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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.

gate (plural gates)

A gate.

  1. A doorlike structure outside a house.
  2. A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
    Synonyms: doorway, entrance, passage
  3. A movable barrier.
    The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
  4. A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
  5. 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.
  6. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
  7. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
    Synonym: logic gate
  8. (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
  9. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
  10. (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
  11. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
  12. (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.
  13. (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
  1. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
  2. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
  3. An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
  1. (slang) A place where drugs are illegally sold.
  1. (dated, jive talk) A man; a male person.
    Synonyms: cat, dude, guy; see also Thesaurus:man
  1. (mining) A tunnel serving the coal face.
    Hyponyms: maingate, tailgate

door-like structure outside

doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall

computing: logical pathway

cricket: gap between a batsman the bat and his pad

money made by selling tickets for an event

in an air terminal

Translations to be checked

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, Oxbridge slang, dated or historical) To punish (a student) by not allowing to leave the college grounds.
    Synonym: ground
    • 1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night:
      You climbed the wall, for which you ought to be gated; and finally, you came in blotto, for which you ought to be sent down.
    • 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.

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.

    • 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.

  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.

  5. ^ Alberts, Bruce; et al. "Figure 11-21: The gating of ion channels." In: Molecular Biology of the Cell, ed. Senior, Sarah Gibbs. New York: Garland Science, 2002 [cited 18 December 2009]. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=mboc4&part=A1986&rendertype=figure&id=A2030.

gate

  1. plural of gat

gate

  1. head

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”).

gate

  1. (transitive) to spoil, to ruin, to wreck

Ultimately from Proto-North Halmahera *gate; compare Galela gate, Ternate gate.

gate

  1. the liver

From English gate.

gate

  1. gate
  2. entrance door

From French gâté (“pampered”).

gate

  1. darling, sweetheart
    Synonym: cheri

gate

  1. spoilt
  2. stale, expired

From French gâter.

gate (medial form gat)

  1. to spoil, ruin
    Synonyms: abime, rwine

From Old English ġeat (singular, which yielded the forms with initial /j/) and its plural gatu (which yielded the forms with initial /ɡ/), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą.

gate (plural gates or gaten or **gate)

  1. An entryway or entrance to a settlement or building; a gateway.
  2. 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) […]
  3. (figurative) A method or way of doing something or getting somewhere.
  4. (figurative) Any kind of entrance or entryway; e.g. a crossing through mountains.

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

gate (plural gates)

  1. A way, path or avenue; a trail or route.
  2. A voyage, adventure or leaving; one's course on the road.
  3. 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.

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

From Old Norse gata. Doublet of gote.

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

  1. a street

gāte

  1. genitive singular of gāt

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gate

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

gate m inan

  1. (aviation) boarding gate
    Synonym: bramka

Unadapted borrowing from English gate.

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

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 (as the seat of emotions)