gates

• Dutch doors
• French doors
• access
• bar
• barricades
• bars
• blockades
• bolts
• cocks
• conduit
• dikes
• door
• doors
• doorway
• doorways
• double doors
• egress
• entrances
• exit
• faucets
• fence
• fences
• gateway
• gateways
• guards
• hatches
• hatchways
• hedges
• hydrants
• issue
• lattices
• lock
• locks
• obstructs
• opening
• passage
• petcocks
• port
• portal
• portals
• portcullis
• portcullises
• posterns
• revolving door
• revolving doors
• slammer
• spigots
• spouts
• stopcocks
• storm doors
• taps
• trapdoors
• turnstile
• valves
• way
• ways
• weir
• wickets

• opens
• reopens
• unbars
• unblocks
• unbolts

• 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 gates to the estate were adorned with beautiful wrought iron designs.
• We need to ensure that the gates are locked securely before leaving the property.
• The gates of the amusement park open at 10 a.m. every morning.
• The new development features high-tech gates for enhanced security.
• The gates of the old castle have stood for centuries and are a historic landmark.

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