A Quick and Simple Dictionary

gate

1. Noun.  A doorlike structure outside a house.
2. Noun.  Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
3. Noun.  Movable barrier.
4. Noun.  (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are ''and'', ''or'', ''nand'', etc.
5. Noun.  (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
6. Noun.  The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
7. Noun.  (context, flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
8. Noun.  passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
9. Noun.  (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
10. Verb.  To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
11. Verb.  To ground someone.
12. Verb.  (biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.Alberts, Bruce; et al. "Figure 11-21: The gating of ion channels." In: ''Molecular Biology of the Cell'', ed. Senior, Sarah Gibbs. New York: Garland Science, 2002 [cited 18 December 2009]. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=mboc4&part=A1986&rendertype=figure&id=A2030..
13. Noun.  (context, now) A way, path.
14. Noun.  (obsolete) A journey.
15. Noun.  (context, Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street.