Gate
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English
Noun
Gate (plural Gates)- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- Movable barrier.
- (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.
- 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
Verb
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.
Noun
Gate (plural Gates)- (now Scotland, northern UK) A way, path.
- (Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street.
Adjectives for Gate
rusty; unclosed; churlish; inexorable; curtained; yawning; swinging; wooden; steel; decorated; awful; moon-lit; spectral; monumental; thronged; fast-locked; characteristic; facile; infernal; massive; mosque; million-dollar; forbidden; figured; eastern; widest; celestial; huge; applauding; painted; hospitable; silent; folding; sculptured; gorgeous; occidental; shadowy; seaward; enchanted; grim; guarded; wicket; latched.
Verbs for Gate
admit at—; bar—; beat against—; besiege—; fling open—; furnish—; guard—; knock on—; latch—; mend—; pass through—; repair—; storm—; swing on—; —bars; —hangs; —prevents.
Thesaurus
access, admissions, air lock, arch dam, archway, assemblage, attendance, audience, avails, back door, backstop, ball cock, ball valve, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, barway, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, boom, box office, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bullion, bulwark, bunghole, button, carriage entrance, cashiering, cast, casting, cellar door, cellarway, cock, cofferdam, commissions, conge, credit, credits, crowd, dam, defense, deposal, dike, discharge, disemployment, dismissal, displacing, disposable income, ditch, dividend, dividends, dock gate, door, doorjamb, doorpost, doorway, drain cock, draw cock, drumming out, earned income, earnings, earthwork, embankment, entrance, exit, faucet, fence, firing, flood-hatch, floodgate, forced separation, front door, furloughing, gains, gate receipts, gatepost, gateway, get, gravity dam, groin, gross, gross income, gross receipts, hatch, hatchway, head gate, hydrant, hydraulic-fill dam, income, ingate, ingot, intake, iron curtain, jam, jetty, layoff, leaping weir, levee, lintel, lock, lock gate, logjam, make, milldam, moat, mole, mound, needle valve, net, net income, net receipts, opening, output, parapet, passage, penstock, petcock, pig, pink slip, porch, portal, portcullis, proceeds, produce, profits, propylaeum, pylon, rampart, receipt, receipts, receivables, regulus, removal, retirement, returns, revenue, roadblock, rock-fill dam, royalties, runner, scuttle, sea cock, seawall, sheet metal, shutter dam, side door, sluice, sluice gate, sow, spigot, sprue, stile, stone wall, stopcock, storm door, surplusing, suspension, take, take-in, takings, tap, tedge, the ax, the boot, the bounce, the gate, the sack, threshold, ticket, tide gate, tollgate, trap, trap door, turnpike, turnstile, unearned income, valve, walking papers, wall, water gate, weir, wicket dam, work, yield
Synonyms
(computing): logic gate
