gate

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A doorlike structure outside a house.
2. A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
3. A movable barrier.
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.
6. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
7. A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
8. 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. The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
11. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
12. The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
13. A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
14. A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
15. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
16. An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
17. (slang) A place where drugs are illegally sold.
18. (dated) A man; a male person.
19. A tunnel serving the coal face.

Verb

1. (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
2. (transitive) To punish (especially a child or teenager) by not allowing to go out.
3. (transitive) 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 from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
6. (transitive) To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).

Sinonieme

door

🚪

entrance

gateway

portal

doorway

opening

barrier

entry

logic gate

goal

mouth

wicket

port

gates

pass

point of entry

floodgate

porta

exit

garden gate

git

grating

grid

grill

guardhouse

hilum

honeycomb

jaw

ledge

logic element

main entrance

mesh

outside

passage

phylum

platform

post

railing

room

runner

🏃

sprue

station

🚉

switch

valve

wall

window

🪟

yard

G

large door

main gate

Vertalings

porte

🚪

puerta

🚪

Tor

portão

porta

poort

kapı

🚪

porta

🚪

Pforte

cancello

portail

porta

Tür

🚪

deur

🚪

πύλη

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ɡeɪt/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: gate

Geërf van Old English: ġeat

Verwante met Old Norse: gat

Verwante met Sweeds: -

Verwante met Nederlands: gat

Verwante met Nederduits: Gaat

Verwante met Deens: gade

Verwante met Sweeds: gata

Verwante met Duits: Gasse

In summary

From Middle English gate, gat, ȝate, ȝeat, from Old English ġeat (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”).
See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.

Sinne

He turned from the door and walked slowly toward the gate , still holding the keys in his hand .