gate

Meanings

Plural: gates

Noun

• a movable barrier in a fence or wall
• a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
• total admission receipts at a sports event
• passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
• A doorlike structure outside a house.
• A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
• A movable barrier.
• A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
• A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
• The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
• A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
• 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.
• 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.
• The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
• A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
• A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
• A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
• An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
• A place where drugs are illegally sold.
• A man; a male person.
• A tunnel serving the coal face.
• A way, path.
• A journey.
• 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".
• Manner; gait.

Verb

• supply with a gate
  • "The house was gated"
• control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
• restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
• To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
• To punish (especially a child or teenager) by not allowing to go out.
• To open (a closed ion channel).
• To furnish with a gate.
• To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
• To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).

Synonyms

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