gate
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English gate, gat, ȝate, ȝeat, from Old English ġeat (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”).
See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.
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.
- Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 246:
- Lyons and Fisher's stations, who have spared nothing to ensure a success on this point, there is every reason to believe that the Northern Territory will soon be able to make a proper use of her geographical position, and become the gate of the East for all the Australian colonies.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- (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.
- (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out.
- (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- (flow cytometry) 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.
SynonymsEdit
- (computing): logic gate
- (opening in a wall): doorway, entrance, passage
Derived termsEdit
- A20 gate
- Abbey Gate
- Ambergate
- AND gate
- arrival gate
- Ashton Gate
- back gate
- Baldwin's Gate
- Blackmoor Gate
- boarding gate
- boom gate
- chamber gate
- Choi Soon-sil-gate
- corpse-gate
- County Gates
- Cross Gates
- departure gate
- Deutsch gate
- Dieselgate
- difference gate
- dragon gate
- Duna-gate
- e-gate
- equivalence gate
- field-programmable gate array
- flap gate
- flood gate
- flood-gate
- floodgate
- Forest Gate
- Fredkin gate
- front gate
- garden gate
- gate array
- gate box
- Gate City
- gate crash
- gate crasher
- gate fever
- gate guard
- gate guardian
- gate house
- gate money
- gate of hell
- gate rape
- gate receipts
- gate valve
- gate vein
- gate-crash
- gate-crasher
- gate-happy
- gate-keep
- gate-keepy
- gate-to-wire
- gatecrash
- Gategate
- gatekeeper
- gateleg
- gateline
- gatepost
- gateway
- hair in the gate
- Halton Lea Gate
- hell gate
- Hutton Gate
- jade gate
- kiss-me-at-the-gate
- kissing gate
- like a bull at a gate
- lock gate
- logic gate
- lych-gate, lychgate
- Moses Gate
- NAND gate
- New Cross Gate
- NOR gate
- NOT gate
- OR gate
- out of the gate
- pearly gates
- pincer gate
- proselyte of the gate
- quantum gate
- quantum logic gate
- radial gate
- sluice gate
- sluice-gate
- sluice-gate price
- snow gate
- Squires Gate
- stairgate, stair gate
- stand in the gate
- Stanton Gate
- starting gate
- tailgate
- Tainter gate
- through the gate
- ticket gate
- tide gate
- Toffoli gate
- tollgate
- trance gate
- waste gate
- water gate
- wicket gate
- XNOR gate
- XOR gate
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VerbEdit
gate (third-person singular simple present gates, present participle gating, simple past and past participle gated)
- (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
- Synonym: ground
- 1971, E. M. Forster, Maurice, Penguin, 1972, Chapter 13, p. 72,[1]
- “I’ve missed two lectures already,” remarked Maurice, who was breakfasting in his pyjamas.
- “Cut them all — he’ll only gate you.”
- (transitive, 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 from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ. Cognate with Danish gade, Swedish gata, German Gasse (“lane”). Doublet of gait.
NounEdit
gate (plural gates)
- (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
- 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I, II, III, or IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, OCLC 819902302:
- 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.
- 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet
- "Stand out o' my gate, wife, for, d'ye see, I am rather in a haste, Jean Linton."
- (obsolete) A journey.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- […] nought regarding, they kept on their gate, / And all her vaine allurements did forsake […]
- (Scotland, Northern England) 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".
- (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
NounEdit
gate
AnjamEdit
NounEdit
gate
ReferencesEdit
- Robert Rucker, Anjam Organised Phonology Data (2000), p. 2
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
EtymologyEdit
From French gâter (“to spoil”).
VerbEdit
gate
Mauritian CreoleEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gate
Etymology 2Edit
From French gâté (“pampered”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gate
- darling, sweetheart
- Synonym: cheri
AdjectiveEdit
gate
Etymology 3Edit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
gate (medial form gat)
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old English ġeat, ġet, gat, from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą.
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gate (plural gates or gaten or gate)
- An entryway or entrance to a settlement or building; a gateway.
- A gate (door barring an entrance or gap in a fence)
- a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “2 Paralipomenon 6:28”, in Wycliffe's Bible:
- If hungur riſiþ in þe lond and peſtilence and ruſt and wynd diſtriynge cornes and a locuste and bꝛuke comeþ and if enemyes biſegen þe ȝatis of þe citee aftir þat þe cuntreis ben diſtried and al veniaunce and ſikenesse oppꝛeſſiþ […]
- If hunger rises in the land, and pestilence, rust, wind, destroying grain, and locusts and their young come, and if enemies besiege a city's gates after the city's surrounds are ruined, and when any destruction and disease oppresses (people) […]
- (figurative) A method or way of doing something or getting somewhere.
- (figurative) Any kind of entrance or entryway; e.g. a crossing through mountains.
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- English: gate, yate
- Scots: yett, yet, ȝett, ȝet
- Yola: gaaute, gaat, yeat
- → Middle Irish: *geta
- → Welsh: gât, giât, iet
ReferencesEdit
- “gāte, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-12.
Etymology 2Edit
From Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gate (plural gates)
- A way, path or avenue; a trail or route.
- A voyage, adventure or leaving; one's course on the road.
- The way which one acts; one's mode of behaviour:
- A way or procedure for doing something; a method.
- A moral or religious path; the course of one's life.
- (Late Middle English) One's lifestyle or demeanour; the way one chooses to act.
- (Late Middle English) Gait; the way one walks.
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “gā̆te, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-12.
NiasEdit
NounEdit
gate
- mutated form of ate (“liver”)
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
gate f or m (definite singular gata or gaten, indefinite plural gater, definite plural gatene)
- a street
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “gate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
gate f (definite singular gata, indefinite plural gater, definite plural gatene)
- a street
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “gate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
PaliEdit
Alternative formsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
gate
PortugueseEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Unadapted borrowing from English gate.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gate m (plural gates)
- (electronics) gate (circuit that implements a logical operation)
- Synonym: (more common) porta
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
gate m (plural gates)
Etymology 3Edit
VerbEdit
gate
- inflection of gatar:
ScotsEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
gate (plural gates)
TernateEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-North Halmahera *gate ("liver"). Compare Tidore gate.
NounEdit
gate
SynonymsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
- Gary Holton, Marian Klamer (2018) The Papuan languages of East Nusantara and the Bird's Head[2]