Word Finder - gate

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A doorlike structure outside a house.

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Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.

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Movable barrier.

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The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.

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A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.

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The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.

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Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out.

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The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.

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(flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.

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

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The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

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In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.

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The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.

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The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.

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A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.

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A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.

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To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.

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To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.

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• ground

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To open a closed ion channel.

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To furnish with a gate.

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To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.

She opened the gate and stepped through.

He opened the gate for her and she went straight to his waiting arms.

The gate, I suppose, is New York City, and Freedom is the great statue of Liberty.

At the autumn equinox, the gate is weakest.

Carmen closed the gate and sloshed back to the barn.

Shutting the last gate, Alex glanced at her and grinned.

He exited the stall and closed the gate, staring down at her defiantly.

Alex had made a temporary gate between the two fields.

Beyond the gate, in a place called the Hajun, is the chief cemetery, commonly called el Ma'la, and said to be the resting-place of many of the companions of Mahomet.

Two well-armed guards stood outside the gate, flanking the slender fed in a blue medical uniform.

She glanced around to see if a gate was open.

Even the beggars outside the thick, bulletproof glass of the main gate were quiet, their small fires dark.

After crossing the low hills east of the Pyramus it passed through a masonry (Cilician) gate, Demir Kapu, and entered the plain of Issus.

Ferapontov's wife, who till then had not ceased wailing under the shed, became quiet and with the baby in her arms went to the gate, listening to the sounds and looking in silence at the people.

At the gate of one house three Frenchmen, who were explaining something to some Russians who did not understand them, stopped Pierre asking if he did not know French.

At the gate, she finally paused to catch her breath, her face still burning.

He dropped the portcullis and shoved the lever to turn the iron gate.

Fires ignited near the south gate as his men attacked groups of Memon's advisors and the warriors that had been invited into the hold for the feast.

A portion of another, that of Nicias, was used to make the late Roman gate of the Acropolis.

Beverley was walled, and one gate of the 15th century remains; there are also some picturesque old houses.

The parking lot was empty, and the only sign of unusual activity was the open gate.

Despite his foreboding, he left the chamber and sent word for Vara to meet him at the main gate.

The iron gate closed and then buckled as the furious demon beat against it.

When the three men rode through, she shut the gate and turned Princes toward the trail that Alex had chosen.

The bison were drifting through the gate as she got to the footbridge.

Felipa watched the children while Carmen showed the men where she wanted the fence and explained how she wanted the gate in the existing fence.

Alex rounded the corner of the barn and addressed the man working on the area where the gate was going to be.

When Cicero was quaestor in Sicily (75 B.C.), he found the tomb of Archimedes, near the Agrigentine gate, overgrown with thorns and briers.

Close to this temple on the west is the site of the gate known in later times as the Porta Aurea, through which the modern road passes, so that no traces now remain.

Two miles north-west of Callander is the Pass of Leny, "the gate of the Highlands," and farther in the same direction is Loch Lubnaig, on the shores of which stand the ruins of St Bride's chapel.

Another shorter valley began near the present Jaffa gate and, taking an easterly direction, joined the Tyropoeon; while a third ravine passed across what is now the northern part of the Haram enclosure and fell into the valley of the Kidron.

North of the Temple enclosure there was a gate, known as the Sheep Gate, which must have opened into the third valley mentioned above, and stood somewhere near what is now the north side of the Haram enclosure, but considerably south of the present north wall of the latter.

To the west of the Sheep Gate there were two important towers in the wall, called respectively Meah and Hananeel.

Westward of this gate the wall followed the south side of the valley which joined the Tyropoeon from the west as far as the north-western corner of the city at the site of the present Jaffa Gate and the socalled tower of David.

He doubled the area of the enclosure round the Temple, and there can be little doubt that a great part of the walls of the Haram area date from the time of Herod, while probably the tower of David, which still exists near the Jaffa Gate, is on the same foundation as one of the towers adjoining his palace.

The empress also erected a large church in honour of St Stephen north of the Damascus Gate, and is believed to have been buried therein.

On the Australian side the fact that Tasmania is richest in marsupial types indicates the gate by which they entered.

The superstructure of a similar gate (Porta Marzia), which was removed in 1540 to make way for the citadel, but is depicted in a fresco by Benedetto Bonfigli (between 1461 and 1 477), was re-erected in the substruction walls of the citadel itself.

As the city grew, the right to so many days a year atone or other shrine (or its " gate ") descended in certain families and became a species of property which could be pledged, rented or shared within the family, but not alienated.

The most important of the local dues is the gate tax, or dazio di consumo, which may be either a surtax upon commodities (such as alcoholic drinks or meat), having already paid customs duty at the frontier, in which case the local surtax may not exceed 50% of the frontier duty, or an exclusively communal duty limited to 10% on flour, bread and farinaceous products,2 and to 20% upon other commodities.

The most remarkable Roman building in Trier is the Porta Nigra, the north gate of the city, a huge fortified gateway, 115 ft.

On his death in 1035 Archbishop Poppo converted the gate into two churches, one above the other, but all the additions except the apse have now been removed.

Three years later, however, the whole road was paved with silex from the temple to Bovillae, and in 191 B.C. the first mile from the gate to the temple was similarly treated.

One of the most interesting institutions of Ghent is the great Beguinage (Begynhof) which, originally established in 1234 by the Bruges gate, was transferred in 1874 to the suburb of St Amandsberg.

Rome was at the same time in extreme peril from the advance of a Samnite army, and was barely saved by Sulla, who, after a hardfought battle, routed the enemy under Pontius Telesinus at the Colline gate of Rome.

The city has five gates, and from one of them, called Bala Khiaban gate (upper Khiaban), the main street (Khiaban), 25 yds.

These latter, as in the well-known case of the Lion's Gate at Mycenae, often appear with guardian animals as their supporters.

Being apprised by one of the nobles of the court of what had taken place, Firdousi passed the night in great anxiety; but passing in the morning by the gate that led from his own apartments into the palace, he met the sultan in his private garden, and succeeded by humble apologies in appeasing his wrath.

Wearing a jewelled crown, he stands before Abathur's door at the gate of the world of light; the Mandaeans accordingly invariably pray with their faces turned northward.

A railway line to connect the North Caucasian line (Rostov to Petrovsk) with the Transcaucasian line (Batum to Baku) has been built along the Caspian shore from Petrovsk, through the "gate" or pass of Derbent, to Baku.