[geyt] 
noun, verb, gat⋅ed, gat⋅ing.| 1. | a movable barrier, usually on hinges, closing an opening in a fence, wall, or other enclosure. |
| 2. | an opening permitting passage through an enclosure. |
| 3. | a tower, architectural setting, etc., for defending or adorning such an opening or for providing a monumental entrance to a street, park, etc.: the gates of the walled city; the palace gate. |
| 4. | any means of access or entrance: The gate to stardom is talent. |
| 5. | a mountain pass. |
| 6. | any movable barrier, as at a tollbooth or a road or railroad crossing. |
| 7. | a gateway or passageway in a passenger terminal or pier that leads to a place for boarding a train, plane, or ship. |
| 8. | a sliding barrier for regulating the passage of water, steam, or the like, as in a dam or pipe; valve. |
| 9. | Skiing.
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| 10. | the total number of persons who pay for admission to an athletic contest, a performance, an exhibition, etc. |
| 11. | the total receipts from such admissions. |
| 12. | Cell Biology. a temporary channel in a cell membrane through which substances diffuse into or out of a cell. |
| 13. | Movies. film gate. |
| 14. | a sash or frame for a saw or gang of saws. |
| 15. | Metallurgy.
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| 16. | Electronics.
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| 17. | (at British universities) to punish by confining to the college grounds. |
| 18. | Electronics.
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| 19. | Metallurgy. to make or use a gate. |
| 20. | get the gate, Slang. to be dismissed, sent away, or rejected. |
| 21. | give (someone) the gate, Slang.
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| a combining form extracted from Watergate, occurring as the final element in journalistic coinages, usually nonce words, that name scandals resulting from concealed crime or other alleged improprieties in government or business: Koreagate. |
| gate 1 (gāt) n.
[Middle English, from Old English geat.] |
| gate 2 (gāt) n.
[Middle English, from Old Norse gata; see ghē- in Indo-European roots.] |
GATE
GAT Extended? Based on IT.
[Sammet 1969, p. 139].
gate hardware
A low-level digital logic component. Gates perform Boolean functions (e.g. AND, NOT), store bits of data (e.g. a flip-flop), and connect and disconnect various parts of the overall circuit to control the flow of data (tri-state buffer).
In a CPU, the term applies particularly to the buffers that route data between the various functional units. Each gate allows data to flow from one unit to another or enables data from one output onto a certain bus.
(1999-09-02)
Gate
(1.) Of cities, as of Jerusalem (Jer. 37:13; Neh. 1:3; 2:3; 3:3), of Sodom (Gen. 19:1), of Gaza (Judg. 16:3). (2.) Of royal palaces (Neh. 2:8). (3.) Of the temple of Solomon (1 Kings 6:34, 35; 2 Kings 18:16); of the holy place (1 Kings 6:31, 32; Ezek. 41:23, 24); of the outer courts of the temple, the beautiful gate (Acts 3:2). (4.) Tombs (Matt. 27:60). (5.) Prisons (Acts 12:10; 16:27). (6.) Caverns (1 Kings 19:13). (7.) Camps (Ex. 32:26, 27; Heb. 13:12). The materials of which gates were made were, (1.) Iron and brass (Ps. 107:16; Isa. 45:2; Acts 12:10). (2.) Stones and pearls (Isa. 54:12; Rev. 21:21). (3.) Wood (Judg. 16:3) probably. At the gates of cities courts of justice were frequently held, and hence "judges of the gate" are spoken of (Deut. 16:18; 17:8; 21:19; 25:6, 7, etc.). At the gates prophets also frequently delivered their messages (Prov. 1:21; 8:3; Isa. 29:21; Jer. 17:19, 20; 26:10). Criminals were punished without the gates (1 Kings 21:13; Acts 7:59). By the "gates of righteousness" we are probably to understand those of the temple (Ps. 118:19). "The gates of hell" (R.V., "gates of Hades") Matt. 16:18, are generally interpreted as meaning the power of Satan, but probably they may mean the power of death, denoting that the Church of Christ shall never die.
