Definitions for the word "gate" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To supply with a gate.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. t.
To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
Manner; gait.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
1 barrier, usu. Hinged, used to close an opening made for entrance and exit through a wall, fence, etc. 2 such an opening. 3 means of entrance or exit. 4 numbered place of access to aircraft at an airport. 5 device regulating the passage of water in a lock etc. 6 a number of people entering by payment at the gates of a sports ground etc. B amount of money taken thus. 7 a electrical signal that causes or controls the passage of other signals. B electrical circuit with an output that depends on the combination of several inputs. v. (-ting) confine to college or school as a punishment. gated adj. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
13. slang
THE, Billingsgate. Sometimes Newgate, according to the
occupation and condition of the speaker. In the same way Paternoster Row
is by publishers known as “the Row.”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
14. slang
to order an undergrad not to pass beyond the college GATE. As a
rule, the GATE begins after hall, but in extreme cases the offender is
GATED for the whole day.—_University._
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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