gate

A gate

• IPA^(key): /ɡeɪt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

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), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰed- (“to defecate”) (compare Albanian dhjes, Ancient Greek χέζω (khézō), Old Armenian ձետ (jet, “tail”), Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬛𐬀𐬵‎ (zadah, “rump”)).

• yate (obsolete or dialectal)

gate (plural gates)

1. 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.
13. (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
14. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.

• (computing): logic gate

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,

     “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.

Borrowed from Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ. Cognate with Danish gade, Swedish gata, German Gasse (“lane”).

gate (plural gates)

1. (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
   • Sir Walter Scott

     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.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XII:

     […] nought regarding, they kept on their gate, / And all her vaine allurements did forsake […]

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, dialectal, archaic) Manner; gait.

• EGTA, ETag, Geat, e-tag, geat, geta

gate

1. plural of gat

gate

1. head

• Robert Rucker, Anjam Organised Phonology Data (2000), p. 2

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Borrowed from English gate.

gate m (plural gates, diminutive gatetje n)

1. airport gate

Borrowed from English Watergate.

gate m (plural gates, diminutive gatetje n)

1. (in compounds) scandal

From French gâter (“to spoil”).

gate

1. spoil

From English gate

• IPA^(key): /ɡeːt/

gate

1. gate
2. entrance door

From French gâté (“pampered”)

• IPA^(key): /ɡate/

gate

1. darling, sweetheart

   Synonym: cheri

gate

1. spoilt
2. stale, expired

From French gâter

• IPA^(key): /ɡate/

gate (medial form gat)

• to spoil, ruin

  Synonyms: abime, rwine

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

• gat, yeate, yate, ȝat, ȝæt, ȝeat, ȝate, ȝet, ȝhate

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

gate (plural gates or gaten or gate)

1. An entryway or entrance to a settlement or building; a gateway.
2. A gate (door barring an entrance or gap in a fence)
3. (figuratively) A method or way of doing something or getting somewhere.
4. (figuratively) Any kind of entrance or entryway; e.g. a crossing through mountains.

• flodegate
• Newgate

• English: gate, yate
• Scots: yett, yet, ȝett, ȝet

• “gāte (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-12.

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

• gat, gatt, gatte, gait

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːt(ə)/, /ˈɡat(ə)/

gate (plural gates)

1. A way, path or avenue; a trail or route.
2. A voyage, adventure or leaving; one's course on the road.
3. 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.

• English: gate, gait
• Scots: gate

• “gā̆te (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-12.

From Old Norse gata

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

1. a street

• “gate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse gata

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

1. a street

• “gate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English gate.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡejt͡ʃ/

gate m (plural gates)

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

• porta (more common)

gate m (plural gates)

1. (India) mountain

• monte, montanha

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

• gait
• gjet (sco, Shetland)

Borrowed from Old Norse gata.

gate (plural gates)

1. street, way, road, path

Compare Tidore gate.

gate

1. heart
2. liver

• nyinga

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