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entry, movable barrier at entrance
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barrier, movable barrier at entrance
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movable barrier at entrance
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movable barrier at entrance
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movable barrier at entrance
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How to use gate in a sentence
Yet he feared to meet her eyes, and was glad of a saluting sepoy who swaggered jauntily past the open gate.
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At once the sepoys at the Kashmir Gate fired a volley at the nearest officers, of whom three fell dead.
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WORDS RELATED TO GATE
- access
- accession
- advance
- advent
- avenue
- coming
- drawing near
- entrance
- gate
- landing
- nearing
- passage
- path
- reaching
- road
- way
- attitudes
- concepts
- courses
- cracks
- flings
- go
- ideas
- licks
- manners
- means
- methods
- modes
- modus operandis
- new wrinkles
- offers
- procedures
- programs
- shots
- stabs
- styles
- techniques
- ways
- whacks
- wrinkles
- assemblage
- assembly
- audience
- box office
- company
- congregation
- crowd
- draw
- gate
- gathering
- gross
- house
- observers
- onlookers
- patrons
- public
- spectators
- turnout
- witnesses
- gate
- receipts
- ticket booth
- bank
- barrage
- barrier
- dike
- ditch
- gate
- grade
- hindrance
- levee
- milldam
- millpond
- obstruction
- weir
- ax
- bounce
- bum’s rush
- congé
- demobilization
- ejection
- gate
- old heave-ho
- pink slip
- the boot
- the door
- walking papers
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Table Of Contents:
- Gate as a Noun
- Definitions of «Gate» as a noun
- Synonyms of «Gate» as a noun (13 Words)
- Usage Examples of «Gate» as a noun
- Associations of «Gate» (30 Words)
The synonyms of “Gate” are: logic gate, barrier, wicket, wicket gate, lychgate, five-barred gate, turnstile, gateway, doorway, entrance, exit, egress, opening
Gate as a Noun
Definitions of «Gate» as a noun
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “gate” as a noun can have the following definitions:
- An arrangement of slots into which the gear lever of a motor vehicle moves to engage each gear.
- A computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs.
- An electric circuit with an output which depends on the combination of several inputs.
- The money taken for admission to a sports ground for an event.
- A hinged barrier used to close an opening in a wall, fence, or hedge.
- The part of a field-effect transistor to which a signal is applied to control the resistance of the conductive channel of the device.
- A hinged or sliding barrier for controlling the flow of water.
- A movable barrier in a fence or wall.
- A gateway.
- A device resembling a gate in structure or function.
- The number of people who pay to enter a sports ground for an event.
- A device for holding each frame of a film in position behind the lens of a camera or projector.
- Total admission receipts at a sports event.
- An exit from an airport building to an aircraft.
- Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- A mountain pass or other natural passage.
Synonyms of «Gate» as a noun (13 Words)
| barrier | A circumstance or obstacle that keeps people or things apart or prevents communication or progress. A language barrier. |
| doorway | The entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close. Beth stood there in the doorway. |
| egress | The reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse. Direct means of access and egress for passengers. |
| entrance | The act of entering. The entrance to a tunnel. |
| exit | The act of going out. The brief soliloquy following Clarence s exit. |
| five-barred gate | A movable barrier in a fence or wall. |
| gateway | A frame or arch built around or over a gate. We turned into a gateway leading to a cottage. |
| logic gate | A system of reasoning. |
| lychgate | A roofed gateway to a churchyard, formerly used at burials for sheltering a coffin until the clergyman’s arrival. |
| opening | The act of opening something. I covered the opening of a new computerized diagnosis unit. |
| turnstile | A mechanical gate consisting of revolving horizontal arms fixed to a vertical post, allowing only one person at a time to pass through. |
| wicket | Cricket equipment consisting of a set of three stumps topped by crosspieces; used in playing cricket. When they inspected the wicket they found it being rolled by some prisoners. |
| wicket gate | A computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs. |
Usage Examples of «Gate» as a noun
- A departure gate.
- She closed the front gate.
- They were opening the gates of their country wide to the enemy.
- A sluice gate.
- The Golden Gate.
- She went out through the gate.
- A logic gate.
- An average home gate of more than 12,000.
Associations of «Gate» (30 Words)
| admittance | The process or fact of entering or being allowed to enter a place or institution. People were unable to gain admittance to the hall. |
| bang | Leap jerk bang. He banged home four penalties in the opening twenty minutes. |
| closed | With shutters closed. A closed shop. |
| compressed | Reduced in volume by pressure. With lips compressed. |
| dam | Build a dam across a river or lake. The closed lock gates dammed up the canal. |
| door | The entrance the space in a wall through which you enter or leave a room or building the space that a door can close. They live two doors up the street from us. |
| doorway | The entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close. He stuck his head in the doorway. |
| embankment | A bank of earth or stone built to carry a road or railway over an area of low ground. A railway embankment. |
| entrance | The right, means, or opportunity to enter somewhere or be a member of an institution, society, or other body. She made a grand entrance. |
| fascinate | Attract the strong attention and interest of (someone. The serpent fascinates its prey. |
| floodgate | A gate that can be opened or closed to admit or exclude water, especially the lower gate of a lock. His lawsuit could open the floodgates for thousands of similar claims. |
| gateway | A place regarded as giving access to another place. We turned into a gateway leading to a cottage. |
| inviting | Attractive and tempting. The sea down there looks so inviting. |
| jamb | A side post or surface of a doorway, window, or fireplace. He leaned against the door jamb. |
| lintel | Horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window. |
| lock | Fasten with a lock. He is treated like an unpaid servant and locked in his room. |
| mesmerize | Hypnotize (someone. He was mesmerized when at the point of death. |
| penstock | A sluice for controlling or directing the flow of water. |
| porch | A covered shelter projecting in front of the entrance of a building. Daniel and Lydia sat out on the porch for many hours. |
| portal | A grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically. Many healthcare providers already utilize portals through which a patient can access test results. |
| shut | Move so that an opening or passage is obstructed make shut. They ought to shut the path up to that terrible cliff. |
| shutdown | A turning off of a computer or computer system. The build up was pushing the reactor towards shutdown. |
| shutter | Close the shutters of a window or building. The city was gripped by economic forces that were squeezing its tax base and shuttering its factories. |
| sill | A shelf or slab of stone, wood, or metal at the foot of a window opening or doorway. |
| slam | Dance the slam dance. Charlie slammed down the phone. |
| sluice | Conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate. Sluice the earth. |
| spellbind | To render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe. The singer held the audience spellbound. |
| threshold | The sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway. Their water would meet the safety threshold of 50 milligrams of nitrates per litre. |
| toll | Charge a toll for the use of a bridge or road. A toll bridge. |
| window | An opening that resembles a window in appearance or function. The expanded window will give us time to catch the thieves. |
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as in door
a barrier by which an entry is closed and opened
be sure to latch the gate when you leave so the dog doesn’t get out
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as in doorway
the opening through which one can enter or leave a structure
passed through the gates of the walled city
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as in valve
a fixture for controlling the flow of a liquid
opens the gate in the lock so the ships can get through the canal
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noun
a movable barrier, usually on hinges, closing an opening in a fence, wall, or other enclosure.
an opening permitting passage through an enclosure.
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.
any means of access or entrance: The gate to stardom is talent.
a mountain pass.
any movable barrier, as at a tollbooth or a road or railroad crossing.
a gateway or passageway in a passenger terminal or pier that leads to a place for boarding a train, plane, or ship.
a sliding barrier for regulating the passage of water, steam, or the like, as in a dam or pipe; valve.
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.
the total number of persons who pay for admission to an athletic contest, a performance, an exhibition, etc.
the total receipts from such admissions.
Cell Biology. a temporary channel in a cell membrane through which substances diffuse into or out of a cell.
a sash or frame for a saw or gang of saws.
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.
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.
verb (used with object), gat·ed, gat·ing.
(at British universities) to punish by confining to the college grounds.
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), gat·ed, gat·ing.
Metallurgy. to make or use a gate.
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Idioms about gate
- to reject (a person), as one’s fiancé, lover, or friend.
- to dismiss from one’s employ: They gave him the gate because he was caught stealing.
get the gate, Slang. to be dismissed, sent away, or rejected.
give (someone) the gate, Slang.
Origin of gate
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First recorded before 900; Middle English gat, gate, geat, Old English geat (plural gatu ); cognate with Low German, Dutch gat “hole, breach”; cf. gate2
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH gate
gait, gate
Words nearby gate
gas welding, gas well, gasworks, gat, gata, gate, gate array, gâteau, gate-crash, gate-crasher, gated
Other definitions for gate (2 of 3)
noun
Archaic. a path; way.
North England and Scot.. habitual manner or way of acting.
Origin of gate
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First recorded in 1150–1200; Middle English gate, gat, gata, from Old Norse gata “path, way, road,” Old High German gazza, German Gasse “lane, alley”; perhaps akin to Old English geat gate1; cf. gat3
Other definitions for gate (3 of 3)
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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Words related to gate
bar, door, doorway, exit, fence, port, access, conduit, egress, gateway, issue, lock, opening, passage, portal, portcullis, slammer, turnstile, way, weir
How to use gate in a sentence
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Healthe concedes its entry gate may not be as critical as its 222 nm products focused on air decontamination, but says it a valuable part of its layered approach to disinfection.
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One of the first major tech companies out of the gate with a questionably useful product is LG.
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FinFET maintained fine control of current by surrounding the channel with a gate on three sides.
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A transistor is “on” when the gate allows current to flow, and it’s off when no current flows.
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If women’s soccer became popular and could attract those kinds of gates, that would take away from the men’s professional team.
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The Florida GOP senator stormed out of the gate Wednesday in the highest of dudgeons.
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Said it was like speed dating because he was late after hitting every wrong gate on the lot.
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They dumped his body at the gate of a black cemetery—his head and right arm were gone.
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“We shoot at Sunset Gower Studios, and you can see the street through the gate,” he says.
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In earlier centuries academies existed to decide what was art, while today we have gallerists and critics at the gate.
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Yet he feared to meet her eyes, and was glad of a saluting sepoy who swaggered jauntily past the open gate.
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At once the sepoys at the Kashmir Gate fired a volley at the nearest officers, of whom three fell dead.
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First through the gate came a company of Korean foot-soldiers, in blue uniforms.
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Bride and bridegroom, accompanied by the weeping crowd, proceeded to the castle gate.
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A rough track led to the gate, and Frank knocked loudly on an iron-studded door.
British Dictionary definitions for gate (1 of 4)
noun
a movable barrier, usually hinged, for closing an opening in a wall, fence, etc
an opening to allow passage into or out of an enclosed place
any means of entrance or access
a mountain pass or gap, esp one providing entry into another country or region
- the number of people admitted to a sporting event or entertainment
- the total entrance money received from them
(in a large airport) any of the numbered exits leading to the airfield or aircraftpassengers for Paris should proceed to gate 14
electronics
- a logic circuit having one or more input terminals and one output terminal, the output being switched between two voltage levels determined by the combination of input signals
- a circuit used in radar that allows only a fraction of the input signal to pass
the electrode region or regions in a field-effect transistor that is biased to control the conductivity of the channel between the source and drain
a component in a motion-picture camera or projector that holds each frame flat and momentarily stationary behind the lens
a slotted metal frame that controls the positions of the gear lever in a motor vehicle
rowing a hinged clasp to prevent the oar from jumping out of a rowlock
a frame surrounding the blade or blades of a saw
verb (tr)
to provide with a gate or gates
British to restrict (a student) to the school or college grounds as a punishment
to select (part of a waveform) in terms of amplitude or time
Derived forms of gate
gateless, adjectivegatelike, adjective
Word Origin for gate
Old English geat; related to Old Frisian jet opening, Old Norse gat opening, passage
British Dictionary definitions for gate (2 of 4)
noun dialect
the channels by which molten metal is poured into a mould
the metal that solidifies in such channels
Word Origin for gate
C17: probably related to Old English gyte a pouring out, geotan to pour
British Dictionary definitions for gate (3 of 4)
noun Scot and Northern English dialect
a way, road, street, or path
a way or method of doing something
Word Origin for gate
C13: from Old Norse gata path; related to Old High German gazza road, street
British Dictionary definitions for gate (4 of 4)
n combining form
indicating a person or thing that has been the cause of, or is associated with, a public scandalIrangate; Camillagate
Word Origin for -gate
C20: on the analogy of Watergate
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Other Idioms and Phrases with gate
see crash the gate; give someone the air (gate).
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