GATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gate mean? 

• GATE (noun)
  The noun GATE has 4 senses:

1. a movable barrier in a fence or wall

2. a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs

3. total admission receipts at a sports event

4. passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark

  Familiarity information: GATE used as a noun is uncommon.

• GATE (verb)
  The verb GATE has 3 senses:

1. supply with a gate

2. control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate

3. restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment

  Familiarity information: GATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A movable barrier in a fence or wall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("gate" is a kind of...):

movable barrier (a barrier that can be moved to allow passage)

Meronyms (parts of "gate"):

flexible joint; hinge (a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other)

lock (a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gate"):

lock-gate (a gate that can be locked)

wicket; wicket door; wicket gate (small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door))

turnstile (a gate consisting of a post that acts as a pivot for rotating arms; set in a passageway for controlling the persons entering)

turnpike ((from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid)

tollbar; tollgate (a gate or bar across a toll bridge or toll road which is lifted when the toll is paid)

tail gate (a gate downstream from a lock or canal that is used to control the flow of water at the lower end)

tailboard; tailgate (a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading)

postern (a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle)

portcullis (gate consisting of an iron or wooden grating that hangs in the entry to a castle or fortified town; can be lowered to prevent passage)

lichgate; lychgate (a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used as a temporary shelter for the bier during funerals)

head gate (a gate upstream from a lock or canal that is used to control the flow of water at the upper end)

Instance hyponyms:

Dipylon; Dipylon gate (a gateway to the west of ancient Athens near which a distinctive style of pottery has been found)

Derivation:

gate (supply with a gate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

gate; logic gate

Hypernyms ("gate" is a kind of...):

computer circuit (a circuit that is part of a computer)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gate"):

AND circuit; AND gate (a circuit in a computer that fires only when all of its inputs fire)

NAND circuit; NAND gate (a logic gate that produces an output that is the inverse of the output of an AND gate)

OR circuit; OR gate (a gate circuit in a computer that fires when any of its inputs fire)

X-OR circuit; XOR circuit; XOR gate (gate for exclusive OR; a circuit in a computer that fires only if only one of its inputs fire)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Total admission receipts at a sports event

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("gate" is a kind of...):

gross; receipts; revenue (the entire amount of income before any deductions are made)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("gate" is a kind of...):

passageway (a passage between rooms or between buildings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gate"):

arrival gate (gate where passengers disembark)

departure gate (gate where passengers embark)

Holonyms ("gate" is a part of...):

air terminal; airport terminal (a terminal that serves air travelers or air freight)

• GATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they gate    ... he / she / it gates   
Past simple: gated   
Past participle: gated   
-ing form: gating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Supply with a gate

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

The house was gated

Hypernyms (to "gate" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Domain category:

architecture (the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

gate (a movable barrier in a fence or wall)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "gate" is one way to...):

control; operate (handle and cause to function)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "gate" is one way to...):

bound; confine; limit; restrict; throttle; trammel (place limits on (extent or amount or access))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

But when he came to the gate the guards said he was not the true prince, and that he too must go away about his business; and away he went.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I am glad to recollect that when the carrier began to move, my mother ran out at the gate, and called to him to stop, that she might kiss me once more.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Time and again and many times he ranged the horse up to the gate in the effort to close it and each time the horse became frightened and backed and plunged away.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In the end, an estimated one-to-two hundred people showed up at the gates, and the classified area was not stormed.

(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)

Lo and behold, first thing out of the gate on the other side, we make another fundamental discovery.

(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)

Neuroglia have high-affinity transmitter uptake systems, voltage-dependent and transmitter-gated ion channels, and can release transmitters, but their role in signaling (as in many other functions) is unclear.

(Glial cell, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Imaged ventricular blood pool capacity within the endocardial surface in a gated scan during the time of systole.

(End Systolic Volume Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)

All walked quietly through the garden, out at the little back gate, and began to climb the hill that lay between the house and river.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The zareba rose before me, even as I had left it, but the gate was open.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A constable met us at the garden gate.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)