gate

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A structure that can be swung, drawn, or lowered to block an entrance or a passageway.
2. n. An opening in a wall or fence for entrance or exit.
3. n. The structure surrounding such an opening, such as the monumental or fortified entrance to a palace or walled city.
4. n. A means of access: the gate to riches.
5. n. A passageway, as in an airport terminal, through which passengers proceed when boarding or leaving an airplane.
6. n. A mountain pass.
7. n. The total paid attendance or admission receipts at a public event: a good gate at the football game.
8. n. A device for controlling the passage of water or gas through a dam or conduit.
9. n. The channel through which molten metal flows into a shaped cavity of a mold.
10. n. Sports A passage between two upright poles through which a skier must go in a slalom race.
11. n. A logic gate.
12. v. Chiefly British To confine (a student) to the grounds of a college as punishment.
13. v. Electronics To select part of (a wave) for transmission, reception, or processing by magnitude or time interval.
14. v. To furnish with a gate: "The entrance to the rear lawn was also gated” ( Dean Koontz).
15. idiom. get the gate Slang To be dismissed or rejected.
16. idiom. give (someone) the gate Slang To discharge from a job.
17. idiom. give (someone) the gate Slang To reject or jilt.
18. n. Chiefly British A particular way of acting or doing; manner.
19. n. Archaic A path or way.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A passage or opening closed by a movable barrier (a door or gate in sense 3); a gateway: commonly used with reference to such barrier, and specifically for the entrance to a large inclosure or building, as a walled city, a fortification, a great church or palace, or other public monument.
2. n. Hence, any somewhat contracted or difficult means or avenue of approach or passage; a narrow opening or defile: as, the Iron Gates of the Danube.
3. n. A movable barrier consisting of a frame or solid structure of wood, iron, or other material, set on hinges or pivots in or at the end of a passage in order to close it. Specifically— A swinging frame, usually of openwork, closing a passage through an inclosing wall or fence: in this use distinguished from door, which is usually a solid frame closing a passage to a house or room.
4. n. The movable framework which shuts or opens a passage for water, as at the entrance to a dock or in a canal-lock.
5. n. In coal-mining, an underground road connecting a stall with a main road or inclined plane. Also called gate-road, gateway.
6. n. In founding:
7. n. One of various forms of channels or openings made in the sand or molds, through which the metal flows (pouring-gate), or by means of which access is had to it, either for skimming its surface (skimming-gate) or for other purposes.
8. n. The waste piece of metal cast in the gate.
9. n. A ridge in a casting which has to be sawn off.
10. n. In locksmithing, one of the apertures in the tumblers for the passage of the stub.
11. n. A sash or frame in which a saw is extended, to prevent buckling or bending.
12. To supply with a gate.
13. In the English universities of Oxford and Cambridge, to punish by a restriction on customary liberty. An undergraduate may be gated for a breach of college discipline either by having to be within his college-gates by a certain hour, or by being denied liberty to go beyond the gates.
14. n. A way; road; path; course.
15. n. Way; manner; mode of doing: used especially with all, this, thus, other, no, etc., in adverbial phrases.
16. n. In particular Way or manner of walking; walk; carriage. [In this use now spelled gait, and usually associated (erroneously) with the verb go. See the etymology, and gait.] Movement on a course or way; progress; procession; journey; expedition.
17. n. Room or opportunity for going forward; space to move in.
18. To go.
19. n. An archaic or dialectal form of goat.
20. To place (a warp) in a loom ready for weaving.
21. To put (a machine, as a loom) in order to do its work properly.

Wiktionary

1. n. A doorlike structure outside a house.
2. n. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
3. n. Movable barrier.
4. n. A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand etc.
5. n. The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
6. n. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
7. n. A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
8. n. passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
9. n. A way, path.
10. n. A journey.
11. n. A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street.
12. v. To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
13. v. To ground someone.
14. v. 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.
15. v. spoil

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.
2. n. An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.
3. n. A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
4. n. The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
5. n. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
6. n. The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.
7. n. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.
8. v. To supply with a gate.
9. v. To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.
10. n. A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).
11. n. Manner; gait.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
2. v. supply with a gate
3. n. a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
4. n. total admission receipts at a sports event
5. n. passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
6. n. a movable barrier in a fence or wall
7. v. restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment