单词 | gateway |
释义 | gatewayn.1 1. A passage that is or may be closed by a gate; an opening through a fence or wall. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > opening or break in continuity > in a wall, hedge, fence, dike, etc. sharda1000 gapc1380 slopc1386 slapc1425 intermission1624 gap-stead1644 gool1664 gateway1707 break1725 smeuse1819 rent1879 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 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. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > opening which may be passed through > gate or gateway gate778 gate-stead1610 port of entry1714 gateway1782 the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > gate > frame in which gate is hung gate-head1718 gateway1782 1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) V. 297 View of an ancient gateway, dedicated to Nicholas bishop of Exeter. 1832 W. Irving Alhambra I. 91 Having the most marvellous stories to relate of every tower, and vault, and gateway of the fortress. 1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 413 A lofty massive front with three fortified and portcullised gateways. 3. transferred and figurative. a. A means of egress or ingress. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > means of entrance doorc825 gatec1175 coming ina1398 ingressc1420 entress1481 indraughta1626 gateway1842 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > means of exit outgangOE gatec1175 outletc1275 outgoinga1387 water gatea1393 ish14.. issuec1400 outgatec1485 ushing1489 outway1571 egress1660 utterance1662 débouché1760 debouch1813 gateway1842 outgo1869 outfall1883 outcome1885 1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 108 At the gateways of the day. 1857 G. Wilson (title) The five gateways of knowledge. 1876 M. M. Grant Sun-maid I. i. 4 In summer wrapt in a sunshine radiant and glorious as the gateway of heaven. 1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion ii. ii. 58 Say to the East, her gateway of return stands open. b. = gate n.1 4. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, passage, or means of access to a place > [noun] > through hills or difficult ground portc1275 pacec1330 close?a1400 destrayt1481 gate1601 gut1615 passc1650 defile1685 ghat1698 mountain pass1707 bealach1794 ca1795 poort1834 Passover1839 droke1848 gateway1884 1884 Harper's Mag. May 878/2 Snoqualmie Pass..is the lowest gateway of the Cascade Range. 1896 Gazette (Montreal) 3 Dec. 5/3 The Canadian Pacific Railway having routed all its Northwest business through the Port-Arthur gateway. 4. local = gate n.1, gat n.1 ΚΠ 1794 J. Boys Gen. View Agric. Kent 32 Sloping passages in the cliff, called gate-ways, for the carts to go down to the sea. Draft additions January 2002 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. ΚΠ 1974 V. 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. 1986 Pract. Computing Oct. 108/3 They provide room on their own systems to host small databases, and offer gateways out to other, larger hosts. 1990 Pract. 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. 1997 NewMedia 3 Nov. 21/4 Netscape is working on a CGI-to-CORBA gateway that will let HTML clients talk to CORBA servers as well. 2000 Wired 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. Draft additions March 2004 gateway drug n. originally 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. ΚΠ 1982 Jrnl. Drug Educ. 12 355 The course was attitudes toward the use of the ‘soft’ or ‘gateway’ drugs (i.e., tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana). 2000 Big Issue 17 July 27/4 This is the gateway drug of the dub world, luring unsuspected dabblers into the deadly waters of Sleng Teng. 2002 N.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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2019). gatewayn.2 Mining. = gate n.2 6. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > passage gate1747 road1770 gangway1778 gateway1786 bolt-hole1839 trumpeting1839 travelling road1851 slope1863 spout-road1882 1786 Hartland 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. 1888 W. E. Nicholson Gloss. Terms Coal Trade in 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019). gatewayv. Computing. 1. intransitive. To become joined or connected by a gateway (gateway n.1). ΚΠ 1983 Computerworld (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. 1988 ICL 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. transitive. To transmit or connect by means of a gateway. Usually in passive. ΚΠ 1983 U.S. Banker (Nexis) Aug. 42 [The] Insurance and brokerage services will be gatewayed from the network provider. 1995 Guardian 28 Sept. (OnLine section) 5/5 The list will be gatewayed to Usenet's misc.future.2000-ad, if visitors vote for its creation. 2001 D. 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. 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