Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A path or way.
- noun A particular way of acting or doing; manner.
- noun A structure that can be swung, drawn, or lowered to block an entrance or a passageway.
- noun An opening in a wall or fence for entrance or exit.
- noun The structure surrounding such an opening, such as the monumental or fortified entrance to a palace or walled city.
- noun A means of access.
- noun A passageway, as in an airport terminal, through which passengers proceed when boarding or leaving an airplane.
- noun A mountain pass.
- noun The total paid attendance or admission receipts at a public event.
- noun A device for controlling the passage of water or gas through a dam or conduit.
- noun The channel through which molten metal flows into a shaped cavity of a mold.
- noun Sports A passage between two upright poles through which a skier must go in a slalom race.
- noun A logic gate.
- transitive verb Chiefly British To confine (a student) to the grounds of a college as punishment.
- transitive verb Electronics To select part of (a wave) for transmission, reception, or processing by magnitude or time interval.
- transitive verb To furnish with a gate.
- idiom (get the gate) To be dismissed or rejected.
- idiom (give (someone) the gate) To discharge from a job.
- idiom (give (someone) the gate) To reject or jilt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To supply with a gate.
- In the English universities of Oxford and Cambridge, to punish by a restriction on customary liberty.
- To go.
- noun An archaic or dialectal form of
goat . - noun A passage or opening closed by a movable barrier (a door or gate in sense 3); a gateway: commonly used with reference to such barrier, and specifically for the entrance to a large inclosure or building, as a walled city, a fortification, a great church or palace, or other public monument.
- noun Hence, any somewhat contracted or difficult means or avenue of approach or passage; a narrow opening or defile: as, the Iron Gates of the Danube.
- noun A movable barrier consisting of a frame or solid structure of wood, iron, or other material, set on hinges or pivots in or at the end of a passage in order to close it.
- noun The movable framework which shuts or opens a passage for water, as at the entrance to a dock or in a canal-lock.
- noun In coal-mining, an underground road connecting a stall with a main road or inclined plane. Also called gate-road, gateway.
- noun In founding:
- noun One of various forms of channels or openings made in the sand or molds, through which the metal flows (pouring-gate), or by means of which access is had to it, either for skimming its surface (skimming-gate) or for other purposes.
- noun The waste piece of metal cast in the gate.
- noun A ridge in a casting which has to be sawn off.
- noun In locksmithing, one of the apertures in the tumblers for the passage of the stub.
- noun A sash or frame in which a saw is extended, to prevent buckling or bending.
- noun A way; road; path; course.
- noun Way; manner; mode of doing: used especially with all, this, thus, other, no, etc., in adverbial phrases.
- noun In particular Way or manner of walking; walk; carriage. [In this use now spelled
gait , and usually associated (erroneously) with the verb go. See the etymology, and gait.] Movement on a course or way; progress; procession; journey; expedition. - noun Room or opportunity for going forward; space to move in.
- To place (a warp) in a loom ready for weaving.
- To put (a machine, as a loom) in order to do its work properly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To supply with a gate.
- transitive verb (Eng. Univ.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.
- noun O. Eng. & Scot. A way; a path; a road; a street (as in High
gate ). - noun O. Eng. & Scot. Manner; gait.
- noun A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.
- noun An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.
- noun A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
- noun (Script.) The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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TREMAYNE _enters from_ L. _and with his back to the audience tries latch of imaginary gate below scenic painted gateway_ L. BEL.NDA _turns her head, hearing imaginary click of the garden gate_ L. _She comes slowly back_ R.C.)
Belinda 1919
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Outside the main gate is a new statue of Barbaro, with his ashes interred in the base.
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They find the same holy consternation upon themselves that Jacob did at his consecrated Bethel, which he called the gate of heaven; and if such places are so, then surely a daily expectation at the gate is the readiest way to gain admittance into the house.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823
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This gate is the entrance to the cathedral in Guadalupe, which dates back to the early 1700s.
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Iron Man-Safe Bet-Being the first film out of the gate is a BIG advantage and I really don't see Speed Racer doing terrific B.O. numbers to be too much of a threat.
EW's Wacky Summer Box Office Predictions « FirstShowing.net 2008
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It's the first year we became public, and our first campaign out of the gate is to be associated with the values that go with the Olympics.
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First out of the gate is the very finest, Andrei Konchalovsky's Siberiade.
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Tucker's first effort out of the gate is a clear winner ... a literary sensation.
The Song Reader: Summary and book reviews of The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker. 2003
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And no doubt Plutarco imitated his rival too: just inside the gate is a series of stepping stones in the shape of bare feet.
Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico 2000
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And no doubt Plutarco imitated his rival too: just inside the gate is a series of stepping stones in the shape of bare feet.
Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico 2000
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One said simply “OBAMAGATE!” (the suffix “gate” is a frequently used play on the Watergate scandal that toppled President Richard Nixon).
What is 'Obamagate' and why is Trump so worked up about it? David Smith 2020
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There’s a term for airplane passengers who push ahead and clog the front of the boarding area long before their group is called: gate lice.
The Rudest Things You Can Do At The Airport Caroline Bologna 2020
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The rabble holding cheap tickets who board last are most affected, but even jet-setters with elite status seem to worry about bag space; they hover in front of gates hoping to board as soon as possible—“gate lice,” they’re sometimes called.
The Carry-On-Baggage Bubble Is About to Pop Ian Bogost 2024
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Paifang 牌坊 or pailou 牌樓, commonly called Chinatown gates, gateways or friendship arches, are rooted in sacred Buddhist architecture.
What's in a Gateway? - Urban Omnibus Kerri Culhane, Yin Kong 2024
oroboros commented on the word gate
Contronymic in the sense: obstacle (gate out) vs. allowance in.
January 27, 2007
brobbins commented on the word gate
passage from one Sephira to another, links between sephriot
July 22, 2009
bilby commented on the word gate
See also yett.
January 25, 2016
vendingmachine commented on the word gate
n. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.
March 16, 2016