate, as at a railroad crossing. Gate valva, a stop valve for a pipe, having a sliding gate which affords a straight passageway when open.