gate

noun

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

   “At 7, he made his exit through the Ch‘ien-ch‘ing and the Lung-tsung gates, and thence, through the Yung-Hang Gate he entered the Tz‘u-ning Palace.”

3. A movable barrier.

   “The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.”

4. A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
5. A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.

   “Lyons and Fisher's stations, who have spared nothing to ensure a success on this point, there is every reason to believe that the Northern Territory will soon be able to make a proper use of her geographical position, and become the gate of the East for all the Australian colonies.”

6. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
7. A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
8. The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
9. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
10. The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
11. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
12. The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.

    “Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out.”

13. A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.

    “After all, not using film has advantages other than cost: the curse of getting a hair in the gate (the rectangular opening at the front of a camera) is gone; the problem of getting dirt on the film swept away.”

14. A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
15. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
16. An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.

    “It would encompass more than 500 acres and include a new theme park, several hotels, two mammoth parking garages with direct access from the freeway and a "third gate" — land set aside for future expansion.”

    “Disneyland opened its second gate – Disney's California Adventure. It was located exactly where Westcot would have been, directly across a central plaza from the Disneyland main gate.”

    “At Disneyland Paris, the much-delayed “second gate,” a Walt Disney Studios theme park, opened on March 16.”

    “For its part, Universal is also continuing to grow domestically, with its new second gate in Orlando – Volcano Bay – opening around the same time as Pandora.”

17. (slang)A place where drugs are illegally sold.

    “The gangs were fighting for control of "drug gates," control points for the sale of crack cocaine, heroin and marijuana.”

    “I put more guns in East Coast niggas' hands than East Coast niggas did when they came out here. I put them niggas on to more weed gates and weed spots and safe havens and safe spots than the East Coast did.”

    “The spatial mapping of Jamaica onto U.S. cities entails the erection of dance halls, reggae clubs, smoking yards or "weed gates," select storefront vendors of Rasta apparel, ritual paraphernalia, and ital ("natural" and approved) foods (Hepner 1998: 206).”

    “The very first dread I worked with, Dusty, had his gate at 55 Bowen.”

    “There's not a gate in the West Side area that lasts longer than a month other than the ones I service. Gates go up and come down just as fast.”

18. (dated)A man; a male person.

    “Whatcha gonna say there, gate?”

    “He said, "Come on, gates, and jump with me / At the June Teenth Jamboree."”

    “Louie wants you to get in there and lay yo' racket on that writin' machine so all the fine dinners and gates up in the land o' darkness will be hep and truck on down to this frolic pad 'cause the joint's really gonna be jumpin' and everythin' will be fine as wine like watermelon on the vine.”

19. A tunnel serving the coal face.
20. (Northern-England, Scotland)A way, path.

    “I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate.”

    “"Stand out o' my gate, wife, for, d'ye see, I am rather in a haste, Jean Linton."”

21. (obsolete)A journey.

    “[…] nought regarding, they kept on their gate, / And all her vaine allurements did forsake […]”

22. (Northern-England, Scotland)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".
23. (British, Scotland, archaic, dialectal)Manner; gait.
24. (abbreviation, acronym, uncountable)gifted and talented education

verb

1. (transitive)To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
2. (dated, historical, transitive)To punish (a student) by not allowing to leave the college grounds.

   “You climbed the wall, for which you ought to be gated; and finally, you came in blotto, for which you ought to be sent down.”

   ““I’ve missed two lectures already,” remarked Maurice, who was breakfasting in his pyjamas. “Cut them all — he’ll only gate you.””

   “Dons could ring the front bell and be admitted after that hour. But students who returned after midnight or who stayed out all night were fined heavily or “gated” – that is, forbidden to leave college for several days.”

3. (transitive)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).

   “Lillian walked the halls wearing a shirt plastered with what she assured everyone was a memetic stun agent; it looked just like the kill agent gating access to the SCP-001 database file, but as she patiently explained to McInnis, in art, context is everything.”

name

1. A ghost town in Scott County, Arkansas, United States.
2. A tiny town in Beaver County, Oklahoma, United States.
3. An unincorporated community in Thurston County, Washington, United States.