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(door-like structure outside)A doorlike structure outside a house.

A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.

📑 Synonyms: doorway entrance passage

A movable barrier.

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

A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.

The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.

(computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are ''and'', ''or'', ''nand'', etc.

📑 Synonyms: logic gate

(electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.

(metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.

The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.

(cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.

(cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.

(flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.

A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.

An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.

(slang) A place where drugs are illegally sold.

(jive talk) A man; a male person.

📑 Synonyms: cat dude guy Thesaurus:man

(mining) A tunnel serving the coal face.

To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.

To punish (especially a child or teenager) by not allowing to go out.

📑 Synonyms: ground

(biochemistry) To open (a closed ion channel).Alberts, Bruce; et al. "Figure 11-21: The gating of ion channels." In: ''Molecular Biology of the Cell'', ed. Senior, Sarah Gibbs. New York: Garland Science, 2002 [cited 18 December 2009]. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=mboc4&part=A1986&rendertype=figure&id=A2030.

To furnish with a gate.

To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See (autogating).

To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).

(Northern England) A way, path.

(obsolete) A journey.

(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".

(archaic) Manner; gait.