gate
/ɡeɪt/
verb
- To confine or restrict someone or something to a particular area, often as a punishment or for security.
- The school principal decided to gate the student for a week after the prank.
- During the lockdown, the soldiers gated the entire neighborhood.
- The dog was gated in the backyard while the guests arrived.
noun
- A movable barrier, usually on hinges, that opens and closes to allow entry or exit through a fence, wall, or entrance.
- Please make sure to latch the gate behind you so the dog doesn't escape.
- The farmer closed the gate to keep the sheep in the field.
- She pushed open the wooden gate and walked into the garden.
- An entrance or exit, especially at an airport, stadium, or other large venue.
- Our flight departs from gate 12B, so we need to hurry.
- Fans lined up at the gate hours before the concert started.
- The sign above the gate said 'Arrivals' in bright letters.
- The number of people attending a sports event, concert, or other public gathering; also the total money paid by those people.
- The game drew a gate of over 50,000 fans.
- Ticket sales brought in a record gate for the theater company.
- A large gate at the final match meant big profits for the club.
- A device or circuit that controls the flow of electricity or signals, especially in electronics and computing.
- In digital circuits, an AND gate outputs a signal only when both inputs are active.
- A logic gate performs a basic operation in a computer processor.
- The engineer tested the gate to see if the signal would pass through.