English Explanatory Dictionary

gate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A doorlike structure outside a house.
  2. A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
  3. A movable barrier.
  4. A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
  5. A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
  6. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
  7. A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
  8. The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
  9. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
  10. The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
  11. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
  12. The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
verb
  1. To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
  2. To punish (a student) by not allowing to leave the college grounds.
  3. To open (a closed ion channel).
  4. To furnish with a gate.
  5. To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
  6. To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).
noun
  1. A way, path.
  2. A journey.
  3. 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".
  4. Manner; gait.
name
  1. A ghost town in Scott County, Arkansas, United States.
  2. A tiny town in Beaver County, Oklahoma, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in Thurston County, Washington, United States.
noun
  1. gifted and talented education

Pronunciation

/ˈɡeɪ̯t/ en-us-gate.ogg /ˈɡæɪ̯t/ [ˈɡæ̝ɪ̯t] en-au-gate.ogg /ɡet/ /ɡeːt/ /ɡeɪt/

Word forms

gate gates yate gating gated

Etymology

From Middle English gate (the forms ȝate and ȝeat yielded the dialectal doublet yate), from the plural of Old English ġeat (specifically gatu), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”). See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.

Synonyms

doorway entrance passage logic gate cat dude guy bloke boy bro broski bruh chap chappy chield cove covey dog [⇒ thesaurus] (slang) dawg fella fellow gadgie gate geezer gink gloak gome health homeboy homey joe lede nigga ninja omi pillicock punk rooster seg shalk wallah wer were wye ground

Related words

Gates gifted education

Derived words

A20 gate Abbey Gate agate age gate Aldgate algate Ambergate AND gate arrival gate Ashton Gate baby gate backgate back gate Baldwin's Gate beartrap gate beast-gate Bishopsgate Blackmoor Gate boarding gate Bogan Gate boom gate bridle gate Broughams Gate Burragate car gate Caspian Gates CCNOT gate chamber gate Choi Soon-sil-gate Churchgate Cilician Gates Clergate corpse-gate County Gates Cross Gates degate departure gate Deutsch gate Dieselgate difference gate dragon gate Duna-gate Dzungarian Gate East Newdegate e-gate endgate equivalence gate eye-gate faregate farmgate field-programmable gate array five-bar gate five-barred gate flap gate flood gate floodgate flood-gate fluxgate foregate Forest Gate
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