gate

• IPA^(key): /ɡeɪt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪt
• Homophone: gait

From Middle English gate, gat, ȝate, ȝeat, from Old English ġeat (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”).

See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.

• yate (dialectal)

gate (plural gates)

2. A doorlike structure outside a house.
3. A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.

   Synonyms: doorway, entrance, passage

   • 1870 June [1870 April], “The Peking Gazettes”, in Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal‎^[1], volume 3, number 1, Foochow: American Presbyterian Mission Press, →OCLC, page 12, column 1:

     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.

4. A movable barrier.

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

5. A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
6. A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 246:

     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.

7. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
8. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.

   Synonym: logic gate

9. (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
10. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
11. (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
12. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
13. (cricket) 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.

14. (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
    • 2023 March 16, John Boorman, “Today’s ‘films’ are nothing of the sort – so stop calling them that”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

      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.

15. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
16. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
17. An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
    • 1993 05, Rich Mannino, “The World According to Disney”, in Orange Coast Magazine, page 83:

      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.

    • 2006 August 1, Shaun Finnie, The Disneylands That Never Were, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 168:

      Disneyland opened its second gate – Disney's California Adventure. It was located exactly where Westcot would have been, directly across a central plaza from the Disneyland main gate.

    • 2008 December 9, James B. Stewart, Disneywar: The Battle for the Magic Kingdom, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

      At Disneyland Paris, the much-delayed “second gate,” a Walt Disney Studios theme park, opened on March 16.

    • 2018 April 16, John Reynolds, Cambridge IGCSE First Language English 4th edition, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

      For its part, Universal is also continuing to grow domestically, with its new second gate in Orlando – Volcano Bay – opening around the same time as Pandora.

18. (slang) A place where drugs are illegally sold.
    • 1996 April 24, “Connecticut: Task Force Successful In Curbing Street Gangs”, in Organized Crime Digest, volume 17, number 9, Annandale, V.A.: Washington Crime News Service, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:

      The gangs were fighting for control of "drug gates," control points for the sale of crack cocaine, heroin and marijuana.

    • 1996 June, Tupac Shakur, quotee, “Inside the Mind of Shakur”, in Tupac Shakur, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 101:

      I put more guns in East Coast niggas' hands than East Coast niggas did when they came out here. I put them niggas on to more weed gates and weed spots and safe havens and safe spots than the East Coast did.

    • 2007, Paul Christopher Johnson, Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa, Berkeley, C.A. […]: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 56:

      The spatial mapping of Jamaica onto U.S. cities entails the erection of dance halls, reggae clubs, smoking yards or "weed gates," select storefront vendors of Rasta apparel, ritual paraphernalia, and ital ("natural" and approved) foods (Hepner 1998: 206).

    • 2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into The Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 69:

      The very first dread I worked with, Dusty, had his gate at 55 Bowen.

    • 2018, Robert Ricks, Fast Furious & Fatherless: An Urban Tale, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu Publishing Services, →ISBN, page 244:

      There's not a gate in the West Side area that lasts longer than a month other than the ones I service. Gates go up and come down just as fast.

19. (dated, jive talk) A man; a male person.

    Synonyms: cat, dude, guy; see also Thesaurus:man

    • 1939, Cab Calloway, Frank Froeba, Jack Palmer (lyrics and music), “Jumpin' Jive”:

      Whatcha gonna say there, gate?

    • 1940, Louis Jordan (lyrics and music), “June Teenth Jamboree”, performed by Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five:

      He said, "Come on, gates, and jump with me / At the June Teenth Jamboree."

    • 1944 December 8, “Broadway Jam Session”, in The Tampa Times:

      Louie wants you to get in there and lay yo' racket on that writin' machine so all the fine dinners and gates up in the land o' darkness will be hep and truck on down to this frolic pad 'cause the joint's really gonna be jumpin' and everythin' will be fine as wine like watermelon on the vine.

gate (third-person singular simple present gates, present participle gating, simple past and past participle gated)

1. (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
2. (transitive) To punish (especially a child or teenager) by not allowing to go out.

   Synonym: ground

   • 1971, E. M. Forster, chapter 13, in Maurice‎^[3], Penguin, published 1972, page 72:

     “I’ve missed two lectures already,” remarked Maurice, who was breakfasting in his pyjamas.
     “Cut them all — he’ll only gate you.”

   • 2010, Thomas J. Schaeper, Kathleen Schaeper, “Yanks and Brits”, in Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite, New York, NY: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 52:

     Dons could ring the front bell and be admitted after that hour. But students who returned after midnight or who stayed out all night were fined heavily or “gated” – that is, forbidden to leave college for several days.

3. (transitive, biochemistry) To open (a closed ion channel).^[1]
4. (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
5. (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
6. (transitive) To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).
   • 2024 September 28, HarryBlank, “Not Ready for Prime Time”, in SCP Foundation‎^[4], archived from the original on 2 October 2024:

     Lillian walked the halls wearing a shirt plastered with what she assured everyone was a memetic stun agent; it looked just like the kill agent gating access to the SCP-001 database file, but as she patiently explained to McInnis, in art, context is everything.

• gater

Borrowed from Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ. Cognate with Danish gade, Swedish gata, German Gasse (“lane”). Doublet of gait.

gate (plural gates)

1. (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
   • 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:

     I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate.

   • 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet:

     "Stand out o' my gate, wife, for, d'ye see, I am rather in a haste, Jean Linton."

2. (obsolete) A journey.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     […] nought regarding, they kept on their gate, / And all her vaine allurements did forsake […]

3. (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".
4. (British, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.

• EGTA, ETag, Geat, e-tag, geat, geta

gate

1. plural of gat

gate

1. head

• Robert Rucker, Anjam Organised Phonology Data (2000), p. 2

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Borrowed from English gate.

gate m (plural gates, diminutive gatetje n)

1. airport gate

Borrowed from English Watergate.

gate m (plural gates, diminutive gatetje n)

1. (in compounds) scandal

From French gâter (“to spoil”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡate/

gate

1. spoil

From English gate.

• IPA^(key): /ɡeːt/

gate

1. gate
2. entrance door

From French gâté (“pampered”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡate/

gate

1. darling, sweetheart

   Synonym: cheri

gate

1. spoilt
2. stale, expired

From French gâter.

• IPA^(key): /ɡate/

gate (medial form gat)

1. to spoil, ruin

   Synonyms: abime, rwine

From Old English ġeat, ġet, gat, from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą.

• gat, yeate, yate, ȝat, ȝæt, ȝeat, ȝate, ȝet, ȝhate
• cate (hapax, in place name)

• IPA^(key): /ɡaːt/, /ɡat/, /jɛt/, /jɛːt/, /jat/, /jaːt/

gate (plural gates or gaten or gate)

2. An entryway or entrance to a settlement or building; a gateway.
3. A gate (door barring an entrance or gap in a fence)
   • a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “2 Paralipomenon 6:28”, in Wycliffe's Bible:

     If hungur riſiþ in þe lond and peſtilence and ruſt and wynd diſtriynge cornes and a locuste and bꝛuke comeþ and if enemyes biſegen þe ȝatis of þe citee aftir þat þe cuntreis ben diſtried and al veniaunce and ſikenesse oppꝛeſſiþ […]

     If hunger rises in the land, and pestilence, rust, wind, destroying grain, and locusts and their young come, and if enemies besiege a city's gates after the city's surrounds are ruined, and when any destruction and disease oppresses (people) […]

4. (figurative) A method or way of doing something or getting somewhere.
5. (figurative) Any kind of entrance or entryway; e.g. a crossing through mountains.

• flodegate
• Newgate

• 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

• “gāte, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-12.

From Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.

• gat, gatt, gatte, gait

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːt(ə)/, /ˈɡat(ə)/

gate (plural gates)

2. A way, path or avenue; a trail or route.
3. A voyage, adventure or leaving; one's course on the road.
4. The way which one acts; one's mode of behaviour:
   1. A way or procedure for doing something; a method.
   2. A moral or religious path; the course of one's life.
   3. (Late Middle English) One's lifestyle or demeanour; the way one chooses to act.
   4. (Late Middle English) Gait; the way one walks.

• English: gate, gait
• Scots: gate

• “gā̆te, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-12.

gate

1. mutated form of ate (“liver”)

From Old Norse gata.

gate f or m (definite singular gata or gaten, indefinite plural gater, definite plural gatene)

1. a street

• One of the nouns whose feminine form is predominant in formal writing.

• “gate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• gata
• gote, gota
• gatu, gato (dialectal)

From Old Norse gata.

gate f (definite singular gata, indefinite plural gater, definite plural gatene)

1. a street

• “gate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑː.te/

gāte

1. genitive singular of gāt

gate

1. locative singular masculine/neuter & accusative plural masculine & vocative singular feminine of gata, which is past participle of gacchati (“to go”)

Unadapted borrowing from English gate.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡejt͡ʃ/

gate m (plural gates)

1. (electronics) gate (circuit that implements a logical operation)

   Synonym: (more common) porta

gate m (plural gates)

1. (India) mountain

   Synonyms: monte, montanha

gate

1. inflection of gatar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• gait
• gjet (Shetland)

Borrowed from Old Norse gata.

gate (plural gates)

1. street, way, road, path

gate (Cyrillic spelling гате)

1. vocative singular of gat

From Proto-North Halmahera *gate ("liver"). Compare Tidore gate.

gate

1. liver
2. heart

• nyinga

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
• Gary Holton, Marian Klamer (2018) The Papuan languages of East Nusantara and the Bird's Head‎^[5]