Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word GATE

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Definitions of GATE

1. A doorlike structure outside a house.
2. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
3. Movable barrier.
4. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
5. Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
6. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
7. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
8. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
9. A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
10. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
11. (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
12. (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
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. (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
17. (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
18. (transitive, biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.
19. (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
20. (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
21. (now, Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
22. (obsolete) A journey.
23. (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".
24. (Britain, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.
25. A ghost town in Scott County, Arkansas, USA.
26. A tiny town in Beaver County, Oklahoma, USA.
27. A unincorporated community in Thurston County, Washington, USA.
28. (education, initialism) gifted and talented education

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