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Gate   /geɪt/   Listen
Gate

noun
1.
A movable barrier in a fence or wall.
2.
A computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs.  Synonym: logic gate.
3.
Total admission receipts at a sports event.
4.
Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
verb
1.
Supply with a gate.
2.
Control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate.
3.
Restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment.



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"Gate" Quotes from Famous Books



... touching the state of the dead we can only guess at the meaning which they attach to these symbols. Perhaps they think that only ghosts who are painted red and white and who wear wreaths of red roses on their heads are admitted to the Village of the Ghosts, and that such as knock at the gate with no paint on their bodies and no wreath of roses on their brows are refused admittance and must turn sorrowfully away, to haunt their undutiful friends on earth who had omitted to pay the last marks of respect and honour to ...
— The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) • Sir James George Frazer
... moment the great iron gate was heard to creak on its hinges. Other wretches were being pitched inside ...
— Panther Eye • Roy J. Snell
... not dare take the road by the links, but made for the nearest human habitation. This was a farm about half a mile inland, and when we reached it we lay down by the stack-yard gate and panted. ...
— Prester John • John Buchan
... character, might justly have feared that he would revenge himself on his head. He was one evening returning home later than usual on his steady cob, when passing through a copse not far from the Texford gate, his horse pricked up its ears, and moved to the other side of the road, as if wishing to avoid an object it had discovered. Never since he bestrode it had it ...
— Won from the Waves • W.H.G. Kingston
... dawn for the gate of the village, where the caravans were to assemble. It was still freezing hard, and the narrow streets like sheets of solid ice, so that our horses kept their legs with difficulty. We must have numbered fifty or sixty camels, ...
— A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan • Harry De Windt


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