gate

Significado (English)

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.

Verb

1. To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
2. To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
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.

Conceptos

puerta

🚪

verja

portón

entrada

portal

compuerta

portalón

portillo

puerta de enlace

paso

puesto

rico

🤑

vano

portilla

barrera

Synonyms

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

G

large door

main gate

wicket gate

gate circuit

geat

hilus

ingate

flow passage

guard post

vortex gate

damping screen

honeycomb screen

hinged flash gate

anchor gate

gating waveform

strobotron circuit

draw-gate

aperture

yett

approach

arch

attendance

bars

brake

cage

cascade

checkpoint

chops

courtyard

crossing

cubicle

drive

driveway

enclosure

entrance door

fastener

garage door

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɡeɪt/

Etimología (English)

Inherited from inglés medio: gate

Inherited from inglés antiguo: ġeat

Cognate with nórdico antiguo: gat

Cognate with sueco: -

Cognate with neerlandés: gat

Cognate with bajo alemán: Gaat

Cognate with danés: gade

Cognate with sueco: gata

Cognate with alemán: 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.

Oraciones

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

Se volvió de la puerta y caminó lentamente hacia la puerta , todavía sosteniendo las llaves en su mano.