gate

At 7, he made his exit through the Ch‘ien-ch‘ing and the Lung-tsung gates, and thence, through the Yung-Hang Gate he entered the Tz‘u-ning Palace.

1870 June [1870 April], “The Peking Gazettes”, in Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume 3, number 1, Foochow: American Presbyterian Mission Press, →OCLC, page 12, column 1:

A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.

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

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

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.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 246:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out.

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

After all, not using film has advantages other than cost: the curse of getting a hair in the gate (the rectangular opening at the front of a camera) is gone; the problem of getting dirt on the film swept away.

2023 March 16, John Boorman, “Today’s ‘films’ are nothing of the sort – so stop calling them that”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

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

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

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

It would encompass more than 500 acres and include a new theme park, several hotels, two mammoth parking garages with direct access from the freeway and a "third gate" — land set aside for future expansion.

1993 05, Rich Mannino, “The World According to Disney”, in Orange Coast Magazine, page 83:

Disneyland opened its second gate – Disney's California Adventure. It was located exactly where Westcot would have been, directly across a central plaza from the Disneyland main gate.

2006 August 1, Shaun Finnie, The Disneylands That Never Were, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 168:

At Disneyland Paris, the much-delayed “second gate,” a Walt Disney Studios theme park, opened on March 16.

2008 December 9, James B. Stewart, Disneywar: The Battle for the Magic Kingdom, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

For its part, Universal is also continuing to grow domestically, with its new second gate in Orlando – Volcano Bay – opening around the same time as Pandora.

2018 April 16, John Reynolds, Cambridge IGCSE First Language English 4th edition, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.

The gangs were fighting for control of "drug gates," control points for the sale of crack cocaine, heroin and marijuana.

1996 April 24, “Connecticut: Task Force Successful In Curbing Street Gangs”, in Organized Crime Digest, volume 17, number 9, Annandale, V.A.: Washington Crime News Service, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:

I put more guns in East Coast niggas' hands than East Coast niggas did when they came out here. I put them niggas on to more weed gates and weed spots and safe havens and safe spots than the East Coast did.

1996 June, Tupac Shakur, quotee, “Inside the Mind of Shakur”, in Tupac Shakur, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 101:

The spatial mapping of Jamaica onto U.S. cities entails the erection of dance halls, reggae clubs, smoking yards or "weed gates," select storefront vendors of Rasta apparel, ritual paraphernalia, and ital ("natural" and approved) foods (Hepner 1998: 206).

2007, Paul Christopher Johnson, Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa, Berkeley, C.A. […]: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 56:

The very first dread I worked with, Dusty, had his gate at 55 Bowen.

2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into The Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 69:

There's not a gate in the West Side area that lasts longer than a month other than the ones I service. Gates go up and come down just as fast.

2018, Robert Ricks, Fast Furious & Fatherless: An Urban Tale, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu Publishing Services, →ISBN, page 244:

(slang) A place where drugs are illegally sold.

sluse

one-way accessway, e.g. used for security inspection of passengers

ка́сов сбор

money made by selling tickets for an event

gate

(electronics) name of one terminal of a transistor

From Middle English gate, gat, ȝate, ȝeat, from Old English ġeat (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”).
See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.


gate

(transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.

“I’ve missed two lectures already,” remarked Maurice, who was breakfasting in his pyjamas.
“Cut them all — he’ll only gate you.”

1971, E. M. Forster, chapter 13, in Maurice, Penguin, published 1972, page 72:

Dons could ring the front bell and be admitted after that hour. But students who returned after midnight or who stayed out all night were fined heavily or “gated” – that is, forbidden to leave college for several days.

2010, Thomas J. Schaeper, Kathleen Schaeper, “Yanks and Brits”, in Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite, New York, NY: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 52:

(transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.

(transitive, biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.

(transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.

en-verb

gate (third-person singular simple present gates, present participle gating, simple past and past participle gated)

gates (present singular third-person)
gating (participle present)
gated (participle past)
gated (past)


gate

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.

1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:

"Stand out o' my gate, wife, for, d'ye see, I am rather in a haste, Jean Linton."

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

[…] nought regarding, they kept on their gate, / And all her vaine allurements did forsake […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

(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 Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".

(British, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.

Borrowed from Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ. Cognate with Danish gade, Swedish gata, German Gasse (“lane”). Doublet of gait.