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

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

1. 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. 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. A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
4. the places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
5. in a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
6.
7. the channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.
8. the waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.
9. A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).
10. manner; gait.
11. to supply with a gate.
12. to punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.
13.

1. to supply with a gate.
2. in the english universities of oxford and cambridge, to punish by a restriction on customary liberty.
3. to go.
4. to place (a warp) in a loom ready for weaving.
5. to put (a machine, as a loom) in order to do its work properly.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. the movable framework which shuts or opens a passage for water, as at the entrance to a dock or in a canal-lock.
10. in coal-mining, an underground road connecting a stall with a main road or inclined plane. also called gate-road, gateway.
11. in founding:
12. 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.
13. the waste piece of metal cast in the gate.
14. A ridge in a casting which has to be sawn off.
15. in locksmithing, one of the apertures in the tumblers for the passage of the stub.
16. A sash or frame in which a saw is extended, to prevent buckling or bending.
17. A way; road; path; course.
18. way; manner; mode of doing: used especially with all, this, thus, other, no, etc., in adverbial phrases.
19. 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.
20. room or opportunity for going forward; space to move in.
21. an archaic or dialectal form of goat.

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