noun
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.
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.
verb
To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
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.
“I’ve missed two lectures already,” remarked Maurice, who was breakfasting in his pyjamas. “Cut them all — he’ll only gate you.”
To open (a closed ion channel).
To furnish with a gate.
To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
noun
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.
"Stand out o' my gate, wife, for, d'ye see, I am rather in a haste, Jean Linton."
A journey.
[…] nought regarding, they kept on their gate, / And all her vaine allurements did forsake […]
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".
Manner; gait.