Gate

Pronunciation

• IPA: /É¡eɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

From Old English ġeat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą ("hole, opening") (cf. Swedish/Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰed-ye/o ("to defecate") (cf. Albanian dhjes, Ancient Greek χέζω, Old Armenian ձետ (jet, "tail"), Avestan (zadah, "rump")).

Full definition of gate

Noun

1. (door-like structure outside)A doorlike structure outside a house.
2. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
3. Movable barrier.The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
4. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
5. (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
6. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
7. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
8. passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
9. (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
10. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
11. (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
12. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.

Synonyms

• (computing) logic gate

Derived terms

Verb

1. To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
2. To ground someone.
3. (biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.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 18 December 2009. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=mboc4&part=A1986&rendertype=figure&id=A2030.
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.

From Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwÇ­. Cognate with Danish gade, Swedish gata, German Gasse ("lane").

Noun

1. (now Scotland, northern UK) A way, path.
• Sir Walter ScottI 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.
• Spenser Faerie Queene, II.xii:nought regarding, they kept on their gate,
  And all her vaine allurements did forsake ....
3. (Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street.
4. (UK, Scotland, dialect, archaic) manner; gait

Anagrams

• Geat
• geta