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PRONUNCIATION OF WATER GATE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WATER GATE

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Water gate is 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.

WHAT DOES WATER GATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

water gate

Watergate (architecture)

A watergate is a fortified gate, leading directly from a castle or town wall directly on to a quay, river side or harbour. In mediaeval times it enabled people and supplies to reach the castle or fortification directly from the water, and equally allowed those within the castle direct access to water transport.

Definition of water gate in the English dictionary

The definition of water gate in the dictionary is a gate in a canal, leat, etc that can be opened or closed to control the flow of water. Other definition of water gate is a gate through which access may be gained to a body of water.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WATER GATE

water divining
water dog
water down
water dropwort
water feature
water filter
water flea
water fountain
water gap
water gas
water gauge
water glass
water gum
water gun
water hammer
water heater
water hemlock
water hen
water hog
water hole

WORDS THAT END LIKE WATER GATE

alley gate
AND gate
departure gate
exclusive OR gate
gate
head gate
in the aggregate
investigate
kissing gate
lich gate
lock gate
lych gate
NAND gate
navigate
NOR gate
NOT gate
OR gate
starting gate
tail gate
Taranaki gate

Synonyms and antonyms of water gate in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «water gate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WATER GATE

Find out the translation of water gate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of water 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 «water gate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

水门
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

puerta de las Aguas
570 millions of speakers

English

water gate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पानी फाटक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بوابة المياه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ворота воды
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

porta das águas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জল গেট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

porte de l´eau
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pintu air
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schleusentor
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

水門
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

수문
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gapura banyu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cửa nước
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நீர் வாயில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पाणी प्रवेशद्वार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Su kapısı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cancello di acqua
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Wodna brama
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ворота води
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

poarta de apă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πύλη του νερού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

water hek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vatten gate
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Vannporten
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of water gate

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WATER GATE»

The term «water gate» is regularly used and occupies the 76.673 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WATER GATE» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WATER GATE»

Discover the use of water gate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to water gate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Wiersbe Bible Commentary: Old Testament
If the Fountain Gate reminds us of the Spirit of God, the Water Gate reminds us of the Word of God. In fact, it was at the Water Gate that Ezra and the priests conducted a great "Bible conference" and explained the Scriptures to the people (8: Iff.).
Warren W. Wiersbe
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The siege of Jerusalem by Titus, with the journal of a ...
the Water Gate was an eastern gate ; for ' eastward ' means only that the company, having started from the Valley Gate on the west, paraded eastward as far as the Water Gate. The Water Gate was properly the most eastern of the three  ...
Thomas Lewin, emperor Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus, 1863
3
Golden Jerusalem
The Water Gate This gate is mentioned in Nehemiah in, 26: "Now the Nethinim dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that standeth out" (See also Nehemiah vm, 1, 3). Nehemiah vm, 16 ...
Menashe Har-El, 2004
4
Baroque Garden Cultures: Emulation, Sublimation, Subversion
Old Cao Gate O StSH Old Song Gate Universal Satvation Water Gate Expanding Benefit Water Gate West Water Gate Universai Abundance Water Gate Wuzhang River Water Gate Sharpening Benef,t Water Gate East Water Gate Bian River ...
Michel Conan, Dumbarton Oaks, 2005
5
Genesis through Revelation
WATER GATE As we read down through this chapter, we come to the seventh gate. Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that lieth out [Neh. 3:26]. The water gate was ...
Vernon McGee, 1984
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The Siege of Jerusalem by Titus. With the Journal of a ...
Thomas LEWIN (Barrister-at-Law). the Water Gate was an eastern gate; for ' eastward' means only that the company, having started from the Valley Gate on the west, paraded eastward as far as the Water Gate. The Water Gate was properly ...
Thomas LEWIN (Barrister-at-Law), 1863
7
Evolution of Water Supply Through the Millennia
Examples of preserved water gates are the East water gate of Nanjing (see Figure 8.8, Section 8.2.5) and the unique double water gate of Suzhou (Figure 8.41). In 1990, the biggest water gate ever discovered was accidentally found during ...
Andreas Nikolaos Angelakis, Larry W. Mays, Demetris Koutsoyiannis, 2012
8
The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, ...
... is somewhat attackable ; two ravelins, and a half-moon, consecutively, in the distance between the right of the Bartemont-gate, and the Water-gate, where the river goes out of the town, towards the North-west, where he began his course.
William Oldys, John Malham, 1810
9
The Harleian miscellany; or, A collection of ... pamphlets ...
... towards the West, where, likewise, the ground rising a little, the town is somewhat attackable; two ravelins, and a half-moon, consecutively, in the distance between the right of the Bartemont-gate, and the Water-gate, where the river goes out ...
Harleian miscellany, John Malham, William Oldys, 1810
10
A survey of London
Gate at the Bridge Gate burned. Buttolph s gate. — Billingsgate. Water-gate by the Custom House. mentioned by W. Fitzstephen ; which gate being new * made, when the bridge was built of stone, hath been oftentimes since repaired. This gate ...
John Stow, William John Thoms, 1842

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