gate

• Dutch door
• French door
• access
• bar
• barricade
• blockade
• bolt
• cock
• conduit
• dike
• door
• doorway
• double door
• egress
• entrance
• exit
• faucet
• fence
• gateway
• guard
• hatch
• hatchway
• hedge
• hydrant
• issue
• lattice
• lock
• obstruct
• opening
• passage
• petcock
• port
• portal
• portcullis
• postern
• revolving door
• slammer
• spigot
• spout
• stopcock
• storm door
• tap
• trapdoor
• turnstile
• valve
• way
• weir
• wicket

• open
• reopen
• unbar
• unblock
• unbolt

• noun
  1. A doorlike structure outside a house.
  2. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
  3. Movable barrier.
  4. A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
  5. The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
  6. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
  7. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
  8. Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
  9. The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
  10. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
  11. The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
  12. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
  13. A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
  14. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
  15. A way, path.
  16. A journey.
  17. A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
  18. Manner; gait.
• verb
  1. To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
  2. To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
  3. To open a closed ion channel.
  4. To furnish with a gate.
  5. To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.

• The old wooden gate creaked as it opened.
• We need to lock the gate before we leave for the day.
• The security gate was manned by a guard at all times.
• She stood at the gate waiting for her friend to arrive.
• The gate to the garden was decorated with beautiful flowers.

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