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▸ noun: A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
▸ noun: A movable barrier.
▸ noun: A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
▸ noun: A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
▸ noun: The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
▸ noun: (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
▸ noun: (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
▸ noun: In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
▸ noun: (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
▸ noun: The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
▸ noun: (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
▸ noun: (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
▸ noun: (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
▸ noun: A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
▸ noun: An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
▸ noun: (slang) A place where drugs are illegally sold.
▸ verb: (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
▸ verb: (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
▸ verb: (transitive, biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.
▸ verb: (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
▸ verb: (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
▸ noun: (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A journey.
▸ noun: (Scotland, Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
▸ noun: (British, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.
▸ noun: A ghost town in Scott County, Arkansas, United States.
▸ noun: A tiny town in Beaver County, Oklahoma, United States.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Thurston County, Washington, United States.
▸ noun: (education, initialism) gifted and talented education
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