Gate

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1. Noun

A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.

2. Noun

An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.

3. Noun

A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.

4. Noun

The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.

5. Noun

In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.

6. Noun

The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.

7. Noun

The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.

8. Verb

To supply with a gate.

9. Verb

To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.

10. Noun

A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).

11. Noun

Manner; gait.

12. Noun

a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
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