gate

/geit/

Thân thiện

The passengers walked through the gate to board the airplane.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A movable barrier in a fence or wall: A structure used to close an opening, typically hinged or sliding, allowing entry or exit.
   • A point of entry or exit, especially at an airport: A designated area where passengers board or disembark from an aircraft.
   • The total admission receipts at a public event: The total money collected from ticket sales for an event like a sports match.
   • A logic gate in computing: A fundamental building block of a digital circuit that performs a logical operation on one or more binary inputs to produce a single binary output.

2. Verb:

   • To restrict movement as punishment: To confine someone, typically a student, to a campus or dormitory.
   • To control with a valve or similar device: To regulate the flow of something using a mechanism that functions like a gate.
   • To supply or fit with a gate: To install a gate in a fence or wall.

Usage Examples

• Noun:

  • Please close the garden gate to keep the dog inside.
  • Our flight is boarding at Gate B12.
  • Today's football match had a gate of over fifty thousand dollars.
  • A NAND gate is a common type of logic gate.

• Verb:

  • The headmaster gated the students for breaking the rules.
  • The engineer gated the flow of water to the turbine.
  • They decided to gate the new community for added security.

Advanced Usage

• "To get the gate" (idiom, informal): To be dismissed or fired from a job.
  • After the mistake, he got the gate from the company.
• "To give (someone) the gate" (idiom, informal): To dismiss or reject someone.
  • She gave him the gate after their first date.
• "To open the gate for/to": To create an opportunity or make something possible.
  • The new policy opens the gate for more investment.

Variants and Related Words

• Gateway (n): An opening that can be closed by a gate; a means of entrance or access.
  • The arch served as the main gateway to the city.
• Gatehouse (n): A house standing by or over a gateway, especially at the entrance to an estate.
• Gatekeeper (n): A person who controls access to something.
• Gated (adj): (Of a community or area) having a gate or gates to control access.
  • They live in a gated community.

Synonyms

• Barrier: A fence or other obstacle that prevents movement or access.
• Entrance: An opening, such as a door or gate, that allows access to a place.
• Turnstile: A mechanical gate consisting of revolving arms that allow people to pass one at a time.

Related Phrasal Verbs

(Note: "Gate" is not commonly used to form phrasal verbs. Its verbal uses are typically transitive as shown in the definitions.)

Related Idioms

• "Gate-crash": To attend a party or event without an invitation.
  • They tried to gate-crash the wedding reception.
• "Golden Gate": (Proper noun) A famous bridge in San Francisco, but used idiomatically to refer to a highly desirable or symbolic entrance.
• "Pearly gates": (Informal) The entrance to heaven.
  • He joked that he wasn't ready to see the pearly gates yet.

Học thuật

Noun

1. passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
2. total admission receipts at a sports event
3. a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
4. a movable barrier in a fence or wall

Verb

1. restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
2. control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
3. supply with a gate
   • The house was gated

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