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gate

1 [geyt]

noun, verb, gat⋅ed, gat⋅ing.

–noun

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.

Skiing.

a.	an obstacle in a slalom race, consisting of two upright poles anchored in the snow a certain distance apart.

b.	the opening between these poles, through which a competitor in a slalom race must ski.

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.

a.	Also called ingate. a channel or opening in a mold through which molten metal is poured into the mold cavity.

b.	the waste metal left in such a channel after hardening.

16.

Electronics.

a.	a signal that makes an electronic circuit operative or inoperative either for a certain time interval or until another signal is received.

b.	Also called logic gate. a circuit with one output that is activated only by certain combinations of two or more inputs.

–verb (used with object)

17.	(at British universities) to punish by confining to the college grounds.

18.

Electronics.

a.	to control the operation of (an electronic device) by means of a gate.

b.	to select the parts of (a wave signal) that are within a certain range of amplitude or within certain time intervals.

–verb (used without object)

19.	Metallurgy. to make or use a gate.

—Idioms

20.	get the gate, Slang. to be dismissed, sent away, or rejected.

21.

give (someone) the gate, Slang.

a.	to reject (a person), as one's fiancé, lover, or friend.

b.	to dismiss from one's employ: They gave him the gate because he was caught stealing.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME gat, gate, OE geat (pl. gatu); c. LG, D gat hole, breach; cf. gate ²

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gate

2 [geyt]

–noun

1.	Archaic. a path; way.

2.	North England and Scot.. habitual manner or way of acting.

Origin:
1150–1200; ME < ON gata path; perh. akin to OE geat gate ¹ ; cf. gat ³

-gate

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.

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gate¹ (gāt)

A structure that can be swung, drawn, or lowered to block an entrance or a passageway.
1. An opening in a wall or fence for entrance or exit.
2. The structure surrounding such an opening, such as the monumental or fortified entrance to a palace or walled city.
3. A means of access: the gate to riches.
4. A passageway, as in an airport terminal, through which passengers proceed when boarding or leaving an airplane.
1. A means of access: the gate to riches.
2. A passageway, as in an airport terminal, through which passengers proceed when boarding or leaving an airplane.
A mountain pass.
The total paid attendance or admission receipts at a public event: a good gate at the football game.
A device for controlling the passage of water or gas through a dam or conduit.
The channel through which molten metal flows into a shaped cavity of a mold.
Sports A passage between two upright poles through which a skier must go in a slalom race.
A logic gate.

tr.v. gat·ed, gat·ing, gates

Chiefly British To confine (a student) to the grounds of a college as punishment.
Electronics To select part of (a wave) for transmission, reception, or processing by magnitude or time interval.
To furnish with a gate: "The entrance to the rear lawn was also gated" (Dean Koontz).

[Middle English, from Old English geat.]

gate² (gāt)

Chiefly British A particular way of acting or doing; manner.
Archaic A path or way.

[Middle English, from Old Norse gata; see ghē- in Indo-European roots.]

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Gate

Gate\ (g[=a]t), n. [OE. [yogh]et, [yogh]eat, giat, gate, door, AS. geat, gat, gate, door; akin to OS., D., & Icel. gat opening, hole, and perh. to E. gate a way, gait, and get, v. Cf. Gate a way, 3d Get.]

1. A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.

2. An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.

Knowest thou the way to Dover? Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath. --Shak.

Opening a gate for a long war. --Knolles.

3. A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.

4. (Script.) The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.

The gates of hell shall not prevail against it. --Matt. xvi. 18.

5. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.

6. (Founding) (a) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate. (b) The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. [Written also geat and git.]

Gate chamber, a recess in the side wall of a canal lock, which receives the opened gate.

Gate channel. See Gate, 5.

Gate hook, the hook-formed piece of a gate hinge.

Gate money, entrance money for admission to an inclosure.

Gate tender, one in charge of a gate, as at a railroad crossing.

Gate valva, a stop valve for a pipe, having a sliding gate which affords a straight passageway when open.

Gate vein (Anat.), the portal vein.

To break gates (Eng. Univ.), to enter a college inclosure after the hour to which a student has been restricted.

To stand in the gate, or gates, to occupy places or advantage, power, or defense.

Gate

Gate\, v. t. 1. To supply with a gate.

2. (Eng. Univ.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.

Gate

Gate\, n. [Icel. gata; akin to SW. gata street, lane, Dan. gade, Goth. gatw["o], G. gasse. Cf. Gate a door, Gait.]

1. A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate). [O. Eng. & Scot.]

I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate. --Sir W. Scott.

2. Manner; gait. [O. Eng. & Scot.]

Language Translation for : gate

Spanish: puerta; verja,

German: das Tor,

Japanese: 門

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gate

O.E. gæt (pl. geatu) "opening, passage," from P.Gmc. *gatan (cf. O.N., O.S., O.Fris., Du. gat "an opening"), of unknown origin. Meaning "money collected from selling tickets" dates from 1896. Gate-crasher is from 1927.

Main Entry: ¹gate
Pronunciation: 'gAt
Function: noun
: a molecule or part of a molecule (as an amino acid sequence in a protein) that acts (as bya change in conformation) in response to a stimulus to permit or block passage through a cell membrane

Main Entry: ²gate
Function: vt
Inflected Forms: gat·ed; gat·ing
: to control passage through a cell membrane by way of (aspecific channel) by supplying a specific stimulus gated by the neurotransmitter acetylcholine> —see LIGAND-GATED VOLTAGE-GATED

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.
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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.

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see crash the gate; give someone the air (gate).

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