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  • adjective Resembling a gate or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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gate +‎ -like

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Examples

  • As they approached, Vin saw a pair of guards standing by an ornate, gatelike door.

    Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006

  • The architect collaborated with Oldenburg and his wife Coosje van Bruggen on the Chiat/Day Building of 1985 – 1991 in Venice, California, where the artists 'contribution was a sculpture of superscale binoculars upended to form a gatelike entry.

    The Bird Man Filler, Martin 2005

  • Leather hides covered the frame on the outside, but the entrance flap he had seen from inside was barred on the outside with a gatelike closure that could be secured shut with lashings.

    The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

  • Familiarity also plagues the spare junk sculptures and gatelike structures of welded steel lacquered in shades of blue, red or white, which conjure shifting aggregates of the work of Anthony Caro, John Chamberlain, David Smith and Jim Dine.

    NYT > Home Page By ROBERTA SMITH 2011

  • He was last seen being swept into a concrete weir, a gatelike structure, in the river.

    Bakersfield.com Latest news 2010

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