n A doorlike structure outside a house.
n Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
n Movable barrier.
n Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
n A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
n The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
n (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
n (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
n In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
n (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
n The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
n (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
n (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
n (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
n A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
v (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
v (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
v (transitive, biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.
v (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
v (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
n (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
n (obsolete) A journey.
n (Scotland, Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
n (Britain, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.
n A ghost town in Scott County, Arkansas, United States.
n A tiny town in Beaver County, Oklahoma, United States.
n An unincorporated community in Thurston County, Washington, United States.
n (education, initialism) gifted and talented education