gate
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰed- (“to defecate”) (compare Albanian dhjes, Ancient Greek χέζω (khézō), Old Armenian ձետ (jet, “tail”), Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬛𐬀𐬵 (zadah, “rump”)).
Alternative formsEdit
- yate (obsolete or dialectal)
NounEdit
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.
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Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out.
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- 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.
SynonymsEdit
- (computing): logic gate
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from gate
TranslationsEdit
door-like structure outside
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doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall
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movable barrier
computing: logical pathway
cricket: gap between a batsman the bat and his pad
money made by selling tickets for an event
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in an air terminal
(electronics) name of one terminal of a transistor
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VerbEdit
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 ground someone.
- (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 2Edit
Borrowed from Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ. Cognate with Danish gade, Swedish gata, German Gasse (“lane”).
NounEdit
gate (plural gates)
- (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
- Sir Walter Scott
- 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 Walter Scott
- (obsolete) A journey.
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1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XII:
- […] nought regarding, they kept on their gate, / And all her vaine allurements did forsake […]
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- (Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street.
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 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.
AnagramsEdit
AfrikaansEdit
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
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Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
gate m (plural gates, diminutive gatetje n)
- airport gate
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from English Watergate.
NounEdit
gate m (plural gates, diminutive gatetje n)
- (in compounds) scandal
Haitian CreoleEdit
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
gate f, m (definite singular gata or gaten, indefinite plural gater, definite plural gatene)
- a street
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from gate
ReferencesEdit
- “gate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
gate f (definite singular gata, indefinite plural gater, definite plural gatene)
- a street
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “gate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.