• IPA: /ɡeɪt/

gate (plural gates)

1. A doorlike structure outside a house.
2. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
3. Movable barrier.

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

4. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
5. (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.

6. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
7. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
8. Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
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. (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
14. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.

• (computing) logic gate
• (opening in a wall) doorway, entrance, passage

• French: portail, porte
• German: Tor
• Italian: cancello
• Portuguese: portão
• Russian: воро́та
• Spanish: puerta, portón

• French: porte
• German: Tor
• Italian: cancello
• Portuguese: portão
• Spanish: puerta

• German: Schlagbaum, Schranke
• Spanish: barrera

• French: porte logique
• Spanish: compuerta

• French: porte
• German: Flugsteig, Gate
• Portuguese: porta
• Russian: воро́та
• Spanish: puerta

• French: grille
• Spanish: puerta

gate (gates, present participle gating; past and past participle gated)

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

   Synonyms: ground

   • 1971, E. M. Forster, Maurice (novel), Penguin, 1972, Chapter 13, p. 72,

     “I’ve missed two lectures already,” remarked Maurice, who was breakfasting in his pyjamas.

     “Cut them all — he’ll only gate you.”

3. (biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.
4. (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
5. (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.

gate (plural gates)

1. (now, Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
   • 1818 July 24, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, [...] In Four Volumes (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed [by James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, OCLC 819902302 ↗:

2. (obsolete) A journey.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book II, canto XII:

     {...}} 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. (Britain, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.

1. A ghost town in Scott County, Arkansas.
2. A tiny town in Beaver County, Oklahoma.
3. An unincorporated community in Thurston County, Washington.

gate (uncountable)

1. (education, initialism) gifted and talented education