gate : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a circuit in a computer that fires only when all of its inputs fire
  AND circuit.
  

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An*oth"er-gates` adjective

Etymology

Another + gate, or gait, way. Cf. Algates.

Definitions

1. Of another sort. Obs. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.

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• noun gate where passengers disembark
  

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• a heavy gate to close the opening through a barrier.

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• noun United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)
  Bill Gates; Gates.
  

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• the gate of a burial place through which the dead are carried, often having a covered porch; called also lich gate.

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• noun gate where passengers embark
  

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• noun a gateway to the west of ancient Athens near which a distinctive style of pottery has been found
  Dipylon.
  

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• a gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate.

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• a recess in the side wall of a canal lock, which receives the opened gate.

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• . See Gate, 5.

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• the hook-formed piece of a gate hinge.

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• entrance money for admission to an inclosure.

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• one in charge of a gate, as at a railroad crossing.

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• a stop valve for a pipe, having a sliding gate which affords a straight passageway when open.

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• (Anat.), the portal vein.

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• verb enter uninvited; informal
  crash; barge in.
  
  • let's crash the party!

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• noun a large national park in Alaska featuring the Great Mendenhall Glacier
  

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• verb terminate a relationship abruptly
  give the bounce; give the axe.
  
  • Mary gave John the axe after she saw him with another woman

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• noun a strait in western California that connects the San Francisco Bay with the Pacific Ocean; discovered in 1579 by Sir Francis Drake
  

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• noun a suspension bridge across the Golden Gate
  

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• noun regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice
  floodgate; head gate; sluicegate; penstock; sluice valve.
  
• noun a gate upstream from a lock or canal that is used to control the flow of water at the upper end
  

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• noun annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America
  prince's-plume; Polygonum orientale; princess feather; prince's-feather.
  

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• a covered gate through which the corpse was carried to the church or burial place, and where the bier was placed to await clergyman; a corpse gate. Prov. Eng. Halliwell.

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• a gate that is opened by lifting.

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• noun a gate that can be locked
  

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• a park gate, or entrance gate, near the lodge. See Lodge, n., 1 (b).

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• noun a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
  gate.
  

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Lych" gate`

Definitions

1. . See under Lich.

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• noun a logic gate that produces an output that is the inverse of the output of an AND gate
  NAND circuit.
  

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• noun a gate circuit in a computer that fires when any of its inputs fire
  OR circuit.
  

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• (Rom. Antiq.), that one of the four gates in a camp which lay next the enemy.

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• a saw frame.

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Sea"-gate`, Sea"-gait` noun (Also<

• Sea-gate
• Sea-gait

)

Definitions

1. A long, rolling swell of the sea. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

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• the sliding gate of a sluice.

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• noun a movable barrier on the starting line of a race course
  starting stall.
  

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• noun a gate downstream from a lock or canal that is used to control the flow of water at the lower end
  

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• the grave.

  Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Job xxxviii. 17.

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• noun a logic element that performs a threshold operation
  threshold element.
  

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• . (a) An opening through which water may flow freely when the tide sets in one direction, but which closes automatically and prevents the water from flowing in the other direction. (b) (Naut.) A place where the tide runs with great velocity, as through a gate.

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• (Eng. Univ.), to enter a college inclosure after the hour to which a student has been restricted.

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• to occupy places or advantage, power, or defense.

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• (Carp.), to put it on hinges so that it can swing or turn.

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• a gate by which the superfluous water of a reservoir, or the like, is discharged.

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• noun regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice
  floodgate; head gate; sluicegate; penstock; sluice valve.
  

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Wa"ter gate`

Definitions

1. A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated.

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• a small door or gate; a wicket. See def. 1, above. Bunyan.

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• noun small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door)
  wicket door; wicket.
  

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• noun United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)
  Bill Gates; Gates.
  

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• noun gate for exclusive OR; a circuit in a computer that fires only if only one of its inputs fire
  XOR circuit; X-OR circuit.
  

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