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noun ɡeɪtɡeɪt 1A hinged barrier used to close an opening in a wall, fence, or hedge. she closed the front gate figurative they were opening the gates of their country wide to the enemy Example sentencesExamples - The front security gates open and close using hydraulic pressure, which is more efficient and reliable than electricity.
- She hit a button on the wall and the front gates swung open.
- Make sure fences, walls and gates are in good repair, so children cannot slip through holes onto busy roads.
- Andrew drove up to the front gate; the gate was closed, but there was a check-in station.
- The gunmen in all cases were greeted with hospitality and obeyed requests from the owners to close gates, not break fences or frighten animals.
- There are stone benches, wrought-iron fences and gates, wall fountains, pots, pillars, and antique baskets.
- Paths, steps, walls, gates and fences draw the eye as well as the foot.
- They stopped in front of a cattle gate in the fence surrounding a pasture about a hundred yards across.
- With the front gate closed, the family house became a fortress.
- After only a few minutes they stopped in front of a large gate in a fence around what might have been a military base.
- The landscaped courtyard is enclosed by stone walls and wrought iron gates to the front and rear.
- Here the paddocks were divided by stout post and rail fences with wooden gates.
- He said he saw a little girl crying outside the barbed wire fence by the front gate of the former palace where he works.
- Many walls, fences and gates have to be clambered over.
- The city was separated into blocks of houses surrounded by high wooden walls and gates that were closed at night and guarded by a gate-keeper.
- The wall, the gates, the closed garage doors give the place an isolated feeling, which the builder marketed as security.
- He walked down to the front gate and closed it, listening to it click.
- It's been converted, of course, but when you go to bed at night you still close the barred gate on the front of your cell and bunk down.
- The dwarves immediately start cutting stone blocks and constructing a wall across the front gate.
- However, every footpath near my home has fallen trees, drainage problems, walls down, broken fences, gates and stiles.
Synonyms barrier, wicket, wicket gate, lychgate, five-barred gate, turnstile British kissing gate Scottish port in China moon gate in ancient Egypt pylon - 1.1 A gateway.
she went out through the gate Example sentencesExamples - There is no regulation that says the army soldiers stationed at the gates of the port can collect money from the truck drivers.
- The victim asked the man to go round to the side gate, allowing him access into the back garden.
- I found a group of men standing outside the gates of the port, clamoring for customers to get into their cabs.
- He said that the householders got home to find the side gate and patio door open.
- Her husband had been a porter at the palace gates until he was turned into a door knocker by a fairy.
- All buses are asked to enter through the gate on the Blessington road and leave by the main gate with no access allowed on the section between the two gates.
- These were placed at the gate or doorway of the house so that the returned souls could see where they were going.
- At irregular intervals, metal doors and gates gave access to whatever was behind the wall.
- The site now includes parking, special access gates, wide and clearly visible footpaths, reinforced grass areas and an interpretation board with Braille panel.
- At present the 30 mph limit ends at the access gates to the school and councillors are worried that, if it is not extended, there could be a serious accident in the future.
- We then exited through a huge glass door to our parked cars and drove via unguarded gates home.
- You still enter a lofty domed hall by a small door set in an imposing gate.
- Leave the car park and follow the signposted path through mixed woodland to a gate which gives access to open, rising moorland.
- And I had him walk out of the door, down the steps, out the gate; and there was a woman waiting for him.
- There are gates for our access, but we do not want the gardens open to the public.
- Yesterday was also a special day, as we had 101 visitors through the gates accessing this Mexican produce.
- I drove past the studios; the gates seemed like portals to some other world.
- She watched as ribbons of light streamed out of the statue and formed a gateway, then stepped into the gate.
- She made her way, seemingly effortlessly, over walls, through gates and under hedges as the following horde tried in vain to make ground.
- They gained access via a gate which is used by council maintenance vehicles.
Synonyms gateway, doorway, entrance, exit, egress, opening door, portal North American entryway - 1.2 An exit from an airport building to an aircraft.
Example sentencesExamples - The last shortlisted hopefuls will discover their fate at the airport departure gate.
- A stewardess was stationed at the airport departure gate to check tickets.
- He rolled out of the airport gate for a test drive, and I never saw him again.
- Some arriving planes waited two hours to get to a gate while departing aircraft queued up to be de-iced.
- The flight was cancelled and the aircraft returned to the gate.
- An exception would be a cargo operator flying parts for an airline, where the pilot would taxi right up to the airline gate to drop off a part.
- At the gate of Kabul airport the first thing that catches the eye are the big colorful advertising banners with images of men and women laughing.
- She waved one last good-bye to her parents who were standing on the other side of the security gates at Kennedy Airport.
- She'd been on his mind since he lost sight of her as he stepped from the terminal through the gate at the airport.
- I decided to brass it and head for the departure gate without a boarding card.
- The change means passengers will no longer be able to get their passes from airline personnel at gates right before they board.
- They all continued walking through the airport towards their next gate.
- They all carried two bags each and all walked in through the gates at the airport.
- With a strange combination of excitement, anxiety and eagerness, I rushed toward him as I saw him outside the gate at the airport.
- The reflective silence was not broken until we reached his gate at the airport.
- The group searched four airport departure gates and, after they could not find the man, returned to the checkpoint to retest the machine.
- Most airlines allow cell phone use when a plane is on the ground or at an airport gate.
- The type or size of aircraft assigned to each gate plays into the equation.
- If we are unfamiliar with a particular gate or taxi route, ground controllers are more than willing to help out with directions.
- The small group stood together at the departure gate at Sheridan Airport.
- 1.3in names A mountain pass or other natural passage.
2The number of people who pay to enter a sports ground for an event. an average home gate of more than 12,000 Example sentencesExamples - They are currently lying seventh in the crowd table with an average gate of 8,662.
- One, a bigger gate means greater admissions and therefore a greater return on the money.
- During the schism, and ensuing confusion, the money from the gates was down, so the church decided to get rid of one of its heads.
- Sports drew most of their revenue from gate money, but tended to set admission prices well below what the market could bear.
- The gate money from the match will be shared between both clubs.
- At that time, they were at the bottom of the Fourth Division, with big debts and low gates.
- Chelsea can do it purely on finances of course but without the security that consistent large gates, large turnover on merchandise and overseas appeal can bring.
- Our gate money has gone into lawyers' pockets rather than into the development of the game.
- Not only are there sell out crowds in the Premiership but the Nationwide Leagues have been enjoyed increased gates over the last season.
- By the very nature of their popularity, certain people can act as role models for the young, lend their good name to charity or simply add thousands to the gate of a sporting event.
- The Sharks can't survive on current gates and the hope is that by playing on Friday evening will open up the game to a new audience.
- All gate money raised at the event will be presented to the Army Welfare Society for use of disabled soldiers.
- The most disappointed people at Heywood Road were those working hard behind the scenes to boost gates and revenue at the smallest ground in the Premiership.
- The cup games will raise some income but gate money is shared with their opponents.
- However, the gate money will come as a big boost for the club, who have already racked up £1,600 in competition winnings.
- It developed into a panel of professional bowlers who visited about 50 Lancashire greens a year, and who were paid a percentage of the gate money.
- 2.1 The money taken for admission to a sports ground for an event.
Example sentencesExamples - Clubs cannot live on their gate receipts and television money is non-existent so there is a definite need for clubs to be strong throughout the country.
- It has the moral right to know whether the money collected from gates is ploughed back into the sport.
- They cannot, should not and will not disturb the basic formula: pooling the TV money and splitting the live gate.
3A device resembling a gate in structure or function. Example sentencesExamples - This strongly favors the hypothesis that the packing deficiencies detected in membrane gates might be functionally important.
- Now model years 2001 to 2005 are being recalled because their rear lift gates, well, they could open during a crash.
- We now know that those gates are proteins which, by coiling and uncoiling like a snake, can change their configuration and hence their opening and closing like gates.
- 3.1 A hinged or sliding barrier for controlling the flow of water.
Example sentencesExamples - Better and more precisely operated control gates were installed in the canals so that water could be measured more carefully.
- Workers removed a road and excavated swales to allow tidal action on the parcel, and installed a tide gate to permit water control.
- Others were trapped in their homes by the sudden rise of the water overnight Thursday when authorities were forced to open gates of dams north of Manila to prevent damage.
- The water entrance to the ram is controlled by a gate.
- Some workers were seen fishing trash out of the river to allow the water to flow more freely through the gate.
- In flood years they open the gates and fresh water flushes through the Basin and the crawfish and the fishermen flourish.
- The next morning, the kampu opens a wooden gate, releasing a flow of water that provides about nine hours of daytime irrigation.
- With its gates closed, the wall would complete a waterproof ring around the area.
- They would use an area with a 6ft draught which would suit most boats and install a half-tide sill which would open like a lock gate when the water on either side became level.
- 3.2 An arrangement of slots into which the gear lever of a motor vehicle moves to engage each gear.
Example sentencesExamples - The hallmark cavernous load cube is still its best asset while its worst point - the poor gearchange - has a closer gate but is no better overall.
- Drivers can access the feature by moving the gear selector into a separate gate.
- Both the clutch and the gears have been cleverly engineered with extra, added machismo so that you can really feel the meshing of gears when you clunk the six-speeder around its gate.
- I didn't think they made gearboxes this bad any more - the gate is far too tight so that I was forever slotting from first to fourth.
- Instead of slotting the gear lever through an H-patterned gate, you simply push it away from you repeatedly to change up, and pull back to change down.
- 3.3 A device for holding each frame of a film in position behind the lens of a camera or projector.
Example sentencesExamples - After some panicky confusion, the lights dimmed, and a single frame appeared locked in the projector gate.
- I'm convinced that film has a soul, and for me it's the jiggle in the [projector] gate.
4An electric circuit with an output which depends on the combination of several inputs. Example sentencesExamples - Things get a little more interesting if we use a circuit with two gates, as in figure 2.
- A couple of years later, scientists said they had created logic gates, another component of microchips that are used to form the basic circuits in computing.
- Computers operate with semiconductor switches known as logic gates that perform binary algebraic processes to yield an output of either zero or one.
- The prospect of 10 million gates in a device is stunning.
- These two gates are simply combinations of an AND or an OR gate with a NOT gate.
- That is, the output of a gate is fed back into the input.
- The logic gates used in the typical computers we know and love today were designed using classical laws of physics.
- To use them, however, we need to implement them in physical reality so that the gates can perform their logic actively.
- If you are so inclined, see what you can do to implement this logic with fewer gates.
- Fundamental to these operations are electronic gates for handling Boolean logic.
- Imagine a Linux computer with up to millions of gates of flexible logic immediately around it.
- Each logic gate inside a cell must have a distinct repressor assigned to it, or else the gates would interfere with one another.
- 4.1 The part of a field-effect transistor to which a signal is applied to control the resistance of the conductive channel of the device.
Example sentencesExamples - Thus, the voltage connected to the gate controls the strength of the current in the channel.
- The number of logic inputs are coupled to a number of gates of free standing vertical n-channel transistors.
- Transistors in each column of the display have connected gates and in each row have connected sources.
- The field effect transistor includes a gate over a silicon substrate.
- In an embodiment, the gate of a drive transistor is controlled by the charge on a storage node.
verb ɡeɪtɡeɪt [with object]British Confine (a pupil or student) to school or college. he was gated for the rest of term
Phrases get (or be given) the gate informal Be dismissed from a job. Example sentencesExamples - I can't see him getting the gate under any circumstances, but the natives are very restless, and a .500 campaign or less will make things much worse.
Origin Old English gæt, geat, plural gatu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gat 'gap, hole, breach'. Rhymes abate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight noun ɡeɪtɡeɪt British (in place names) a street.
Origin Middle English (also meaning 'way' in general): from Old Norse gata; related to German Gasse 'street, lane'. nounɡātɡeɪt 1A hinged barrier used to close an opening in a wall, fence, or hedge. Example sentencesExamples - Paths, steps, walls, gates and fences draw the eye as well as the foot.
- The wall, the gates, the closed garage doors give the place an isolated feeling, which the builder marketed as security.
- Here the paddocks were divided by stout post and rail fences with wooden gates.
- Many walls, fences and gates have to be clambered over.
- The dwarves immediately start cutting stone blocks and constructing a wall across the front gate.
- Andrew drove up to the front gate; the gate was closed, but there was a check-in station.
- Make sure fences, walls and gates are in good repair, so children cannot slip through holes onto busy roads.
- He walked down to the front gate and closed it, listening to it click.
- The gunmen in all cases were greeted with hospitality and obeyed requests from the owners to close gates, not break fences or frighten animals.
- The landscaped courtyard is enclosed by stone walls and wrought iron gates to the front and rear.
- There are stone benches, wrought-iron fences and gates, wall fountains, pots, pillars, and antique baskets.
- She hit a button on the wall and the front gates swung open.
- It's been converted, of course, but when you go to bed at night you still close the barred gate on the front of your cell and bunk down.
- The front security gates open and close using hydraulic pressure, which is more efficient and reliable than electricity.
- However, every footpath near my home has fallen trees, drainage problems, walls down, broken fences, gates and stiles.
- After only a few minutes they stopped in front of a large gate in a fence around what might have been a military base.
- With the front gate closed, the family house became a fortress.
- He said he saw a little girl crying outside the barbed wire fence by the front gate of the former palace where he works.
- The city was separated into blocks of houses surrounded by high wooden walls and gates that were closed at night and guarded by a gate-keeper.
- They stopped in front of a cattle gate in the fence surrounding a pasture about a hundred yards across.
Synonyms barrier, wicket, wicket gate, lychgate, five-barred gate, turnstile - 1.1 A gateway.
she went out through the gate Example sentencesExamples - You still enter a lofty domed hall by a small door set in an imposing gate.
- Her husband had been a porter at the palace gates until he was turned into a door knocker by a fairy.
- There are gates for our access, but we do not want the gardens open to the public.
- Leave the car park and follow the signposted path through mixed woodland to a gate which gives access to open, rising moorland.
- We then exited through a huge glass door to our parked cars and drove via unguarded gates home.
- He said that the householders got home to find the side gate and patio door open.
- I found a group of men standing outside the gates of the port, clamoring for customers to get into their cabs.
- Yesterday was also a special day, as we had 101 visitors through the gates accessing this Mexican produce.
- The site now includes parking, special access gates, wide and clearly visible footpaths, reinforced grass areas and an interpretation board with Braille panel.
- I drove past the studios; the gates seemed like portals to some other world.
- There is no regulation that says the army soldiers stationed at the gates of the port can collect money from the truck drivers.
- She watched as ribbons of light streamed out of the statue and formed a gateway, then stepped into the gate.
- The victim asked the man to go round to the side gate, allowing him access into the back garden.
- They gained access via a gate which is used by council maintenance vehicles.
- All buses are asked to enter through the gate on the Blessington road and leave by the main gate with no access allowed on the section between the two gates.
- These were placed at the gate or doorway of the house so that the returned souls could see where they were going.
- And I had him walk out of the door, down the steps, out the gate; and there was a woman waiting for him.
- At present the 30 mph limit ends at the access gates to the school and councillors are worried that, if it is not extended, there could be a serious accident in the future.
- At irregular intervals, metal doors and gates gave access to whatever was behind the wall.
- She made her way, seemingly effortlessly, over walls, through gates and under hedges as the following horde tried in vain to make ground.
Synonyms gateway, doorway, entrance, exit, egress, opening - 1.2 An exit from an airport building to an aircraft.
Example sentencesExamples - The last shortlisted hopefuls will discover their fate at the airport departure gate.
- The group searched four airport departure gates and, after they could not find the man, returned to the checkpoint to retest the machine.
- The type or size of aircraft assigned to each gate plays into the equation.
- Most airlines allow cell phone use when a plane is on the ground or at an airport gate.
- With a strange combination of excitement, anxiety and eagerness, I rushed toward him as I saw him outside the gate at the airport.
- The reflective silence was not broken until we reached his gate at the airport.
- The change means passengers will no longer be able to get their passes from airline personnel at gates right before they board.
- She waved one last good-bye to her parents who were standing on the other side of the security gates at Kennedy Airport.
- She'd been on his mind since he lost sight of her as he stepped from the terminal through the gate at the airport.
- They all continued walking through the airport towards their next gate.
- He rolled out of the airport gate for a test drive, and I never saw him again.
- They all carried two bags each and all walked in through the gates at the airport.
- The small group stood together at the departure gate at Sheridan Airport.
- The flight was cancelled and the aircraft returned to the gate.
- I decided to brass it and head for the departure gate without a boarding card.
- A stewardess was stationed at the airport departure gate to check tickets.
- Some arriving planes waited two hours to get to a gate while departing aircraft queued up to be de-iced.
- If we are unfamiliar with a particular gate or taxi route, ground controllers are more than willing to help out with directions.
- At the gate of Kabul airport the first thing that catches the eye are the big colorful advertising banners with images of men and women laughing.
- An exception would be a cargo operator flying parts for an airline, where the pilot would taxi right up to the airline gate to drop off a part.
- 1.3in names A mountain pass or other natural passage.
2The number of people who pay to enter a sports facility, exhibition hall, etc., for any one event. as modifier gate receipts Example sentencesExamples - The gate money from the match will be shared between both clubs.
- Sports drew most of their revenue from gate money, but tended to set admission prices well below what the market could bear.
- One, a bigger gate means greater admissions and therefore a greater return on the money.
- Chelsea can do it purely on finances of course but without the security that consistent large gates, large turnover on merchandise and overseas appeal can bring.
- It developed into a panel of professional bowlers who visited about 50 Lancashire greens a year, and who were paid a percentage of the gate money.
- They are currently lying seventh in the crowd table with an average gate of 8,662.
- All gate money raised at the event will be presented to the Army Welfare Society for use of disabled soldiers.
- Not only are there sell out crowds in the Premiership but the Nationwide Leagues have been enjoyed increased gates over the last season.
- By the very nature of their popularity, certain people can act as role models for the young, lend their good name to charity or simply add thousands to the gate of a sporting event.
- The Sharks can't survive on current gates and the hope is that by playing on Friday evening will open up the game to a new audience.
- Our gate money has gone into lawyers' pockets rather than into the development of the game.
- The most disappointed people at Heywood Road were those working hard behind the scenes to boost gates and revenue at the smallest ground in the Premiership.
- At that time, they were at the bottom of the Fourth Division, with big debts and low gates.
- However, the gate money will come as a big boost for the club, who have already racked up £1,600 in competition winnings.
- During the schism, and ensuing confusion, the money from the gates was down, so the church decided to get rid of one of its heads.
- The cup games will raise some income but gate money is shared with their opponents.
- 2.1 The money taken for admission.
Example sentencesExamples - It has the moral right to know whether the money collected from gates is ploughed back into the sport.
- Clubs cannot live on their gate receipts and television money is non-existent so there is a definite need for clubs to be strong throughout the country.
- They cannot, should not and will not disturb the basic formula: pooling the TV money and splitting the live gate.
3A device resembling a gate in structure or function. Example sentencesExamples - Now model years 2001 to 2005 are being recalled because their rear lift gates, well, they could open during a crash.
- We now know that those gates are proteins which, by coiling and uncoiling like a snake, can change their configuration and hence their opening and closing like gates.
- This strongly favors the hypothesis that the packing deficiencies detected in membrane gates might be functionally important.
- 3.1 A hinged or sliding barrier for controlling the flow of water.
Example sentencesExamples - The next morning, the kampu opens a wooden gate, releasing a flow of water that provides about nine hours of daytime irrigation.
- Some workers were seen fishing trash out of the river to allow the water to flow more freely through the gate.
- The water entrance to the ram is controlled by a gate.
- In flood years they open the gates and fresh water flushes through the Basin and the crawfish and the fishermen flourish.
- Others were trapped in their homes by the sudden rise of the water overnight Thursday when authorities were forced to open gates of dams north of Manila to prevent damage.
- They would use an area with a 6ft draught which would suit most boats and install a half-tide sill which would open like a lock gate when the water on either side became level.
- Workers removed a road and excavated swales to allow tidal action on the parcel, and installed a tide gate to permit water control.
- With its gates closed, the wall would complete a waterproof ring around the area.
- Better and more precisely operated control gates were installed in the canals so that water could be measured more carefully.
- 3.2 A device for holding each frame of a movie film in position behind the lens of a camera or projector.
Example sentencesExamples - After some panicky confusion, the lights dimmed, and a single frame appeared locked in the projector gate.
- I'm convinced that film has a soul, and for me it's the jiggle in the [projector] gate.
- 3.3Skiing An opening through which a skier must pass in a slalom course, typically marked by upright poles.
Example sentencesExamples - She picked up four seconds of penalties on her second attempt at the course after touching two gates.
- This allows for speed to be carried off the ramp and into the first few gates of the course.
- With gates to manoeuvre and unpredictable waters to negotiate, mental steel will be as vital as physical strength.
4An electric circuit with an output which depends on the combination of several inputs. Example sentencesExamples - Computers operate with semiconductor switches known as logic gates that perform binary algebraic processes to yield an output of either zero or one.
- Fundamental to these operations are electronic gates for handling Boolean logic.
- Each logic gate inside a cell must have a distinct repressor assigned to it, or else the gates would interfere with one another.
- If you are so inclined, see what you can do to implement this logic with fewer gates.
- That is, the output of a gate is fed back into the input.
- To use them, however, we need to implement them in physical reality so that the gates can perform their logic actively.
- Things get a little more interesting if we use a circuit with two gates, as in figure 2.
- The prospect of 10 million gates in a device is stunning.
- A couple of years later, scientists said they had created logic gates, another component of microchips that are used to form the basic circuits in computing.
- These two gates are simply combinations of an AND or an OR gate with a NOT gate.
- Imagine a Linux computer with up to millions of gates of flexible logic immediately around it.
- The logic gates used in the typical computers we know and love today were designed using classical laws of physics.
- 4.1 The part of a field-effect transistor to which a signal is applied to control the resistance of the conductive channel of the device.
Example sentencesExamples - Transistors in each column of the display have connected gates and in each row have connected sources.
- Thus, the voltage connected to the gate controls the strength of the current in the channel.
- The number of logic inputs are coupled to a number of gates of free standing vertical n-channel transistors.
- The field effect transistor includes a gate over a silicon substrate.
- In an embodiment, the gate of a drive transistor is controlled by the charge on a storage node.
verbɡātɡeɪt [with object]usually be gatedBritish Confine (a student) to school or college. he was gated for the rest of term
Phrases get (or be given) the gate informal Be dismissed from a job. Example sentencesExamples - I can't see him getting the gate under any circumstances, but the natives are very restless, and a .500 campaign or less will make things much worse.
Origin Old English gæt, geat, plural gatu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gat ‘gap, hole, breach’. nounɡātɡeɪt British (in place names) a street.
Origin Middle English (also meaning ‘way’ in general): from Old Norse gata; related to German Gasse ‘street, lane’. |