English Dictionary

gate

/ɡeɪt/

noun

A doorlike structure outside a house. / Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall. / Movable barrier. / Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.

I closed the gate before leaving the house.

意味（1）

A doorlike structure outside a house.

意味（2）

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

意味（3）

Movable barrier.

The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.

意味（4）

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

意味（5）

A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.

Lyons and Fisher's stations, who have spared nothing to ensure a success on this point, there is every reason to believe that the Northern Territory will soon be able to make a proper use of her geographical position, and become the gate of the East for all the Australian colonies.

意味（6）

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

意味（7）

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

意味（8）

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

意味（9）

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

意味（10）

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

意味（11）

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

意味（12）

(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.

意味（13）

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

意味（14）

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

意味（15）

A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.