Gate (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Basic meaning 2 As a suffix 3 Media and entertainment 4 See also

[edit] Basic meaning

Originally, derived from an Old English word gat meaning a hole or opening, a gate is an opening in a wall or fence fitted with a moveable barrier allowing it to be closed. Derived immediately from this, the word can refer to:

• At an airport, a specified location for boarding or leaving an aircraft in an airport.
• In engineering generally, a movable structure used to control the flow of fluid in a pipe or channel
• On a canal, the watertight door that seals off a chamber of a lock
• In foundry or casting work, a channel which carries molten metal into a mold
• In the sport of rowing, a hinged bar which can be locked over the top of a rowlock to prevent the oar from coming out.

In high technology, by analogy (either from the basic meaning of a closeable opening, or from the engineering extension of it), come the following:

• An opening in the front of a motion picture camera
• A set of limits for data from a cytometer
• A terminal of a field effect transistor
• A logic gate, a functional building block in digital logic such as and, or, or not
• A noise gate, a high-quality audio squelch control for reducing background noise
• A range gate, the area encompassed by one pixel of radar data

[edit] As a suffix

Also derived from the basic meaning above, the suffix "-gate" can refer to:

• A part of a city in England near the historic location of a gate in the city walls, such as Aldgate or Moorgate in London
• In the word watergate, a gate across a water channel leading to a river, through which boats can pass only when the gate is opened.
• By imitation, alluding to the Watergate scandal, a public scandal associated with any name (to which the suffix "-gate" is attached); for example Baftagate and Monicagate. (See also List of scandals with "-gate" suffix).

Derived from another (Old English) word gat meaning "street" or "road", "-gate" in street names in England often denotes a Roman road; for example, Bishopgate in York.

[edit] Media and entertainment

• The Gate an entertainment centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
• The Gate, a novel by Natsume Sōseki
• The Gate (film), a 1987 horror movie starring Stephen Dorff
• "The Gate", the third track on the album Light & Shade by Mike Oldfield
• Gate (Mega Man), a Reploid doctor in the video game Mega Man X6
• Gåte, a Norwegian rock, metal, and folk band
• Gate of Alchemy in the Fullmetal Alchemist anime and manga

[edit] See also

• the acronym GATE
• Gating (punishment)
• Gate Petroleum - A southeast U.S. gas station franchise founded in Jacksonville, Florida
• Báb, which means "Gate" and is the title taken by the founder of Bábism
• General Architecture for Text Engineering, a human language processing system
• Gating system, a term used in casting