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▪ I. ˈgateway1
[f. gate n.1 + way.]
1. A passage that is or may be closed by a gate; an opening through a fence or wall. ? Obs.
1707Mortimer Husb. 233 Gate-ways between their enclosures are so miry..that they cannot..Cart between one Field and another.
2. A frame or arch in which a gate is hung; a structure built at or over a gate, for ornament or defence.
1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) V. 299 View of an ancient gateway, dedicated to Nicholas bishop of Exeter. 1832W. Irving Alhambra I. 91 Having the most marvellous stories to relate of every tower, and vault, and gateway of the fortress. 1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 45 A lofty massive front with three fortified and portcullised gateways.
attrib.1850Tennyson In Mem. viii, A happy lover..Who 'lights and rings the gateway bell. 1853W. Jerdan Autobiog. IV. 53 He latterly occupied apartments at the top of one of the gateway-towers. 1886Willis & Clark Cambridge III. 283 A large gateway-arch flanked by a postern-arch. Ibid. 284 The gateway-tower..was..employed for the first time in collegiate architecture..at New College, Oxford, and..at Winchester.
3. transf. and fig.
a. A means of egress or ingress.
b. = gate n.1 4.
1842Tennyson Locksley Hall 157 At the gateways of the day. 1857G. Wilson (title) The five gateways of knowledge. 1877M. M. Grant Sun-Maid i, In summer wrapt in a sunshine radiant and glorious as the gateway of heaven. 1878B. Taylor Deukalion ii. ii. 58 Say to the East, her gateway of return stands open. 1884Harper's Mag. May 878/2 Snoqualmie Pass..is the lowest gateway of the Cascade Range. 1896Montreal Gaz. 3 Dec. 5/3 The Canadian Pacific Railway having routed all its Northwest business through the Port-Arthur gateway.
4. local. = gate, gat1.
1794J. Boys Agric. Kent 32 Sloping passages in the cliff, called gate-ways, for the carts to go down to the sea.
▸ Computing. A device or interface which connects two or more separate computer systems, networks, or programs, and which typically provides services such as routeing data, handling user access, and enabling communication between networks which use different protocols.
1974V. G. Cerf & R. E. Kahn in IEEE Trans. Communications 22 638/2 The interface between networks must play a central role in the development of any network interconnection strategy. We give a special name to this interface that performs these functions and call it a gateway. 1986Pract. Computing Oct. 108/3 They provide room on their own systems to host small databases, and offer gateways out to other, larger hosts. 1990Pract. Computing Sept. 85/3 This [Etherprint hardware utility] enables printers with Apple's built-in network, Localtalk, to be connected to Ethernet, a standard PC network, without the need for an expensive gateway or router. 1997NewMedia 3 Nov. 21/4 Netscape is working on a CGI-to-CORBA gateway that will let HTML clients talk to CORBA servers as well. 2000Wired July 178/1 The trio will offer both wireless and tethered webpads, as well as a ‘residential gateway’—a home server ‘the size of a lava lamp’ that will cache Web pages through a landline and serve them wirelessly at 11 Mbps.
▸ gateway drug n. orig. U.S. a drug (such as cannabis or alcohol) perhaps regarded as relatively harmless or non-addictive in itself but perceived as leading to the use of hard drugs such as heroin and cocaine; also in extended use.
1982Jrnl. Drug Educ. 12 355 The course was attitudes toward the use of the ‘soft’ or ‘*gateway’ drugs (i.e., tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana). 2000Big Issue 17–23 July 27/4 This is the gateway drug of the dub world, luring unsuspected dabblers into the deadly waters of Sleng Teng. 2002N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Apr. a20/4 Here in Connecticut, decreases in drug use among adolescents are for the most part steeper than those seen on average nationally—with the greatest decreases among gateway drugs like alcohol, marijuana and inhalants.
▪ II. ˈgateway2
[f. gate n.2 + way.]
Mining. = gate n.2 6.
1786Hartland in Nicholls Forest Dean (1858) 76 Oak timber is necessary..for making what the miners call the gateway, or gangway, from the body of coal to the pit. 1888W. E. Nicholson Gloss. Coal Trade Terms (Northumbld. Gloss.), Gateway, a roadway; in a pit, a passage through the goaf..for the purpose of bringing out coals worked on the long wall system.
▪ III. gateway, v. Computing.
Brit. |ˈgeɪtweɪ|, U.S. |ˈgeɪtˌweɪ|
[‹ gateway n.1]
1. intr. To become joined or connected by a gateway (gateway n.1).
1983Computerworld (Nexis) 15 June 82/4 The local-area network will roll out to other building sites, eventually ‘gatewaying to distant areas’ and integrating with the ‘packet-based environments’ on both an international and domestic level. 1988ICL Techn. Jrnl. 6 111 It is highly desirable that the network service should be able to ‘gateway’ into the external service to make it transparent to the end user.
2. trans. To transmit or connect by means of a gateway. Usu. in pass.
1983U.S. Banker (Nexis) Aug. 42 [The] Insurance and brokerage services will be gatewayed from the network provider. 1995Guardian 28 Sept. (OnLine Section) 5/5 The list will be gatewayed to Usenet's misc.future.2000-ad, if visitors vote for its creation. 2001D. Mitton et al. Request for Comments (Network Working Group) (Electronic text) No. 3127. 24 With the addition of any necessary compatibility variables SNMP can be gatewayed to RADIUS applications. |