gate

A2
US /ɡeɪt/
verb noun Freq #1833

Meanings

  1. 1
    verb

    supply with a gate

    The house was gated

  2. 2
    noun

    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. 3
    noun

    A movable barrier.

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

  4. 4
    noun

    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.

  5. 5
    noun

    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.

  6. 6
    noun

    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.

  7. 7
    noun

    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.

  8. 8
    noun

    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.

Etymology

From Middle English gate (the forms ȝate and ȝeat yielded the dialectal doublet yate), from the plural of Old English ġeat (specifically gatu), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”). See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.

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Thesaurus

Synonyms
2 noun · a doorway, opening, or... doorwayentrancepassage
Word family
Derived forms agatealdgatealgateambergatebackgatebeast-gatebishopsgateburragatechurchgateclergatecorpse-gatedegate
Related forms gates

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