Gate
Gate (gāt) , noun
[Old English yet, yeat, giat, gate, door, Anglo-Saxon geat, gat, gate, door; akin to Old Saxon, Dutch, & Icelandic gat opening, hole, and perh. to English gate a way, gait, and get, v. Compare Gate a way, 3d Get.]
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.
Knowest thou the way to Dover?
Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath.
Opening a gate for a long war.
3.
A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
4.
(Scripture) The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
5.
In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
6.
(a) (Founding) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.
(b)
(Founding) The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.
Collocations (9)
Gate chamber , a recess in the side wall of a canal lock, which receives the opened gate.
Gate channel , See Gate, 5.
Gate hook , the hook-formed piece of a gate hinge.
Gate money , entrance money for admission to an inclosure.
Gate tender , one in charge of a gate, as at a railroad crossing.
Gate valva , a stop valve for a pipe, having a sliding gate which affords a straight passageway when open.
Gate vein (Anatomy) , the portal vein.
To break gates (Eng. Univ.) , to enter a college inclosure after the hour to which a student has been restricted.
To stand in the gate or To stand in the gates , to occupy places or advantage, power, or defense.
Gate , transitive verb
1.
To supply with a gate.
2.
(Eng. Univ.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.
Gate , noun
[Icelandic gata; akin to SW. gata street, lane, Danish gade, Gothic gatwo, German gasse. Compare Gate a door, Gait.]
1.
A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate). [O. English & Scottish]
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.
2.
Manner; gait. [O. English & Scottish]