Associations to the word «Gate»

GATE, noun. ​A doorlike structure outside a house.

GATE, noun. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.

GATE, noun. Movable barrier.

GATE, noun. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.

GATE, noun. (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.

GATE, noun. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.

GATE, noun. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.

GATE, noun. Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.

GATE, noun. (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

GATE, noun. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.

GATE, noun. (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.

GATE, noun. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.

GATE, noun. (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture

GATE, verb. To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.

GATE, verb. To ground someone.

GATE, verb. (biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.

GATE, verb. (transitive) To furnish with a gate.

GATE, verb. (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.

GATE, noun. (now) (Scotland) (Northern England) A way, path.

GATE, noun. (obsolete) A journey.

GATE, noun. (Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street.

GATE, noun. (UK) (Scotland) (dialect) (archaic) manner; gait

GATE, proper noun. A town in Oklahoma.

GATE ARRAY, noun. (electronics) an integrated circuit that is a prefabricated silicon chip circuit with no particular function except standard functions like NAND or NOR logic gates, and other active devices.

GATE ARRAYS, noun. Plural of gate array

GATE CRASH, verb. (very rare) Alternative form of gatecrash

GATE CRASHED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of gate crash

GATE CRASHER, noun. Alternative spelling of gatecrasher

GATE CRASHERS, noun. Plural of gate crasher

GATE CRASHES, verb. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gate crash

GATE CRASHING, verb. Present participle of gate crash

GATE GUARD, noun. (at an airport or military base) A decommissioned aircraft, artillery piece, or tank, displayed near the entrance to the area.

GATE GUARDIAN, noun. Alternative form of gate guard

GATE GUARDIANS, noun. Plural of gate guardian

GATE GUARDS, noun. Plural of gate guard

GATE HOUSE, noun. A structure located at an entrance to a large property, especially a dwelling.

GATE NIGHT, proper noun. (around New York City) (Connecticut) (Rhode Island) A particular night, commonly the night of the 30th to the 31st of October, during which young people play pranks and do mischief in their neighborhoods.

GATE RAPE, noun. Aggressive security screening prior to aircraft boarding.

GATE RAPE, verb. (of airport security staff) To aggressively screen (someone) prior to allowing (that person) to board an aircraft.

GATE RAPED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of gate rape

GATE RAPES, noun. Plural of gate rape

GATE RAPING, verb. Present participle of gate rape

GATE RECEIPTS, noun. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event

GATE VALVE, noun. A valve that is opened by lifting a round or rectangular gate or wedge out of the path of the fluid.

GATE VALVES, noun. Plural of gate valve

GATE VEIN, noun. Portal vein

GATE, noun. A movable barrier in a fence or wall.

GATE, noun. A computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs.

GATE, noun. Total admission receipts at a sports event.

GATE, noun. Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.

GATE, verb. Supply with a gate; "The house was gated".

GATE, verb. Control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate.

GATE, verb. Restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment.