gate
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.Synonyms: logic gate
2. (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
3. (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
4. (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.Examples: "Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out."
5. (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.Examples: "After all, not using film has advantages other than cost: the curse of getting a hair in the gate (the rectangular opening at the front of a camera) is gone; the problem of getting dirt on the film swept away."
6. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.transitive
2. (transitive) To punish (especially a child or teenager) by not allowing to go out.Examples: "“I’ve missed two lectures already,” remarked Maurice, who was breakfasting in his pyjamas. “Cut them all — he’ll only gate you.”"; "Dons could ring the front bell and be admitted after that hour. But students who returned after midnight or who stayed out all night were fined heavily or “gated” – that is, forbidden to leave college for several days."Synonyms: groundtransitive
3. (transitive, biochemistry) To open (a closed ion channel).transitive
4. (transitive) To furnish with a gate.transitive
5. (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.transitive
6. (transitive) To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).Examples: "Lillian walked the halls wearing a shirt plastered with what she assured everyone was a memetic stun agent; it looked just like the kill agent gating access to the SCP-001 database file, but as she patiently explained to McInnis, in art, context is everything."transitive
noun (English)
1. (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.Examples: "I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate."; ""Stand out o' my gate, wife, for, d'ye see, I am rather in a haste, Jean Linton.""Northern-EnglandScotland
2. (obsolete) A journey.Examples: "[…] nought regarding, they kept on their gate, / And all her vaine allurements did forsake […]"obsolete
3. (Scotland, 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".Northern-EnglandScotland
4. (British, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.BritishScotlandarchaicdialectal
noun (English)
1. (education, acronym) gifted and talented educationabbreviationacronymuncountable
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