Definitions for: Gate


[n] a door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall
[n] a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
[n] passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
[n] total admission receipts at a sports event
[v] restrict movement to the dormitory or campus, of British schoolboys, as a means of punishment
[v] control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
[v] supply with a gate; "The house was gated"



Webster (1913) Definition: Gate (g[=a]t), n. [OE. [yogh]et, [yogh]eat, giat, gate,
door, AS. geat, gat, gate, door; akin to OS., D., & Icel. gat
opening, hole, and perh. to E. gate a way, gait, and get, v.
Cf. Gate a way, 3d Get.]
1. A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an
inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.;
also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by
which the passage can be closed.

2. An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or
barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens
a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance
or of exit.

Knowest thou the way to Dover? Both stile and gate,
horse way and footpath. --Shak.

Opening a gate for a long war. --Knolles.

3. A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage
of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.

4. (Script.) The places which command the entrances or
access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.

The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
--Matt. xvi.
18.

5. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt
to pass through or into.

6. (Founding)
(a) The channel or opening through which metal is poured
into the mold; the ingate.
(b) The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue
or sullage piece. [Written also geat and git.]

Gate chamber, a recess in the side wall of a canal lock,
which receives the opened gate.

Gate channel. See Gate, 5.

Gate hook, the hook-formed piece of a gate hinge.

Gate money, entrance money for admission to an inclosure.


Gate tender, one in charge of a gate, as at a railroad
crossing.

Gate valva, a stop valve for a pipe, having a sliding gate
which affords a straight passageway when open.

Gate vein (Anat.), the portal vein.

To break gates (Eng. Univ.), to enter a college inclosure
after the hour to which a student has been restricted.

To stand in the gate, or gates, to occupy places or
advantage, power, or defense.


Gate, v. t.
1. To supply with a gate.

2. (Eng. Univ.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates
at an earlier hour than usual.


Gate, n. [Icel. gata; akin to SW. gata street, lane, Dan.
gade, Goth. gatw["o], G. gasse. Cf. Gate a door, Gait.]
1. A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate). [O. Eng.
& Scot.]

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 W.
Scott.

2. Manner; gait. [O. Eng. & Scot.]

Synonyms: logic gate

See Also: air terminal, airport terminal, AND circuit, AND gate, arrival gate, bound, computer circuit, confine, control, departure gate, Dipylon, Dipylon gate, flexible joint, furnish, gross, head gate, hinge, lichgate, limit, lock, lock-gate, lychgate, movable barrier, NAND circuit, NAND gate, operate, OR circuit, OR gate, passageway, portcullis, postern, provide, receipts, render, restrain, restrict, revenue, supply, tail gate, tailboard, tailgate, throttle, tollbar, tollgate, trammel, turnpike, turnstile, wicket, wicket door, wicket gate, XOR circuit, X-OR circuit, XOR gate

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