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      gate
      noun
      A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
      A movable barrier.
      A doorlike structure outside a house.
      A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
      A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
      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).
      (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
      The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
      (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
      (mining) A tunnel serving the coal face.
      (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
      In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
      An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
      (slang) A place where drugs are illegally sold.
      (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
      (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".
      (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.
      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.
      (education, acronym) gifted and talented education
      (dated, jive talk) A man; a male person.
      (obsolete) A journey.
      (British, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.
      verb
      (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
      (transitive) To punish (especially a child or teenager) by not allowing to go out.
      (transitive) To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).
      (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
      (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.
      Synonyms for gate
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