gate en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- [ˈɡæ̝ɪ̯t] (Australia, New-Zealand)
- /ˈɡæɪ̯t/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
- /ɡeːt/ (Wales) without the pane–pain merger
- (General-American) audio
- /ɡet/ (Scotland)
- audio
- /ˈɡeɪ̯t/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From Middle English gate (the forms ȝate and ȝeat yielded the dialectal doublet yate), from the plural of Old English ġeat (specifically gatu), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”). See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.
Meanings
- A doorlike structure outside a house.
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A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
At 7, he made his exit through the Ch‘ien-ch‘ing and the Lung-tsung gates, and thence, through the Yung-Hang Gate he entered the Tz‘u-ning Palace.
1870 June [1870 April], “The Peking Gazettes”, in Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume 3, number 1, Foochow: American Presbyterian Mission Press, →OCLC, page 12, column 1:
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A movable barrier.
The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
- A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
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A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
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.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 246:
- 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; tedge.
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
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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.
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A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
After all, not using film has advantages other than cost: the curse of getting a hair in the gate (the rectangular opening at the front of a camera) is gone; the problem of getting dirt on the film swept away.
2023 March 16, John Boorman, “Today’s ‘films’ are nothing of the sort – so stop calling them that”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- (qualifier: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.
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An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
For its part, Universal is also continuing to grow domestically, with its new second gate in Orlando – Volcano Bay – opening around the same time as Pandora.
2018 April 16, John Reynolds, Cambridge IGCSE First Language English 4th edition, Hachette UK, →ISBN:Disneyland opened its second gate – Disney's California Adventure. It was located exactly where Westcot would have been, directly across a central plaza from the Disneyland main gate.
2006 August 1, Shaun Finnie, The Disneylands That Never Were, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 168:At Disneyland Paris, the much-delayed “second gate,” a Walt Disney Studios theme park, opened on March 16.
2008 December 9, James B. Stewart, Disneywar: The Battle for the Magic Kingdom, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:It would encompass more than 500 acres and include a new theme park, several hotels, two mammoth parking garages with direct access from the freeway and a "third gate" — land set aside for future expansion.
1993 05, Rich Mannino, “The World According to Disney”, in Orange Coast Magazine, page 83:
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(slang) A place where drugs are illegally sold.
The very first dread I worked with, Dusty, had his gate at 55 Bowen.
2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into The Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 69:There's not a gate in the West Side area that lasts longer than a month other than the ones I service. Gates go up and come down just as fast.
2018, Robert Ricks, Fast Furious & Fatherless: An Urban Tale, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu Publishing Services, →ISBN, page 244:The gangs were fighting for control of "drug gates," control points for the sale of crack cocaine, heroin and marijuana.
1996 April 24, “Connecticut: Task Force Successful In Curbing Street Gangs”, in Organized Crime Digest, volume 17, number 9, Annandale, V.A.: Washington Crime News Service, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:I put more guns in East Coast niggas' hands than East Coast niggas did when they came out here. I put them niggas on to more weed gates and weed spots and safe havens and safe spots than the East Coast did.
1996 June, Tupac Shakur, quotee, “Inside the Mind of Shakur”, in Tupac Shakur, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 101:The spatial mapping of Jamaica onto U.S. cities entails the erection of dance halls, reggae clubs, smoking yards or "weed gates," select storefront vendors of Rasta apparel, ritual paraphernalia, and ital ("natural" and approved) foods (Hepner 1998: 206).
2007, Paul Christopher Johnson, Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa, Berkeley, C.A. […]: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 56:
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(dated, qualifier:jive talk) A man; a male person.
He said, "Come on, gates, and jump with me / At the June Teenth Jamboree."
1940, Louis Jordan, “June Teenth Jamboree”, performed by Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five:Louie wants you to get in there and lay yo' racket on that writin' machine so all the fine dinners and gates up in the land o' darkness will be hep and truck on down to this frolic pad 'cause the joint's really gonna be jumpin' and everythin' will be fine as wine like watermelon on the vine.
1944 December 8, “Broadway Jam Session”, in The Tampa Times:Whatcha gonna say there, gate?
1939, Cab Calloway, Frank Froeba, Jack Palmer, “Jumpin' Jive”:
- A tunnel serving the coal face.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| yate | alternative | lexicographic | |
| gates | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
waste gate · floodgate · front gate · Conformity Gate · Kevin's Gate · stair gate · oxgate · gate fever · Abbey Gate · gate-money · Cross Gates · midgate · Texas gate · gateable · gate time · Pipe Gate · Southgate · OR gate · rambler gate · gatewoman · moon gate · tollgate · Northgate · wicket gate · backgate · baby gate · jade gate · Ambergate · liftgate · Gates of Hercules · waygate · lock gate · trigate · swing gate · snow gate · Dieselgate · pearly gates · Kingsgate · pincer gate · gate vein · gatefold · photogate · hair in the gate · Moses Gate · multigate · departure gate · ticket gate · gate rape · NAND gate · gateleg · beartrap gate · Duna-gate · Bishopsgate · Irongate · Churchgate · gateline · Sandgate · e-gate · wombgate · tide gate · bridle gate · like a bull at a gate · through the gate · kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate · garden gate · Caspian Gates · wastegate · gatewise · timegate · Broughams Gate · New Cross Gate · gateman · Squires Gate · Kara Gates · Ramsgate Beach · gatehouse · straight out of the gate · Burragate · gatekeep · gate guard · Dzungarian Gate · AND gate · Iron Gates · fluxgate · gateware · gate box · Stonegate · screwgate · sluice-gate · gate-happy · Aldgate · gate-crasher · V Gate · Halton Lea Gate · eye-gate · XOR gate · gatepier · Hutton Gate · equivalence gate · field-programmable gate array · flood gate · foregate · Fredkin gate · Bogan Gate · Deutsch gate · Stargateverse · lychgate · gate of hell · Moravian Gate · Grays Gate · gateless · East Newdegate · gatecrash · logic gate · dragon gate · qugate · gateway · boarding gate · chamber gate · Stanton Gate · flap gate · sluice gate · Clergate · Thorngate · Holgate · water gate · gate of ivory · tailgate · stargate · gate of horn · arrival gate · highgate · resurrection gate · beast-gate · endgate · stairgate · handgate · gate array · outgate · starting gate · Gates of Alexander · Gategate · matchgate · flood-gate · hell gate · Lower Southgate · radial gate · farmgate · Hot Gates · proselyte of the gate · kissing gate · five-barred gate · Highgate Hill · out of the gate · Harrogate · gate-crash · Baldwin's Gate · XNOR gate · quantum logic gate · Highgate · difference gate · quantum gate · gate lice · boom gate · Ramsgate · plantgating · agate · gate-toothed · Choi Soon-sil-gate · gate valve · moongate · Toffoli gate · Tainter gate · County Gates · tori gate · Cilician Gates · CCNOT gate · degate · oxengate · gate-to-wire · faregate · Gate City · Malay gate · kiss-me-at-the-gate · NOT gate · gatelike · Redgate · algate · five-bar gate · sluice-gate price · gate-keep · right out of the gate · South Newdegate · Forest Gate · car gate · A20 gate · lych-gate · watergate · corpse-gate · trance gate · gate-keepy · Margate · gatepost · gate crasher · Gateway Island · Gateshead · noise gate · jumpgate · NOR gate · gate crash · Jobs Gate · gatekeeper · sea gate · Woodgate · Newdegate · stand in the gate · Two Gates · gatetender · age gate · gate money · Blackmoor Gate · Ashton Gate · back gate · headgate · gate house · gate guardian · gate receipts
Hyponyms
Synonyms
guy · dude · gome · chap · doorway · guy · bro · were · health · covey · ninja · dude · dog [⇒ thesaurus] (slang) · bruh · broski · fellow · homeboy · logic gate · lede · wer · cat · punk · bloke · gink · pillicock · fella · dawg · seg · gloak · omi · chappy · wye · wallah · cove · joe · boy · rooster · nigga · homey · entrance · geezer · gadgie · cat · shalk · chield · passage · gate
Translations (285)
my ဂိတ် (door-like structure outside) · be бра́ма (door-like structure outside) · af poort (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · eo pasejo (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · sv port (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · sh ка̀пија (door-like structure outside) · ja 大門 (door-like structure outside) · bg по́рта (door-like structure outside) · lt vartai (door-like structure outside) · es compuerta (computing: logical pathway) · ga geata (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · es rejado (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · nap canciello (door-like structure outside) · zza macelığ (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · kpv дзиръя (door-like structure outside) · tyz ảng (door-like structure outside) · km មាត់ច្រក (door-like structure outside) · alt какпак (door-like structure outside) · ani кав (door-like structure outside) · el πύλη (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · clt thlake (door-like structure outside) · cs brána (door-like structure outside) · cmn 登機口 /登机口 (in an air terminal) · fr grille ((electronics) name of one terminal of a transistor) · es portón (door-like structure outside) · ro poartă (door-like structure outside) · mk капија (computing: logical pathway) · ba ҡапҡа (door-like structure outside) · ast portón (door-like structure outside) · ko 대문 (door-like structure outside) · cmn 閘口 /闸口 (in an air terminal) · hsb wrota (door-like structure outside) · tl tarangkahan (door-like structure outside) · yue 閘 /闸 (door-like structure outside) · ru воро́та (door-like structure outside) · bg по́рта (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · sl vrata (door-like structure outside) · it uscita; porta; gate (in an air terminal) · bg ка́сов сбор (money made by selling tickets for an event) · da sluse (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · gmw-cfr Porz (door-like structure outside) · is hlið (in an air terminal) · sv port (door-like structure outside) · lv vārti (door-like structure outside) · mr द्वार (door-like structure outside) · la porta (door-like structure outside) · et värav (door-like structure outside) · cy porth (door-like structure outside) · sv gate ((electronics) name of one terminal of a transistor) · mk влез (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · ru вентиль (computing: logical pathway) · sk brána (door-like structure outside) · uga 𐎘𐎙𐎗 (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · ja 搭乗口 (in an air terminal) · mn ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠯᠭᠠ (in an air terminal) · uk воро́та (door-like structure outside) · tg дар (door-like structure outside) · he איבול \ אִבּוּל (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · my တံခါး (door-like structure outside) · az darvaza (door-like structure outside) · fr porte logique (computing: logical pathway) · ga geata (door-like structure outside) · wa poite (door-like structure outside) · sh kàpija (door-like structure outside) · fi portti (door-like structure outside) · akk abullum (door-like structure outside) · as নঙলা (door-like structure outside) · ca taquilla (door-like structure outside) · nb port (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · sw lango (door-like structure outside) · ja ゲート (computing: logical pathway) · ja 売上げ (money made by selling tickets for an event) · es verja (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · mhr капка (door-like structure outside) · km មាត់ទ្វារ (door-like structure outside) · pl bramka ((electronics) name of one terminal of a transistor) · haw puka (door-like structure outside) · ms pintu pagar (door-like structure outside) · ja ゲート (in an air terminal) · fr porte (door-like structure outside) · tk derweze (door-like structure outside) · ps دروازه (door-like structure outside) · nb port (door-like structure outside) · sq portë (door-like structure outside) · he שַׁעַר (door-like structure outside) · de Tor (door-like structure outside) · bn গেট (door-like structure outside) · udm капка (door-like structure outside) · kmr derwaze (door-like structure outside) · es puerta (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · be варо́ты (door-like structure outside) · fr porte (in an air terminal) · as ফটক (door-like structure outside) · rif tawwurt (door-like structure outside) · sc arreccia (door-like structure outside) · av каву (door-like structure outside) · sc ècca (door-like structure outside) · es puerta (in an air terminal) · lb Paart (door-like structure outside) · la porta (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · gd geata (door-like structure outside) · ks دَروازٕ (door-like structure outside) · fi portti (in an air terminal) · ur دَرْوازَہ (door-like structure outside) · bo རྒྱལ་སྒོ (door-like structure outside) · hy մուտք (in an air terminal) · fo lið (door-like structure outside) · gl poxigo (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · haw puka (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · el αυλόπορτα (door-like structure outside) · ga geata (in an air terminal) · eo barilpordo (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · uk бра́ма (door-like structure outside) · fur puarton (door-like structure outside) · cy gât (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · km ទ្វារ (door-like structure outside) · it cancello (door-like structure outside) · tt капка (door-like structure outside) · zza ber (diq) (door-like structure outside) · es portalón (door-like structure outside) · sc gècca (door-like structure outside) · cmn 門 /门 (door-like structure outside) · is hlið (door-like structure outside) · gl portelo (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · cmn 門 /门 (computing: logical pathway) · uz darvoza (door-like structure outside) · cy llidiart (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · de Flugsteig (in an air terminal) · dng гэмын (door-like structure outside) · dsb wrota (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · cv хапха (door-like structure outside) · ru вы́ход (in an air terminal) · nl gate ((electronics) name of one terminal of a transistor) · ur دوار (door-like structure outside) · hi फाटक (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · el θύρα (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · sk vráta (door-like structure outside) · sv gate (in an air terminal) · cy clwyd (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · ar بَوَّابَة (door-like structure outside) · afb بوابة (door-like structure outside) · fa-ira دَرْوازِه (door-like structure outside) · ruq poartă (door-like structure outside) · vi cổng (door-like structure outside) · yi טויער (door-like structure outside) · rm porta (door-like structure outside) · oc portalièra (door-like structure outside) · nn port (door-like structure outside) · kk қақпа (door-like structure outside) · mww rooj (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · nl poort (door-like structure outside) · fa-ira دَر (door-like structure outside) · ka ჭიშკარი (door-like structure outside) · afb دروازة (door-like structure outside) · pl wrota (door-like structure outside) · clt hukaa (door-like structure outside) · gd geata (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · el πόρτα (door-like structure outside) · ur پھاٹَک (door-like structure outside) · bn দরজা (door-like structure outside) · hu kapu (door-like structure outside) · ru воро́та (in an air terminal) · mn хаалга (door-like structure outside) · hy դարպաս (door-like structure outside) · cy giât (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · sc yacca (door-like structure outside) · ky капка (door-like structure outside) · mk порта (door-like structure outside) · mk капија (door-like structure outside) · it cancello (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · ja 門 (door-like structure outside) · fr portail (door-like structure outside) · uga 𐎘𐎙𐎗 (door-like structure outside) · fi hila ((electronics) name of one terminal of a transistor) · fi portti (computing: logical pathway) · ca reixat (door-like structure outside) · mr द्वार (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · es puerta ((electronics) name of one terminal of a transistor) · sl lesa (door-like structure outside) · mk врата (door-like structure outside) · tr kapı (door-like structure outside) · ko 탑승구 (in an air terminal) · ug دەرۋازا (door-like structure outside) · af poort (door-like structure outside) · sc yaga (door-like structure outside) · gv giat (door-like structure outside) · el εξώθυρα (door-like structure outside) · mn үүд (door-like structure outside) · sv grind (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · fo grind (door-like structure outside) · gmw-cfr Porz (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · ru врата́ (door-like structure outside) · hi द्वार (door-like structure outside) · bg капи́я (door-like structure outside) · grc πύλη (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · af hek (door-like structure outside) · dng дамын (door-like structure outside) · pl brama (door-like structure outside) · yi טויער (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · as জপনা (door-like structure outside) · kmr dergeh (door-like structure outside) · fur ristiel (door-like structure outside) · pl brama (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · da port (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · da port (door-like structure outside) · ru вы́ход на поса́дку (in an air terminal) · grc πύλη (door-like structure outside) · mnc ᡩᡠᡴᠠ (door-like structure outside) · es reja (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · rup poartã (door-like structure outside) · sv grind (computing: logical pathway) · gmw-rfr Dor (door-like structure outside) · dsb wrota (door-like structure outside) · mn хаалга (in an air terminal) · mr गेट (computing: logical pathway) · zdj goɓa (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · fr porte (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · tg дарвоза (door-like structure outside) · kk дарбаза (door-like structure outside) · de Tor (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · ruo poartĕ (door-like structure outside) · ka კარი (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · ja 扉 (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · pl bramka (computing: logical pathway) · sv grind ((electronics) name of one terminal of a transistor) · es puerta (door-like structure outside) · cs vrata (door-like structure outside) · gld дока (door-like structure outside) · fo portur (door-like structure outside) · th ประตู (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · es cancela (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · pt portão (door-like structure outside) · sco yett (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · cmn 大門 /大门 (door-like structure outside) · sv grind (door-like structure outside) · bg и́зход (in an air terminal) · ru затвор ((electronics) name of one terminal of a transistor) · de Gate (in an air terminal) · izh kalitka (door-like structure outside) · ky дарбаза (door-like structure outside) · pl bramka (in an air terminal) · ca porta (door-like structure outside) · th ประตู (door-like structure outside) · fa-ira گِیْت (in an air terminal) · ka კარიბჭე (computing: logical pathway) · pt porta (in an air terminal) · el εξώπορτα (door-like structure outside) · sc rastregliu (door-like structure outside) · pt portão (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · el έξοδος (in an air terminal) · om baibala (door-like structure outside) · lo ປະຕູ (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · lo ປະຕູ (door-like structure outside) · ro poartă (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · bg врата́ (door-like structure outside) · ms gerbang (door-like structure outside) · id gerbang (door-like structure outside) · mn ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠯᠭᠠ (door-like structure outside) · cy mynedfa (door-like structure outside) · fi portti (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · pl furtka (door-like structure outside) · hi फाटक (door-like structure outside) · sdn rastéllu (door-like structure outside) · nl poort (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · ka კარიბჭე (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · eo pordego (door-like structure outside) · cy adwy (computing: logical pathway) · mww rooj (door-like structure outside) · izh veräjä (door-like structure outside) · mrj капка (door-like structure outside) · om baibala (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall) · zza kêber (diq) (computing: logical pathway) · cmn 門口 /门口 (door-like structure outside) · tr kapı (computing: logical pathway) · sco yett (door-like structure outside) · mk порта (computing: logical pathway) · mr फाटक (door-like structure outside) · da låge (door-like structure outside) · nl gate (in an air terminal) · cs hradlo (computing: logical pathway) · ko 문 (door-like structure outside) · dng мын (door-like structure outside) · sdn yaca (door-like structure outside) · mn ᠡᠭᠦᠳᠡ (door-like structure outside) · ru кали́тка (door-like structure outside)