Gate

English Meaning

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.

1. A structure that can be swung, drawn, or lowered to block an entrance or a passageway.
2. An opening in a wall or fence for entrance or exit.
3. The structure surrounding such an opening, such as the monumental or fortified entrance to a palace or walled city.
4. A means of access: the gate to riches.
5. A passageway, as in an airport terminal, through which passengers proceed when boarding or leaving an airplane.
6. A mountain pass.
7. The total paid attendance or admission receipts at a public event: a good gate at the football game.
8. A device for controlling the passage of water or gas through a dam or conduit.
9. The channel through which molten metal flows into a shaped cavity of a mold.
10. Sports A passage between two upright poles through which a skier must go in a slalom race.
11. A logic gate.
12. Chiefly British To confine (a student) to the grounds of a college as punishment.
13. Electronics To select part of (a wave) for transmission, reception, or processing by magnitude or time interval.
14. To furnish with a gate: "The entrance to the rear lawn was also gated” ( Dean Koontz).
15. get the gate Slang To be dismissed or rejected.
16. give (someone) the gate Slang To discharge from a job.
17. give (someone) the gate Slang To reject or jilt.
18. Chiefly British A particular way of acting or doing; manner.
19. Archaic A path or way.

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