gate

noun23

1. •
   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. — 1870
2. •
   A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
3. •
   a kind of door outside a house that leads into a garden or yard
4. •
   A movable barrier.

   • The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
5. •
   The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
6. •
   A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
7. •
   A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
8. •
   An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.

   • 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. — 2006
9. •
   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.
10. •
    The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
11. •
    (slang) 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. — 1996
12. •
    (Scotland, Northern-England) A way, path.

    • 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. — 1818
13. •
    (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”.
14. •
    A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
15. •
    A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
16. •
    In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
17. •
    A tunnel serving the coal face.
18. •
    (old-fashioned) A man; a male person.

    • Whatcha gonna say there, gate? — 1939
19. •
    The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
20. •
    The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
21. •
    A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
22. •
    (no longer used) A journey.

    • […] nought regarding, they kept on their gate, / And all her vaine allurements did forsake […] — 1590
23. •
    (dialect, no longer used) Manner; gait.

verb6

1. •
   To furnish with a gate.
2. •
   To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
3. •
   To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).

   • Access to the building is gated by a security system.
4. •
   To open (a closed ion channel).
5. •
   To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
6. •
   (old-fashioned, historical) To punish (a student) by not allowing to leave the college grounds.

   • 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. — 1935

noun1

1. •
   gifted and talented education

noun1

1. •
   (informal) A scandal.