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gate^¹

/ˈɡeɪ̯t/ US, UK
/ˈɡæɪ̯t/ Australia, New Zealand
[ˈɡæ̝ɪ̯t] Australia, New Zealand
/ɡet/ Scotland
/ɡeːt/ Wales

Sounds like gait (pane–pain merger) · Rhymes with -eɪt

Where it comes from

From Middle English gate (the forms ȝate and ȝeat yielded the dialectal doublet yate), from the plural of Old English ġeat (specifically gatu), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”).

See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.

noun gates · yate

A doorlike structure outside a house.
A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall. 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.
Similar: doorway, entrance, passage
A movable barrier. 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.
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.
The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
Similar: logic gate
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.
The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
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.
A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture. 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.
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.
An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks. 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.
slang A place where drugs are illegally sold. The gangs were fighting for control of "drug gates," control points for the sale of crack cocaine, heroin and marijuana.
dated A man; a male person. Whatcha gonna say there, gate?
Similar: cat, dude, guy, bloke, boy, bro, broski, bruh, chap, chappy, chield, cove
A tunnel serving the coal face.

verb gates · gating · gated · yate

transitive To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
dated, historical, transitive To punish (a student) by not allowing to leave the college grounds. You climbed the wall, for which you ought to be gated; and finally, you came in blotto, for which you ought to be sent down.
Similar: ground
transitive To open (a closed ion channel).
transitive To furnish with a gate.
transitive To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
transitive To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something). Access to the building is gated by a security system.

gate^²

/ˈɡeɪ̯t/ US, UK
/ˈɡæɪ̯t/ Australia, New Zealand
[ˈɡæ̝ɪ̯t] Australia, New Zealand
/ɡet/ Scotland
/ɡeːt/ Wales

Sounds like gait (pane–pain merger) · Rhymes with -eɪt

Where it comes from

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

noun gates

Northern England, Scotland A way, path. 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.
obsolete A journey. […] nought regarding, they kept on their gate, / And all her vaine allurements did forsake […]
Northern England, Scotland 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".
Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal Manner; gait.

Gate^³

proper noun

A ghost town in Scott County, Arkansas, United States.
A tiny town in Beaver County, Oklahoma, United States.
An unincorporated community in Thurston County, Washington, United States.

GATE^⁴

/ɡeɪt/

Sounds like gait · Rhymes with -eɪt

noun

abbreviation, acronym, uncountable gifted and talented education

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: gateway, doorstep, portal, doorway, railing, fence, wall, hatch, trapdoor, barrier, barricade, porch, screen, door, scale, lock

Translations

Every language

noun door-like structure outside

Español	puerta, portón, portalón
한국어	문 mun, 대문 daemun
日本語	門, 大門
中文	門口 /门口 ménkǒu, 門 /门 mén, 大門 /大门 dàmén
हिन्दी	फाटक phāṭak, द्वार dvār
Kiswahili	lango
Português	portão
Français	portail, porte
Deutsch	Tor
Italiano	cancello
Ελληνικά	πόρτα pórta, εξώπορτα exóporta, εξώθυρα exóthyra, αυλόπορτα avlóporta
Română	poartă
Русский	воро́та voróta, врата́ vratá, кали́тка kalítka
Tiếng Việt	cổng
العربية	بَوَّابَة bawwāba
עברית	שַׁעַר shá'ar

noun doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall

Español	puerta, reja, verja, rejado, cancela
日本語	扉 tobira
हिन्दी	फाटक phāṭak
Português	portão
Français	porte
Deutsch	Tor
Italiano	cancello
Ελληνικά	πύλη pýli, θύρα thýra
Română	poartă
עברית	איבול \ אִבּוּל ibúl

noun in an air terminal

Español	puerta
한국어	탑승구 tapseunggu
日本語	ゲート gēto, 搭乗口 tōjōguchi
中文	登機口 /登机口 dēngjīkǒu, 閘口 /闸口 zhákǒu
Português	porta
Français	porte
Deutsch	Flugsteig, Gate
Italiano	uscita; porta; gate
Ελληνικά	έξοδος éxodos
Русский	воро́та voróta, вы́ход výxod, вы́ход на поса́дку výxod na posádku

noun money made by selling tickets for an event

日本語	売上げ uriage

noun computing: logical pathway

Español	compuerta
日本語	ゲート gēto
中文	門 /门 mén
Français	porte logique
Русский	вентиль ventilʹ

noun (electronics) name of one terminal of a transistor

Español	puerta
Français	grille
Русский	затвор zatvor

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@misc{gate_2026,
  title = {gate},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gate},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}

gate

AI In plain words

gate¹

Where it comes from

noun gates · yate

verb gates · gating · gated · yate

gate²

Where it comes from

noun gates

Gate³

proper noun

GATE⁴

noun

Thesaurus

Translations

noun door-like structure outside

noun doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall

noun in an air terminal

noun money made by selling tickets for an event

noun computing: logical pathway

noun (electronics) name of one terminal of a transistor

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GATE^⁴