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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.0.48 [gcide]:
Gate \Gate\, verb (used with an object)
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.0.48 [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.0.48 [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.0.48 [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.0.48 [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 WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
1: a 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: {gate}, {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
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