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Gate

noun

1.

A movable barrier in a fence or wall.

2.

A computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs. Synonym: logic gate.

3.

Total admission receipts at a sports event.

4.

Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.

verb

1.

Supply with a gate.

2.

Control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate.

3.

Restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment.

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"Gate" Quotes from Famous Books

... crushed out, the character can hardly fail to suffer from the loss. I will not, indeed, say that a person who does not love Nature is necessarily bad; or that one who does, is necessarily good; but it is to most minds a great help. Many, as Miss Cobbe says, enter the Temple through the gate called Beautiful. ...

— The Pleasures of Life • Sir John Lubbock

... 'Lay of the Last Minstrel,' in the very locality where it is supposed to have occurred. At present, however, a sable widow, of the most unimpeachable respectability, casts a melancholy gloom over the place by the dejected yet resigned manner in which she unlocks the wooden gate and ushers strangers through the nave and transepts. Her orders, she says, are to allow no one to remain a moment in the ruin without her superintending presence—which is ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 • Various

... darkness at the memory of the fact that things were now reversed; that he was following Squint Rodaine as Rodaine once had followed him. Swiftly he moved, closer—closer; the scar-faced man went through the tumble-down gate and approached the house, not knowing that his pursuer was ...

— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper

... presented all the appearances of ancient opulence; but also of dilapidation dating from a long time back. There was the feudal drawbridge, immovable through long disuse, leading straight to the large gate, full of those iron rivets used in olden times as a defence against the attacks of the hatchet and pike. But the wood itself was rotting, and the rusty hinges could scarcely sustain their accustomed weight. In the tumbledown walls I could see loopholes large enough ...

— Major Frank • A. L. G. Bosboom-Toussaint

... he was of Sarah's fundamental kindness, Caleb experienced a twinge of guilty uncertainty that August afternoon as he closed the iron gate behind the grotesque little figure which had already started across his lawn. For the moment he had forgotten that the sun was low in the west; he had overlooked the fact that it was customary for the Hunter establishment to sup early during the ...

— Then I'll Come Back to You • Larry Evans

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