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Meaning of gate | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
ɡeɪt

Definitions

  1. gifted and talented education
    abbreviation, acronym, uncountable
  2. door (portal of entry into a building)
  3. A doorlike structure outside a house.
  4. A ghost town in Scott County, Arkansas, United States.
  5. A doorlike structure outside a house
  6. A way, path.
    Northern-England, Scotland
  7. A journey.
    obsolete
  8. gate (doorlike structure outside a house)
  9. A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
  10. A tiny town in Beaver County, Oklahoma, United States.
  11. To be dismissed or rejected.
  12. A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall
  13. 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".
    Northern-England, Scotland
  14. gate (passageway in an airport)
  15. A movable barrier.
  16. An unincorporated community in Thurston County, Washington, United States.
  17. Archaic. a path; way.
  18. A movable barrier
  19. Manner; gait.
    British, Scotland, archaic, dialectal
  20. doorway, doorstep, gateway
  21. A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
  22. a combining form extracted from Watergate, occurring as the final element in journalistic coinages, usu. nonce words, that name scandals resulting from concealed crime or other improprieties in government or business: Irangate.
  23. A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
  24. goal (area into which players attempt to put an object)
  25. A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
  26. Arrangement of transistors that works on pulses travelling through a computer’s circuits.
  27. A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade
  28. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
  29. The amount of money collected as admission, especially to a sporting event:box office, take.
  30. A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
  31. (a metal, wooden etc doorlike object which closes) the opening in a wall, fence etc through which people etc pass. I'll meet you at the park gate(s). hek بَوّابَه порта portão brána, vrata das Tor port; låge πύλη, αυλόπορταpuerta; verja värav دروازه؛ محل ورود و خروج portti porte, barrièreשער द्वार ograda kapu gerbang hlið cancello; portone 門 (울타리, 담 등에 있는) 문, 사립문, 살문 vartai vārti pintu pagar hek, poortport, grindbrama لوى ور ( لكه دكور ) ور، خوله ( مدخل )، دروازه: وت، چوړګه portão poartă, bar...
    etc
  32. The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
  33. to enter or go to (a party, meeting etc) without being invited or without paying. ongenooid opdaag يَحْضُر حَفْلا بِدون دَعْوَه влизам без покана penetrar přijít bez pozvání das Eindringen komme uinviteret πηγαίνω κάπου απρόσκλητος colarse kontvõõrana sisse tungima, ilma piletita sisse minema بدون دعوت یا بدون بلیط وارد محفلی شدن kuokkia faire l'intrus לְהִיכַּנֵס לְלא הַזמָנָה बिन बुलाए घुसना ući bez pozivnice (ili ulaznice) betolakodik menyelundup dalam pesta mæta óboðinn til veislu intrufo...
    etc
  34. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
  35. ongenooide gas من يَحْضُر حَفْلا بِدون دَعْوَه неканен гост penetra nezvaný host der Eindringling ubuden gæst απρόσκλητος, παρείσακτος persona que se ha colado, intruso kontvõõras, jänes مهمان ناخوانده؛ کسی که بدون بلیط وارد مکانی می شود kuokkija intrus/-use אוֹרֵח לא קָרוּא बिन बुलाया मेहमान koji dolazi bez pozivnice hívatlan vendég penyelundup dalam pesta boðflenna intruso 無切符入場者 강도 nekviestas svečias, zuikis nelūgts viesis; bezbiļetnieks (sarīkojumā u.tml.) orang yang hadir tanpa dijemput ...
  36. The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
  37. a post to which a gate is fixed. hekwag عامود البُوّابَه стълб на врата pilar sloup u vrat der Torpfosten portstolpe παραστάτης πύλης, αυλόπορτας poste väravapost تیر چهارچوب دروازه portinpieli montant de porte עַמוּד הַשַׁעַר फाटक का खम्भा stup na kojemu vise vrata kapufélfa pintu hliðstólpi colonna/pilastro di cancello 門柱 문기둥 vartų šulas vārtu stabs tiang pagar hekpaal port-/grindstolpe słupek bramy د در تیرک pilar stâlp al porţii воротный столб stĺp brány vratni steber potporni stub kapije...
  38. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
  39. an opening or entrance into a city etc, which contains a gate. poort بَوّابَه، مَدْخَل вход portão brána der Torweg portåbning πύλη, είσοδοςentrada, puerta, puerta de entrada värav مدخل؛ راه ورودی porttikäytävä porte, portail פֶּתַח שַׁעַר द्वार मार्ग, दूसरी जगह जाने का रास्ता prolaz kroz velika vrata kapubejárat pintu gerbang hlið; aðkomuleið entrata; porta 入口 통로 vartai vārti pintu masuk poortport, inngang, innfallsport brama wjazdowa خوله ( مدخل )، دوره لاره portão poartă de in­trare, barie...
    etc
  40. The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
  41. A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
  42. A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
  43. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
  44. An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
  45. A place where drugs are illegally sold.
    slang
  46. A man; a male person.
    dated
  47. A tunnel serving the coal face.

Equivalents

العربية البوابة بوابة
Azərbaycanca darvaza
Беларуская брама вароты
Български врата изход капия порта
বাংলা দরজা
བོད་སྐད རྒྱལ་སྒོ
Čeština brána hradlo vrata
Dansk Lage port sluse
Deutsch Flugsteig Gate Tor
Eesti värav
Suomi hila portti
Gaeilge geata
Gàidhlig geata
Galego portelo poxigo
ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi puka
עברית שער
हिन्दी द्वार फाटक
Magyar kapu
Հայերեն դարպաս մուտք
Bahasa Indonesia gerbang
Íslenska hlið
日本語 ゲート 売上げ 大門 搭乗口
Қазақша дарбаза қақпа
한국어 대문 탑승구
Kurdî çong tor
Кыргызча дарбаза
Latina porta
Lëtzebuergesch Paart
ລາວ ປະຕູ
Lietuvių vartai
Македонски влез врата капија порта
मराठी द्वार
Bahasa Melayu gerbang
မြန်မာဘာသာ ဂိတ် တံခါး
Nederlands gate poort
Polski brama bramka furtka wrota
پښتو دروازه
Português Gate porta portão
Română poartă
Slovenčina Braňa
Slovenščina vrata
Shqip portë
Svenska grind port
Kiswahili lango
Тоҷикӣ дар
ไทย ประตู
Türkmençe derweze
Tagalog tarangkahan
Türkçe kapı
ئۇيغۇرچە دەرۋازا
Українська бра́ма ворота
Oʻzbekcha darvoza
Tiếng Việt còng

Examples

“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.”
“The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.”
“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.”
“Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“At Disneyland Paris, the much-delayed “second gate,” a Walt Disney Studios theme park, opened on March 16.”
“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.”
“The gangs were fighting for control of "drug gates," control points for the sale of crack cocaine, heroin and marijuana.”
“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.”
“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).”
“The very first dread I worked with, Dusty, had his gate at 55 Bowen.”
“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.”
“Whatcha gonna say there, gate?”
“He said, "Come on, gates, and jump with me / At the June Teenth Jamboree."”
“Louie wants you to get in there and lay yo' racket on that writin' machine so all the fine dinners and gates up in the land o' darkness will be hep and truck on down to this frolic pad 'cause the joint's really gonna be jumpin' and everythin' will be fine as wine like watermelon on the vine.”
“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.”
“"Stand out o' my gate, wife, for, d'ye see, I am rather in a haste, Jean Linton."”
“[…] nought regarding, they kept on their gate, / And all her vaine allurements did forsake […]”

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