gate

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡeɪt/ Rhymes: -eɪt Homophone: gait === Etymology 1 === From Middle English gate, gat, ȝate, ȝeat, from Old English gat (“gate”, variant of ġeat), 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) A doorlike structure outside a house. A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall. Synonyms: doorway, entrance, passage A movable barrier. A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark. A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc. Synonym: logic gate (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET). In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into. (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git. (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad. (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five. An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks. (slang) A place where drugs are illegally sold. (dated, jive talk) A man; a male person. Synonyms: cat, dude, guy; see also Thesaurus:man (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) (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate. (transitive, Oxbridge slang, dated or historical) To punish (a student) by not allowing to leave the college grounds. Synonym: ground (transitive, biochemistry) To open (a closed ion channel). (transitive) To furnish with a gate. (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating. (transitive) To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something). ===== Derived terms ===== gate off 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) (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path. (obsolete) A journey. (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". (British, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait. === References === === Anagrams === EGTA, ETag, Geat, e-tag, geat, geta == Afrikaans == === Noun === gate plural of gat == Anjam == === Noun === gate 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) airport gate === Etymology 2 === Borrowed from English Watergate. ==== Noun ==== gate m (plural gates, diminutive gatetje n) (in compounds) scandal == Haitian Creole == === Etymology === From French gâter (“to spoil”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡate/ === Verb === gate (transitive) to spoil, to ruin, to wreck === References === Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎[5], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 74 == Loloda == === Etymology === Ultimately from Proto-North Halmahera *gate; compare Galela gate, Ternate gate. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡa.te/ === Noun === gate the liver === References === M. J. van Baarda (1904), Het Lòda'sch, in vergelijking met het Galėla'sch dialect op Halmaheira == Mauritian Creole == === Etymology 1 === From English gate. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ɡeːt/ ==== Noun ==== gate gate entrance door === Etymology 2 === From French gâté (“pampered”). ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ɡate/ ==== Noun ==== gate darling, sweetheart Synonym: cheri ==== Adjective ==== gate spoilt stale, expired === Etymology 3 === From French gâter. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ɡate/ ==== Verb ==== gate (medial form gat) 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, ȝhat, ȝhate cate (hapax, in place name) ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ɡaːt/, /ɡat/, /jɛt/, /jɛːt/, /jat/, /jaːt/ ==== Noun ==== gate (plural gates or gaten or gate) An entryway or entrance to a settlement or building; a gateway. A gate (door barring an entrance or gap in a fence) (figurative) A method or way of doing something or getting somewhere. (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, iet, gât, giât ===== References ===== “gāte, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018. === 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) A way, path or avenue; a trail or route. A voyage, adventure or leaving; one's course on the road. The way which one acts; one's mode of behaviour: A way or procedure for doing something; a method. A moral or religious path; the course of one's life. (Late Middle English) One's lifestyle or demeanour; the way one chooses to act. (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 12 June 2018. == Nias == === Noun === gate 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) 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, gatu, gato (dialectal) === Etymology === From Old Norse gata. Doublet of gote. === Noun === gate f (definite singular gata, indefinite plural gater, definite plural gatene) a street ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “gate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. == Old English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡɑː.te/ === Noun === gāte genitive singular of gāt == Pali == === Alternative forms === === Adjective === gate locative singular masculine/neuter & accusative plural masculine & vocative singular feminine of gata, which is past participle of gacchati (“to go”) == Polish == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English gate. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡɛjt/ Rhymes: -ɛjt Syllabification: gate === Noun === gate m inan (aviation) boarding gate Synonym: bramka ==== Declension ==== == Portuguese == === Etymology 1 === Unadapted borrowing from English gate. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɡejt͡ʃ/ ==== Noun ==== gate m (plural gates) (electronics) gate (circuit that implements a logical operation) Synonym: (more common) porta === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== gate m (plural gates) (India) mountain Synonyms: monte, montanha === Etymology 3 === ==== Verb ==== gate inflection of gatar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative === Further reading === “gate”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 == Scots == === Alternative forms === gaet, gait gjet (Shetland) === Etymology === Borrowed from Old Norse gata. === Noun === gate (plural gates) street, way, road, path == Serbo-Croatian == === Noun === gate (Cyrillic spelling гате) vocative singular of gat == Ternate == === Etymology === From Proto-North Halmahera *gate (“liver”). Compare Tidore gate. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡa.te/ === Noun === gate liver heart (as the seat of emotions) ==== Synonyms ==== nyinga === References === Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh