gate

Meanings

Noun

• A doorlike structure outside a house.
• Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
• Movable barrier.
• A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
• The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
• The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
• A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
• Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

• To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
• To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them 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. See autogating.

Related

Similar words

• logic gate
• doorway, entrance, passage

Origin

• From Middle English gate, gat, ȝate, ȝeat, from Old English gæt, gat, ġeat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą ("hole, opening") (compare Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt).
• Borrowed from Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ. Cognate with Danish gade, Swedish gata, German Gasse ("lane"). gait.