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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

... quiet." He went to the House entrance with Dr. Aveling, and into the House alone. His daughters and I went together, and with some hundreds of others carrying petitions—ten only with each petition, and the ten rigidly counted and allowed to pass through the gate, sufficiently opened to let one through at a time—reached Westminster Hall, where we waited on the steps leading to the ...

— Annie Besant - An Autobiography • Annie Besant

... strategically located astride some of oldest and most significant land routes in Europe; Moravian Gate is a traditional military corridor between the North European Plain and the Danube in ...

— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency

... as it might have appeared to one standing just outside the castle gate, as Sir Launfal emerged from his castle in his search for ...

— The Vision of Sir Launfal - And Other Poems • James Russell Lowell

... also executed the following machination: she constructed for herself a tomb, aloft upon a gate in one of the most frequented ways of the city; upon the sepulcher she engraved this inscription: "If any one of my successors, the kings of Babylon, shall lack money, let him open the sepulcher, and take what treasures he pleases. But let him beware ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece • Various

... manners. An ardent loyalist, the people of Kent appointed him to present to the House of Commons their petition for the restoration of Charles and the settlement of the government. The petition gave offence, and the bearer was committed to the Gate House, at Westminster, where he wrote his graceful little song, ...

— Books and Authors - Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches • Anonymous

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