13 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

gate

noun

1: a door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall

2: a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs [syn: {logic gate}]

3: total admission receipts at a sports event

4: passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark

verb

1: supply with a gate; "The house was gated"

2: control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate

3: restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Geat \Geat\ (g[=e]t), noun [See {Gate} a door.] (Founding) The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting. [Written also {git}, {gate}.]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Gate \Gate\ (g[=a]t), noun [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 {To stand in the gates}, to occupy places or advantage, power, or defense.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Gate \Gate\, verb (used with an object)

1. To supply with a gate.

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

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Gate \Gate\, noun [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.]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Sash \Sash\, noun [F. ch[^a]ssis a frame, sash, fr. ch[^a]sse a shrine, reliquary, frame, L. capsa. See {Case} a box.]

1. The framing in which the panes of glass are set in a glazed window or door, including the narrow bars between the panes.

2. In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; -- also called {gate}.

{French sash}, a casement swinging on hinges; -- in distinction from a vertical sash sliding up and down.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Swing \Swing\, verb (used with an object)

1. To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other.

He swings his tail, and swiftly turns his round. --Dryden.

They get on ropes, as you must have seen the children, and are swung by their men visitants. --Spectator.

2. To give a circular movement to; to whirl; to brandish; as, to swing a sword; to swing a club; hence, colloquially, to manage; as, to swing a business.

3. (Mach.) To admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping it; -- said of a lathe; as, the lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.

{To swing a door}, {gate}, etc. (Carp.), to put it on hinges so that it can swing or turn.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

196 Moby Thesaurus words for "gate": French door, aboideau, access, admissions, air lock, arch dam, archway, assemblage, attendance, audience, avails, back door, backstop, ball cock, ball valve, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, barway, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, boom, box office, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bullion, bulwark, bunghole, button, carriage entrance, cashiering, cast, casting, cellar door, cellarway, cock, cofferdam, commissions, conge, credit, credits, crowd, dam, defense, deposal, dike, discharge, disemployment, dismissal, displacing, disposable income, ditch, dividend, dividends, dock gate, door, doorjamb, doorpost, doorway, drain cock, draw cock, drumming out, earned income, earnings, earthwork, embankment, entrance, exit, faucet, fence, firing, flood-hatch, floodgate, forced separation, front door, furloughing, gains, gate receipts, gatepost, gateway, get, gravity dam, groin, gross, gross income, gross receipts, hatch, hatchway, head gate, hydrant, hydraulic-fill dam, income, ingate, ingot, intake, iron curtain, jam, jetty, layoff, leaping weir, levee, lintel, lock, lock gate, logjam, make, milldam, moat, mole, mound, needle valve, net, net income, net receipts, opening, output, parapet, passage, penstock, petcock, pig, pink slip, porch, portal, portcullis, porte cochere, postern, proceeds, produce, profits, propylaeum, pylon, rampart, receipt, receipts, receivables, regulus, removal, retirement, returns, revenue, roadblock, rock-fill dam, royalties, runner, scuttle, sea cock, seawall, sheet metal, shutter dam, side door, sluice, sluice gate, sow, spigot, sprue, stile, stone wall, stopcock, storm door, surplusing, suspension, take, take-in, takings, tap, tedge, the ax, the boot, the bounce, the gate, the sack, threshold, ticket, tide gate, tollgate, trap, trap door, turnpike, turnstile, unearned income, valve, valvula, valvule, walking papers, wall, water gate, weir, wicket dam, work, yield

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

GATE GAT Extended? Based on {IT}. [Sammet 1969, p. 139].

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

gate A low-level {digital} logic component. Gates perform {Boolean} {functions} (e.g. {AND}, {NOT}), store {bit}s 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)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

Gate, OK (town, FIPS 28800) Location: 36.85187 N, 100.05539 W Population (1990): 159 (73 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73844

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

Gate, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma Population (2000): 112 Housing Units (2000): 61 Land area (2000): 0.252347 sq. miles (0.653576 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.252347 sq. miles (0.653576 sq. km) FIPS code: 28800 Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40 Location: 36.851903 N, 100.055805 W ZIP Codes (1990): 73844 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Gate, OK Gate

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

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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