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Vinony

gate

noun

  1. airport facility or equipment to facilitate passenger loading and unloading
  2. point of entry to an enclosed space
  3. rotating or sliding structure to control the flow of liquid
  4. equipment used to build logical circuits
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verb

  1. to confine
  2. to control using a gate
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɡeɪ̯t/ / /ˈɡæɪ̯t/ / [ˈɡæ̝ɪ̯t]

name

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

noun

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

  1. 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.”

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

  2. A journey.

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

  3. 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. Manner; gait.

verb

Etymology: 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.

  1. To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
  2. 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.”

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

  3. To open (a closed ion channel).
  4. To furnish with a gate.
  5. To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
  6. To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).

    “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.”