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UK
/ɡˈeɪt/
]
[ US /ˈɡeɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈɡeɪt/ ]
VERB
- restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
- control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
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supply with a gate
The house was gated
NOUN
- a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
- a movable barrier in a fence or wall
- passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
- total admission receipts at a sports event
How To Use gate In A Sentence
- My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
- The magnificent 18 th-century mansion is set in private landscaped grounds at the edge of the town, opposite the golf links and West Sands but totally screened by trees, woods and 18-foot high lodge gates.
- From the combined results Thomas's group estimated an average particle size of 100 for the copper metal aggregates.
- This is Marshgate Lane, a 100% non-residential slice of East London, one solitary road cutting across the flood plain of the River Lea.
- For all the abuse, there are moments of unmitigated delight as well.
- When the Mexican chair of the meeting declared the talks formally closed there were whoops of delight from the African delegates.
- The mass media give little background, and what they do is carefully expurgated.
- Agates were apparently highly valued by the ancient Egyptians for their lapidary use and were mounted into gold with other precious stones such as lapis and emeralds.
- With its elongated snake-like body, the Leopard Moray eel moves very gently from one end to the other in the tank.
- Whilst not the first so to do but well before the bandwagon hove into view, I proposed that MPs expenses must be place in full, unexpurgated, unredacted beauty online as are those of MSPs by the Scottish Parliament. Where The Huntsman leads, the hounds follow
