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单词 gateway
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Definition of gateway in English:

gateway

nounˈɡeɪtweɪˈɡeɪtˌweɪ
  • 1An opening that can be closed by a gate.

    we turned into a gateway leading to a cottage
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Crowds waiting outside Windsor Castle applauded as the cortège made its way through the main gateway.
    • About a mile down the road, on the right, you'll come to an imposing brick gateway with wrought-iron gates.
    • But it was like a gateway, and when you opened the door, not only good things came through, but so do bad things.
    • The entrances to the houses and the gateways got high praise and it goes to prove what a little effort can do.
    • Bags of household rubbish have been dumped into two streams - tributaries of the River Dalgan - while others have been thrown across fences and gateways into private property.
    • They function as fencing around a front courtyard, as siding on the house and a small gateway, and as paneling on interior walls and partitions.
    • A bright green ribbon spanned the entrance at the gateway together with a Congratulations ribbon, which was cut.
    • The gateway, entrance and pathway required a bit of concrete work and a lot of gravel hauling.
    • There was a fear that people would use the road more often to escape the gateways.
    • Arrogant, selfish motorists think nothing of leaving their vehicles in front of entrances and gateways.
    • With only two exits open - narrow gateways at that - there is no possibility that a panicked crowd could get safely to the lower level with no direction from anyone in authority.
    • After the gateway, there are two such openings where the wall hits the sand.
    • New gateways and private entrances have yet to be created and farmers are still waiting for essential fencing work to be done.
    • The entrance through the outer ramparts was joined to the inner gateway by an ingeniously defended approach.
    • Janus was supposedly the god of new beginnings and gateways and was able to look backwards and forwards simultaneously.
    • The work involved the widening of the entrance gateway thus eradicating the danger of traffic emerging unto Church Road from the church grounds.
    Synonyms
    doorway, entrance, exit, egress, opening
    1. 1.1 A frame or arch built around or over a gate.
      a big house with a wrought-iron gateway
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The still, quiet atmosphere of the temple is haunting as I walk through the unique construction of four gateways - unlike other temples on the island.
      • The entire surface of the gateways is covered with bas-reliefs representing scenes from the life of Gautama Buddha, stories from the Jatakas, along with decorative elements.
      • Boasting a four-storey arched gateway, the building covered an area of 1,900 square metres and had a total of 3,400 square metres floor space.
      • This straw-dry, stone-strewn river plain is perfect for grapes, planted in long straight rows protected by tidy fences with impressive gateways and fancy names for the wines they produce.
      • The gateway frames part of the curving balustrade, helping to point the way to the front door.
      • From time to time, a group of bearded clerics wearing their traditional cloaks emerge from the tiny entrance to the Church of the Nativity, a gateway so low that adults must bend to pass in and out of the shrine.
      • Its main structures include the temple gate, memorial gateways, halls, wing-rooms, a mausoleum pavilion and a garden.
      • The whole structure pivots upward to form a gateway arch.
      • In addition, there are five ancient ancestral temples, four schools, one reading room, two pavilions, and three memorial gateways.
      • The gateway arch was dark - evidently it isn't lit during the wee hours of the morning.
      • This was the genesis of the famous gopurams, or entrance gateways of the temple cities of the south.
      • This could be due to the fact that the square was a essentially a static form, signifying calm and rest, while the entrance gateway needed to have some dynamism.
      • This was one of many neoclassical projects - columns, gateways, and arches were the commonest - intended to commemorate the Napoleonic wars.
      • But it is not only that sweater; it is the buildings, walls, doors, gateways, gardens, and homes that carry the very same historical and memorial weight.
      • Towers, statues, pointed ceilings, balconies, gateways, and windows decorated the castle from the outside, creating a marvel for those outside to take in.
      • Up ahead he could see the gateway that marked the entrance to ‘The Garden’.
      • Through the arch of the inner gateway mined buildings are visible, scattered across a grassy plateau with the citadel on higher ground at the far end.
      • Soon after, the gateway, entrance passage, and parts of the ramparts were attacked and heavily burnt.
      • During these months, Wright's original vision of ornamental concrete arched gateways scaled to frame the auditorium became steel bridges on columns subordinate in size to the auditorium.
      • Although a bridge associated with two arches or gateways is found in the tradition derived from Ligorio, these are never both placed on the bridge proper.
    2. 1.2 A place regarded as giving access to another place.
      Mombasa, the gateway to East Africa
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The gateway to the World Heritage Bungle Bungles is a small community called Warmun, halfway between Halls Creek and Kununurra in the east Kimberley.
      • Many companies, particularly from America, view Ireland as the gateway to the marketplace of the EU.
      • Bergen, a charming port city, is the gateway to the country's most impressive fjords.
      • Katima Mulilo, the regional capital, is the gateway to the Chobe National Park in Botswana and the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe.
      • For centuries Gravesend was an important shipping centre and the town still calls itself the gateway to the Port of London.
      • The Millfield roundabout on York's ring road has become the gateway to a number of potential snack spots.
      • ‘We look forward to seeing the new design and making progress towards creating the gateway to Settle that local people want to see,’ she added.
      • New buildings line the west edge of West Street; a new public square on West Street marks the gateway to the financial district.
      • Bolton has marketed itself as the gateway to the North-west, close to major attractions and just an hour's drive to the Lake District, which itself has not been included in the survey.
      • Still, as the war approached its final season, Mobile was one of the South's last strongholds, the gateway to an untouched plantation hinterland.
      • Many investors and companies view Ireland as the gateway to the market of 370 million people, which comprises the membership of the European Union.
      • The strategically located Gwalior fort was fair game, in its position as the gateway to central India, for all would-be potentates.
      • Rochdale Railway Station could become the gateway to the town under new plans disclosed this week.
      • We will continue to market Ireland for the purposes of inward investment as the gateway to the market place of an enlarged European Union.
      • Two towers were built across the world from each other and were apparently the gateway to another world.
      • Trevelez is, perhaps, Spain's highest village, the gateway to the Upper Sierra Nevada and the winter ski-slopes, and was as high as I drove.
      • Two hours north by air is Shark Bay airport, the gateway to a World Heritage area and the Monkey Mia Dolphin Resort, which offers so much more than just swish hotels and room service.
      • Anywhere in the Southern Alps it is easy to feel as Samuel Butler's hero did in Erewhon, that the high pass at the head of the valley is the gateway to some mysterious land.
      • At the same time, French ports, the gateway to the world under the Ancien Régime, were steadily undermined.
      • This place is the gateway to the high Andes and the Chilean border.
    3. 1.3 A means of achieving a state or condition.
      to me a home in the country was a gateway to happiness
      Example sentencesExamples
      • For medical researchers and other scientists, it's the gateway to funding, publication, and career advancement.
      • This book - several feet high - is the gateway, literally by way of a hidden passage, to the next section, The Dragon's Hand.
      • It was pointed out that access is the gateway to full participation in society for people with both physical and sensory disabilities.
      • The gateway course also provides a route in to higher education for those seeking a change in direction in terms of their career path.
      • What is life to someone who wishes that death was a gateway to paradise and that life is just a journey of hardships?
  • 2Computing
    A device used to connect two different networks, especially a connection to the Internet.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A gateway has an Internet connection on one side, and some sort of LAN connection on the other.
    • The company also offers packaged Internet devices and Ethernet gateways.
    • All that we had was a customer that had two different gateways, two different internet connections; if one were to fail they would switch to the other one.
    • But it's possible to demand subscriptions through access gateways, then give patrons rights of use through those gateways by asking them for the bar code numbers on their library cards.
    • Implementing security at the internet gateway can block phishing email and sites.
 
 

Definition of gateway in US English:

gateway

nounˈɡeɪtˌweɪˈɡātˌwā
  • 1An opening that can be closed by a gate.

    we turned into a gateway leading to a small cottage
    Example sentencesExamples
    • With only two exits open - narrow gateways at that - there is no possibility that a panicked crowd could get safely to the lower level with no direction from anyone in authority.
    • But it was like a gateway, and when you opened the door, not only good things came through, but so do bad things.
    • The work involved the widening of the entrance gateway thus eradicating the danger of traffic emerging unto Church Road from the church grounds.
    • There was a fear that people would use the road more often to escape the gateways.
    • The entrances to the houses and the gateways got high praise and it goes to prove what a little effort can do.
    • The gateway, entrance and pathway required a bit of concrete work and a lot of gravel hauling.
    • Crowds waiting outside Windsor Castle applauded as the cortège made its way through the main gateway.
    • New gateways and private entrances have yet to be created and farmers are still waiting for essential fencing work to be done.
    • They function as fencing around a front courtyard, as siding on the house and a small gateway, and as paneling on interior walls and partitions.
    • Bags of household rubbish have been dumped into two streams - tributaries of the River Dalgan - while others have been thrown across fences and gateways into private property.
    • The entrance through the outer ramparts was joined to the inner gateway by an ingeniously defended approach.
    • A bright green ribbon spanned the entrance at the gateway together with a Congratulations ribbon, which was cut.
    • About a mile down the road, on the right, you'll come to an imposing brick gateway with wrought-iron gates.
    • Janus was supposedly the god of new beginnings and gateways and was able to look backwards and forwards simultaneously.
    • After the gateway, there are two such openings where the wall hits the sand.
    • Arrogant, selfish motorists think nothing of leaving their vehicles in front of entrances and gateways.
    Synonyms
    doorway, entrance, exit, egress, opening
    1. 1.1 A frame or arch built around or over a gate.
      a big house with a wrought-iron gateway
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This was the genesis of the famous gopurams, or entrance gateways of the temple cities of the south.
      • Although a bridge associated with two arches or gateways is found in the tradition derived from Ligorio, these are never both placed on the bridge proper.
      • During these months, Wright's original vision of ornamental concrete arched gateways scaled to frame the auditorium became steel bridges on columns subordinate in size to the auditorium.
      • The gateway arch was dark - evidently it isn't lit during the wee hours of the morning.
      • In addition, there are five ancient ancestral temples, four schools, one reading room, two pavilions, and three memorial gateways.
      • This straw-dry, stone-strewn river plain is perfect for grapes, planted in long straight rows protected by tidy fences with impressive gateways and fancy names for the wines they produce.
      • The gateway frames part of the curving balustrade, helping to point the way to the front door.
      • Soon after, the gateway, entrance passage, and parts of the ramparts were attacked and heavily burnt.
      • Boasting a four-storey arched gateway, the building covered an area of 1,900 square metres and had a total of 3,400 square metres floor space.
      • Through the arch of the inner gateway mined buildings are visible, scattered across a grassy plateau with the citadel on higher ground at the far end.
      • Towers, statues, pointed ceilings, balconies, gateways, and windows decorated the castle from the outside, creating a marvel for those outside to take in.
      • This was one of many neoclassical projects - columns, gateways, and arches were the commonest - intended to commemorate the Napoleonic wars.
      • This could be due to the fact that the square was a essentially a static form, signifying calm and rest, while the entrance gateway needed to have some dynamism.
      • Up ahead he could see the gateway that marked the entrance to ‘The Garden’.
      • But it is not only that sweater; it is the buildings, walls, doors, gateways, gardens, and homes that carry the very same historical and memorial weight.
      • Its main structures include the temple gate, memorial gateways, halls, wing-rooms, a mausoleum pavilion and a garden.
      • The entire surface of the gateways is covered with bas-reliefs representing scenes from the life of Gautama Buddha, stories from the Jatakas, along with decorative elements.
      • The whole structure pivots upward to form a gateway arch.
      • The still, quiet atmosphere of the temple is haunting as I walk through the unique construction of four gateways - unlike other temples on the island.
      • From time to time, a group of bearded clerics wearing their traditional cloaks emerge from the tiny entrance to the Church of the Nativity, a gateway so low that adults must bend to pass in and out of the shrine.
    2. 1.2 A means of access or entry to a place.
      Mombasa, the gateway to East Africa
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Rochdale Railway Station could become the gateway to the town under new plans disclosed this week.
      • The Millfield roundabout on York's ring road has become the gateway to a number of potential snack spots.
      • Trevelez is, perhaps, Spain's highest village, the gateway to the Upper Sierra Nevada and the winter ski-slopes, and was as high as I drove.
      • ‘We look forward to seeing the new design and making progress towards creating the gateway to Settle that local people want to see,’ she added.
      • This place is the gateway to the high Andes and the Chilean border.
      • Katima Mulilo, the regional capital, is the gateway to the Chobe National Park in Botswana and the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe.
      • The gateway to the World Heritage Bungle Bungles is a small community called Warmun, halfway between Halls Creek and Kununurra in the east Kimberley.
      • Many companies, particularly from America, view Ireland as the gateway to the marketplace of the EU.
      • Two towers were built across the world from each other and were apparently the gateway to another world.
      • We will continue to market Ireland for the purposes of inward investment as the gateway to the market place of an enlarged European Union.
      • At the same time, French ports, the gateway to the world under the Ancien Régime, were steadily undermined.
      • Anywhere in the Southern Alps it is easy to feel as Samuel Butler's hero did in Erewhon, that the high pass at the head of the valley is the gateway to some mysterious land.
      • New buildings line the west edge of West Street; a new public square on West Street marks the gateway to the financial district.
      • Two hours north by air is Shark Bay airport, the gateway to a World Heritage area and the Monkey Mia Dolphin Resort, which offers so much more than just swish hotels and room service.
      • Still, as the war approached its final season, Mobile was one of the South's last strongholds, the gateway to an untouched plantation hinterland.
      • Many investors and companies view Ireland as the gateway to the market of 370 million people, which comprises the membership of the European Union.
      • The strategically located Gwalior fort was fair game, in its position as the gateway to central India, for all would-be potentates.
      • For centuries Gravesend was an important shipping centre and the town still calls itself the gateway to the Port of London.
      • Bergen, a charming port city, is the gateway to the country's most impressive fjords.
      • Bolton has marketed itself as the gateway to the North-west, close to major attractions and just an hour's drive to the Lake District, which itself has not been included in the survey.
    3. 1.3 A means of achieving a state or condition.
      curiosity is the gateway to learning
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This book - several feet high - is the gateway, literally by way of a hidden passage, to the next section, The Dragon's Hand.
      • What is life to someone who wishes that death was a gateway to paradise and that life is just a journey of hardships?
      • The gateway course also provides a route in to higher education for those seeking a change in direction in terms of their career path.
      • For medical researchers and other scientists, it's the gateway to funding, publication, and career advancement.
      • It was pointed out that access is the gateway to full participation in society for people with both physical and sensory disabilities.
    4. 1.4Computing A device used to connect two different networks, especially a connection to the Internet.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But it's possible to demand subscriptions through access gateways, then give patrons rights of use through those gateways by asking them for the bar code numbers on their library cards.
      • The company also offers packaged Internet devices and Ethernet gateways.
      • Implementing security at the internet gateway can block phishing email and sites.
      • All that we had was a customer that had two different gateways, two different internet connections; if one were to fail they would switch to the other one.
      • A gateway has an Internet connection on one side, and some sort of LAN connection on the other.
 
 
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