Wiktionary

gate

See also: Gate, GATE, gâte, gatë, gåte, gatě, -gate, and gâté

EnglishEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

 
A gate
  • IPA(key): /ɡeɪt/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪt

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).

Alternative formsEdit

  • yate (obsolete or dialectal)

NounEdit

gate (plural gates)

  2. A doorlike structure outside a house.
  3. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
  4. Movable barrier.
    The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
  5. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
  6. (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.
  7. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
  8. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
  9. Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
  10. (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
  11. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
  12. (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
  13. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
  14. (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
  15. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
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VerbEdit

gate (third-person singular simple present gates, present participle gating, simple past and past participle gated)

  1. To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
  2. 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.”
  3. (biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.[1]
  4. (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
  5. (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)

  1. (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
    • (Can we date this quote by Sir Walter Scott and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
      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.
  2. (obsolete) A journey.
  3. (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".
  4. (Britain, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ 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

  1. plural of gat

AnjamEdit

NounEdit

gate

  1. head

ReferencesEdit

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English gate.

NounEdit

gate m (plural gates, diminutive gatetje n)

  1. airport gate

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from English Watergate.

NounEdit

gate m (plural gates, diminutive gatetje n)

  1. (in compounds) scandal

Haitian CreoleEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French gâter (“to spoil”).

VerbEdit

gate

  1. spoil

Mauritian CreoleEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From English gate

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

gate

  1. gate
  2. entrance door

Etymology 2Edit

From French gâté (“pampered”)

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

gate

  1. darling, sweetheart
    Synonym: cheri

AdjectiveEdit

gate

  1. spoilt
  2. stale, expired

Etymology 3Edit

From French gâter

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

gate (medial form gat)

Middle EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old English ġeat, ġet, gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą.

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ɡaːt/, /ɡat/, /jɛt/, /jat/, /jaːt/

NounEdit

gate (plural gates or gaten or gate)

  2. An entryway or entrance to a settlement or building; a gateway.
  3. 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) […]
  4. (figuratively) A method or way of doing something or getting somewhere.
  5. (figuratively) Any kind of entrance or entryway; e.g. a crossing through mountains.
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
  • English: gate, yate
  • Scots: yett, yet, ȝett, ȝet
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Etymology 2Edit

From Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡaːt(ə)/, /ˈɡat(ə)/

NounEdit

gate (plural gates)

  2. A way, path or avenue; a trail or route.
  3. A voyage, adventure or leaving; one's course on the road.
  4. The way which one acts; one's mode of behaviour:
    1. A way or procedure for doing something; a method.
    2. A moral or religious path; the course of one's life.
    3. (Late ME) One's lifestyle or demeanour; the way one chooses to act.
    4. (Late ME) Gait; the way one walks.
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Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse gata

NounEdit

gate f or m (definite singular gata or gaten, indefinite plural gater, definite plural gatene)

  1. a street

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse gata

NounEdit

gate f (definite singular gata, indefinite plural gater, definite plural gatene)

  1. a street

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PortugueseEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English gate.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

gate m (plural gates)

  1. (electronics) gate (circuit that implements a logical operation)
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Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

gate m (plural gates)

  1. (India) mountain
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Etymology 3Edit

VerbEdit

gate

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of gatar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of gatar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of gatar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of gatar

ScotsEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Old Norse gata.

NounEdit

gate (plural gates)

  1. street, way, road, path

TernateEdit

EtymologyEdit

Compare Tidore gate.

NounEdit

gate

  1. heart
  2. liver

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ReferencesEdit

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001). A Descriptive Study of the Language of Ternate, the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia. University of Pittsburgh
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