📖 Definitions of "Gate"
noun
- 1
A doorlike structure outside a house.
- 2
Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- 3
Movable barrier.
"The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed."
- 4
A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
verb
- 1
To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- 2
To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
- 3
To open a closed ion channel.
- 4
To furnish with a gate.
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