Usually means: Barrier controlling access or passage.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. -gate, gate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. -gate, gate, gate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gate, gate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -gate, gate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gate, gate: Wordnik
  7. gate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. GATE, Gate, -gate, gate: Wiktionary
  9. -gate, gate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gate, -gate, gate: Dictionary.com
  13. -gate, gate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. GATE (organization), GATE (test), GATE (video game), GATE, Gate (Sore wa Akatsuki no You ni), Gate (airport), Gate (album), Gate (band), Gate (casting), Gate (cytometry), Gate (disambiguation), Gate (engineering), Gate (film), Gate (hydraulic engineering), Gate (manga), Gate (novel series), Gate (solitaire), Gate (suffix), Gate (transistor), Gate, The Gate (Kurt Elling album), The Gate (Swans album), The Gate (film), The Gate (novel), The Gate (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gate: Rhymezone
  19. gate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. -gate, gate: MyWord.info
  22. gate: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. gate: Free Dictionary
  24. gate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. gate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. gate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. The Gate, -gate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Jazz Humor (No longer online)
  3. -gate: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  4. Gate: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. gate: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. GATE, gate: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. gate: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  3. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Gate (transistor), gate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. gate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. GATE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. gate: Idioms
  5. Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gate: Easton Bible
  2. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Gate: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. gate: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Gate, gate: Urban Dictionary
  3. Gate: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Gate: Sports Definitions

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  5. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  6. gate: Chapters in the Sky
  7. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  9. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)
  10. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A doorlike structure outside a house.
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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