2. n. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
3. n. Movable barrier.
The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
4. n. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
5. n. (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out.
6. n. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
7. n. (flow cytometry) 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. (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
10. n. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
11. n. (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
12. n. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
13. n. (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
14. n. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
15. v. To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
16. v. To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
17. v. (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, 20
18. v. To furnish with a gate.
19. v. To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.
20. n. (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
21. n. (obsolete) A journey.
22. n. (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 Ki
23. n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.
portal
1. n. (Architecture) Portail.
portal
1. n. An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
The local library, a portal of knowledge.
2. n. (Internet) A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.
The new medical portal has dozens of topical categories containing links to hundreds of sites.
3. n. (anatomy) A short vein that carries blood into the liver.
4. n. (fiction) A magical or technological doorway leading to another location, period in time or dimension.
5. n. (architecture) A lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
6. n. (architecture) Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of an apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
7. n. A grandiose and often lavish entrance.
8. n. (bridge-building) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
9. n. A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
10. adj. (anatomy) Of or relating to a porta, especially the porta of the liver.
