1. n. An entrance capable of being blocked by use of a gate.
2. n. Any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another.
3. n. A point at which freight moving from one territory to another is interchanged between transportation lines.
4. n. (digital communications) In wireless internet, an access point with additional software capabilities such as providing NAT and DHCP, which may also provide VPN support, roaming, firewalls, various lev
5. v. (transitive, digital communications) To make available via a gateway, or access point.
door
1. n. (Menuiserie) Porte.
close the door.
2. n. Portière (car door).
He's openning the car door.
door
1. n. A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to ho
I knocked on the vice president's door
2. n. Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
the 24 doors in an Advent calendar
3. n. (immigration) An entry point.
4. n. (figurative) A means of approach or access.
Learning is the door to wisdom.
5. n. (figurative) A barrier.
Keep a door on your anger.
6. n. (computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
7. v. (transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.
gate
1. n. Portail.
Gate in a fence.
Portail dans une clôture.
2. n. Porte.
Airport gate.
Porte d'aéroport.
gate
1. n. A doorlike structure outside a house.
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.
