gate

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡeɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt
• Homophone: gait

Etymology 1

From Middle English gate, gat, ȝate, ȝeat, from Old English ġeat (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”).

See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.

Alternative forms

• yate (dialectal)

Noun

gate (plural gates)

2. A doorlike structure outside a house.
3. A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.

   Synonyms: doorway, entrance, passage
4. A movable barrier.

5. A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
6. A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
7. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
8. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.

   Synonym: logic gate

9. (electronics) 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. (metalworking) 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. (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.

14. (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
15. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
16. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
17. An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
18. (slang) A place where drugs are illegally sold.
19. (dated, jive talk) A man; a male person.

    Synonyms: cat, dude, guy; see also Thesaurus:man
20. (mining) A tunnel serving the coal face.

    Hyponyms: maingate, tailgate

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

gate (third-person singular simple present gates, present participle gating, simple past and past participle gated)

1. (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
2. (transitive) To punish (especially a child or teenager) by not allowing to go out.

   Synonym: ground
3. (transitive, biochemistry) To open (a closed ion channel).
4. (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
5. (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
6. (transitive) To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).

Derived terms

• gater

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ. Cognate with Danish gade, Swedish gata, German Gasse (“lane”). Doublet of gait.

Noun

gate (plural gates)

1. (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
2. (obsolete) A journey.
3. (Scotland, Northern England) 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".
4. (British, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.

References

Anagrams

• EGTA, ETag, Geat, e-tag, geat, geta

Afrikaans

Noun

gate

1. plural of gat

Anjam

Noun

gate

1. head

References

• Robert Rucker, Anjam Organised Phonology Data (2000), p. 2

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English gate.

Noun

gate m (plural gates, diminutive gatetje n)

1. airport gate

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English Watergate.

Noun

gate m (plural gates, diminutive gatetje n)

1. (in compounds) scandal

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French gâter (“to spoil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡate/

Verb

gate

1. spoil

Mauritian Creole

Etymology 1

From English gate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡeːt/

Noun

gate

1. gate
2. entrance door

Etymology 2

From French gâté (“pampered”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡate/

Noun

gate

1. darling, sweetheart

   Synonym: cheri

Adjective

gate

1. spoilt
2. stale, expired

Etymology 3

From French gâter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡate/

Verb

gate (medial form gat)

1. to spoil, ruin

   Synonyms: abime, rwine

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ġeat, ġet, gat, from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą.

Alternative forms

• gat, yeate, yate, ȝat, ȝæt, ȝeat, ȝate, ȝet, ȝhate
• cate (hapax, in place name)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaːt/, /ɡat/, /jɛt/, /jɛːt/, /jat/, /jaːt/

Noun

gate (plural gates or gaten or gate)

2. An entryway or entrance to a settlement or building; a gateway.
3. A gate (door barring an entrance or gap in a fence)
4. (figurative) A method or way of doing something or getting somewhere.
5. (figurative) Any kind of entrance or entryway; e.g. a crossing through mountains.

Derived terms

• flodegate
• Newgate

Descendants

• English: gate, yate
• Scots: yett, yet, ȝett, ȝet
• Yola: gaaute, gaat, yeat
• → Middle Irish: *geta
  • Irish: geata
  • Manx: giat
  • Scottish Gaelic: geata
• → Welsh: gât, giât, iet

References

• “gāte, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-12.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.

Alternative forms

• gat, gatt, gatte, gait

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːt(ə)/, /ˈɡat(ə)/

Noun

gate (plural gates)

2. A way, path or avenue; a trail or route.
3. A voyage, adventure or leaving; one's course on the road.
4. The way which one acts; one's mode of behaviour:
   1. A way or procedure for doing something; a method.
   2. A moral or religious path; the course of one's life.
   3. (Late Middle English) One's lifestyle or demeanour; the way one chooses to act.
   4. (Late Middle English) Gait; the way one walks.

Descendants

• English: gate, gait
• Scots: gate

References

• “gā̆te, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-12.

Nias

Noun

gate

1. mutated form of ate (“liver”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse gata.

Noun

gate f or m (definite singular gata or gaten, indefinite plural gater, definite plural gatene)

1. a street

Usage notes

• One of the nouns whose feminine form is predominant in formal writing.

Derived terms

References

• “gate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• gata
• gote, gota
• gatu, gato (dialectal)

Etymology

From Old Norse gata.

Noun

gate f (definite singular gata, indefinite plural gater, definite plural gatene)

1. a street

Derived terms

References

• “gate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑː.te/

Noun

gāte

1. genitive singular of gāt

Pali

Alternative forms

Adjective

gate

1. locative singular masculine/neuter & accusative plural masculine & vocative singular feminine of gata, which is past participle of gacchati (“to go”)

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from English gate.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡejt͡ʃ/

Noun

gate m (plural gates)

1. (electronics) gate (circuit that implements a logical operation)

   Synonym: (more common) porta

Etymology 2

Noun

gate m (plural gates)

1. (India) mountain

   Synonyms: monte, montanha

Etymology 3

Verb

gate

1. inflection of gatar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Scots

Alternative forms

• gait
• gjet (Shetland)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse gata.

Noun

gate (plural gates)

1. street, way, road, path

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

gate (Cyrillic spelling гате)

1. vocative singular of gat

Ternate

Etymology

From Proto-North Halmahera *gate ("liver"). Compare Tidore gate.

Noun

gate

1. liver
2. heart

Synonyms

• nyinga

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
• Gary Holton, Marian Klamer (2018) The Papuan languages of East Nusantara and the Bird's Head‎^[5]