Definitions for gate

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gate gate

Spelling: [geyt]

IPA: /geɪt/

Gate is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in gate (aegt).

Definitions for gate

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.:
4. any means of access or entrance:
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. an obstacle in a slalom race, consisting of two upright poles anchored in the snow a certain distance apart. 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. Also called ingate. a channel or opening in a mold through which molten metal is poured into the mold cavity. the waste metal left in such a channel after hardening.
16. Electronics. a signal that makes an electronic circuit operative or inoperative either for a certain time interval or until another signal is received. Also called logic gate. a circuit with one output that is activated only by certain combinations of two or more inputs.
17. Archaic. a path; way.
18. North England and Scot.. habitual manner or way of acting.

Idioms

1. get the gate, Slang. to be dismissed, sent away, or rejected.
2. give (someone) the gate, Slang. to reject (a person), as one's fiancé, lover, or friend. to dismiss from one's employ:

verb (used with object)

1. (at British universities) to punish by confining to the college grounds.
2. Electronics. to control the operation of (an electronic device) by means of a gate. 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)

1. Metallurgy. to make or use a gate.

Origin of gate

before 900; Middle English gat, gate, Old English geat (plural gatu); cognate with Low German, Dutch gat hole, breach; cf. gate²

Examples for gate

And the clipped privet bush by the trellis and the may tree by the gate.

They arrived at the gate without question or hindrance; but found it fastened.

In earlier centuries academies existed to decide what was art, while today we have gallerists and critics at the gate.

They dumped his body at the gate of a black cemetery—his head and right arm were gone.

Next day he called at the gate, on horseback, to inquire for mistress.

Only Ambrose was, at parting for the night, obliged to ask him for the key of the gate.

The Florida GOP senator stormed out of the gate Wednesday in the highest of dudgeons.

To his astonishment, the driver found the gate open; guards already had abounded the border post.

Over the gate was written in large letters, 'The Entrance of Mortals.'

“We shoot at Sunset Gower Studios, and you can see the street through the gate,” he says.