Meaning of "gate" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GATE

Old English geat; related to Old Frisian jet opening, Old Norse gat opening, passage.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF GATE

gate  [ɡeɪt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GATE

Gate is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb gate in English.

WHAT DOES GATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Gate

A gate or gateway is a point of entry to a space enclosed by walls, or a moderately sized opening in some sort of fence. Gates may prevent or control the entry or exit of individuals, or they may be merely decorative. Other terms for gate include yett and port. The word derives from the old Norse "gata", meaning road or path, and originally referred to the gap in the wall or fence, rather than the barrier which closed it. The moving part or parts of a gateway may be called "doors", but used for the whole point of entry door usually refers to the entry to a building, or an internal opening between different rooms. A gate may have a latch to keep it from swinging and a lock for security. Larger gates can be used for a whole building, such as a castle or fortified town, or the actual doors that block entry through the gatehouse. Today, many gate doors are opened by an automated gate operator.

Definition of gate in the English dictionary

The first definition of gate in the dictionary is a movable barrier, usually hinged, for closing an opening in a wall, fence, etc. Other definition of gate is an opening to allow passage into or out of an enclosed place. Gate is also any means of entrance or access.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO GATE

PRESENT

Present

I gate

you gate

he/she/it gates

we gate

you gate

they gate

Present continuous

I am gating

you are gating

he/she/it is gating

we are gating

you are gating

they are gating

Present perfect

I have gated

you have gated

he/she/it has gated

we have gated

you have gated

they have gated

Present perfect continuous

I have been gating

you have been gating

he/she/it has been gating

we have been gating

you have been gating

they have been gating

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I gated

you gated

he/she/it gated

we gated

you gated

they gated

Past continuous

I was gating

you were gating

he/she/it was gating

we were gating

you were gating

they were gating

Past perfect

I had gated

you had gated

he/she/it had gated

we had gated

you had gated

they had gated

Past perfect continuous

I had been gating

you had been gating

he/she/it had been gating

we had been gating

you had been gating

they had been gating

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will gate

you will gate

he/she/it will gate

we will gate

you will gate

they will gate

Future continuous

I will be gating

you will be gating

he/she/it will be gating

we will be gating

you will be gating

they will be gating

Future perfect

I will have gated

you will have gated

he/she/it will have gated

we will have gated

you will have gated

they will have gated

Future perfect continuous

I will have been gating

you will have been gating

he/she/it will have been gating

we will have been gating

you will have been gating

they will have been gating

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would gate

you would gate

he/she/it would gate

we would gate

you would gate

they would gate

Conditional continuous

I would be gating

you would be gating

he/she/it would be gating

we would be gating

you would be gating

they would be gating

Conditional perfect

I would have gate

you would have gate

he/she/it would have gate

we would have gate

you would have gate

they would have gate

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been gating

you would have been gating

he/she/it would have been gating

we would have been gating

you would have been gating

they would have been gating

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you gate
we let´s gate
you gate

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to gate

Past participle

gated

Present Participle

gating

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «GATE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «gate» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of gate

access · barrier · door · egress · entrance · exit · gateway · opening · port · portal

TRANSLATION OF GATE

Find out the translation of gate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of gate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gate» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 大门
• Translator English - Spanish: puerta
• English: gate
• Translator English - Hindi: द्वार
• Translator English - Arabic: بوَّابَة
• Translator English - Russian: ворота
• Translator English - Portuguese: portão
• Translator English - Bengali: গেট
• Translator English - French: portail
• Translator English - Malay: pintu gerbang
• Translator English - German: Tor
• Translator English - Japanese: 門
• Translator English - Korean: 문
• Translator English - Javanese: Gapura
• Translator English - Vietnamese: cổng
• Translator English - Tamil: வாயில்
• Translator English - Marathi: प्रवेशद्वार
• Translator English - Turkish: kapı
• Translator English - Italian: cancello
• Translator English - Polish: brama
• Translator English - Ukrainian: ворота
• Translator English - Romanian: poartă
• Translator English - Greek: πύλη
• Translator English - Afrikaans: hek
• Translator English - Swedish: grind
• Translator English - Norwegian: port

10 QUOTES WITH «GATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word gate.

1

Archibald Alexander

None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.

2

Robbie Amell

I've broken my wrist, dislocated toes and shoulders, gotten stitches, you name it. However, the worst was a severely bruised femur. I got body checked into an open gate while playing hockey. The doctor couldn't believe I didn't shatter my femur.

3

Regina Brett

I like that they call it an airplane cabin. A cabin is where you go to get away from stress. The cabin is a respite from the terminals on either end of the flight where noise bombards you as soon as you walk through the gate.

4

Hilarie Burton

'One Tree Hill' was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.

5

Nicolas Cage

I haven't isolated myself. I am not living on a yacht somewhere. I am not tucked away or behind a gate somewhere. I am not flying on a private plane. I am going to the airport, I am with people, some of the interactions are good, some of them are not so good, but it keeps me in touch with being, you know, part of society.

6

John Calvin

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

7

Christa Campbell

I love doing all of my own stunts. Anything. Even if they are telling me, 'No, no, no! You can't do that!' I'll do it. Like crashing my car through the gate, climbing up the building, kicking in a window... I love doing all of that stuff.

8

Jack Carroll

I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

9

Nancy Cartwright

Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I'd left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice - 'Hey, man, I'm Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?' The guard waved me through.

10

Sophie Kennedy Clark

It's not like they just open the gate to Hollywood and off you go - you earn your stripes. I worked ferociously hard even just to get an agent.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GATE»

Discover the use of gate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Abaddon's Gate: Book Three of the Expanse series

For generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity's great frontier.

James S. A. Corey, 2013

Opening the Dragon Gate: The Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard

This is the first English translation by noted writer Thomas Cleary of the authorized biography by two longtime disciples of this living master of the Dragon Gate branch of the Complete Reality school of Taoism, which integrated Buddhism ...

Chen Kaiguo, Zheng Shunchao, 1998

The Gate of Angels

Young Fred Fairly, a junior fellow at St. Angelicus College in 1912 Cambridge, falls in love with the dangerously mysterious Daisy, whom he awakens next to one morning after a freak accident

Penelope Fitzgerald, 1998

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have emerged as an attractive means of implementing logic circuits, providing instant manufacturing turnaround and negligible prototype costs.

Stephen D. Brown, Robert J. Francis, Jonathan Rose, 1992

The Gate of Days

While seeking the seven magical coins that will allow him to reach his father, who is trapped in the castle of Vlad Tepes, Sam Faulkner travels to such places as ancient Delphi, a Stone Age cave, and 1930s Chicago.

Guillaume Prevost, 2009

Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's ...

With a new Foreword by the author, this modern classic is "one of the few indispensable books about Hollywood" ("Newsweek").

Steven Bach, 1999

Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act

Gives the context of the law Analyzes the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 from a national perspective.

Andrew Gyory, 1998

FinFETs and Other Multi-Gate Transistors

Of all the existing multigate devices, the FinFET is the most widely known. FinFETs and Other Multi-Gate Transistors is dedicated to the different facets of multigate FET technology and is written by leading experts in the field.

J.-P. Colinge, 2007

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's gripping account of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street in October and November of 1988 is the story of deal makers and publicity flaks, of strategy meetings and society dinners, of boardrooms and bedrooms ...

Bryan Burrough, John Helyar, 2009

Strait is the Gate

"Strait is the Gate," first published in 1909 in France as "La Porte etroite," is a novel about the failure of love in the face of the narrowness of the moral philosophy of Protestantism.

André Gide, Andrew Moore, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gate is used in the context of the following news items.

Doyle Drive closure maintains traffic chokehold around Golden Gate …

The stretch of roadway just south of the Golden Gate Bridge closed at 10 p.m. Thursday and is scheduled to reopen at 5 a.m. Monday as crews ... «Contra Costa Times, Jul 15»

UFC 189 Gate and Attendance: Mendes vs. McGregor Breaks U.S. …

UFC president Dana White had anticipated a $7.1 million gate for UFC 189 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. When he ... «MMAWeekly, Jul 15»

EHX Announces the Silencer Noise Gate and 22500 Dual Stereo …

Silencer Noise Gate/Effects Loop. Nashville, TN (July 11, 2015) -- Responding to the needs of pedalboard users and players whose high gain ... «Premier Guitar, Jul 15»

Man shot, killed allegedly over gate in Simpson County

A man was found dead Thursday night on Murray Stingley Road in Simpson County. Simpson County Sheriff Kenneth Lewis said the Simpson ... «Hattiesburg American, Jul 15»

South Gate-Lynwood Gas Prices Spike - Patch

South Gate-Lynwood Gas Prices Spike. Check the map below for the best gas price in your town. By Mirna Alfonso (Patch Staff) July 11, 2015. «Patch.com, Jul 15»

GM Recalling Nearly 780K SUVs to Fix Power Lift Gate Problem

Dealers will replace faulty struts and update lift gate control motor software to prevent rapid closing. The company has not yet come up with a ... «KAKE, Jul 15»

Letter: USU's Romney-gate | Deseret News

I am a lifelong Aggie supporter (B.S., M.A., Old-Main Society, Alumni Council), but the university's shabby treatment of the Romney family and ... «Deseret News, Jul 15»

Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear Adds 25 Hours of Sword Coast …

The team at Beamdog that has created the Enhanced Editions for the two Baldur's Gate titles is announcing that the mysterious project it was ... «Softpedia News, Jul 15»

Greg Hardy's suspension reduction to deflate-gate level isn't reason …

This feels like a tremendous injustice, for obvious reasons. Brady's "crime" was largely victimless, hurting only a few peoples' feelings, and it ... «Yahoo Sports, Jul 15»

Collier deputies search for missing teen last seen in Golden Gate …

Collier deputies search for missing teen last seen in Golden Gate. Naples Daily News staff. 11:28 AM, Jul 11, 2015. Megan Morris was last seen on Friday, July ... «Naples Daily News, Jul 15»