Gate vs Agate - What's the difference?
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(senseid)A doorlike structure outside a house.
Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
Movable barrier.
(computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and'', ''or'', ''nand , etc.
(cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
(flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
(electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
(metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
To ground someone.
(biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.Alberts, Bruce; et al. "Figure 11-21: The gating of ion channels." In: Molecular Biology of the Cell , ed. Senior, Sarah Gibbs. New York: Garland Science, 2002 [cited 18 December 2009]. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=mboc4&part=A1986&rendertype=figure&id=A2030.
To furnish with a gate.
To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.
A way, path.
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete) A journey.
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(Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street.
(UK, Scotland, dialect, archaic) manner; gait
(countable, uncountable, mineral) A semi-pellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
(uncountable, US, printing) 5.5-point size of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby.
(countable, obsolete) A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
(countable) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
(slang, usually in plural) A testicle.
(obsolete) On the way; agoing.
In obsolete terms the difference between gate and agate
is that gate is a journey while agate is on the way; agoing.As nouns the difference between gate and agate
is that gate is (door-like structure outside)A doorlike structure outside a house while agate is a semi-pellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.As a verb gate
is to keep something inside by means of a closed gate.As a proper noun Gate
is a town in Oklahoma.As an adverb agate is
on the way; agoing.gate
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)- The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
Synonyms
* (computing) logic gateDerived terms
* floodgate * gatekeeper * kissing gate * pearly gates * sluice gateVerb
Etymology 2
From (etyl) gata, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate .
- nought regarding, they kept on their gate , / And all her vaine allurements did forsake [...].
References
Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----agate
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) agathe, from (etyl) .Noun
Synonyms
* (printing) ruby (Britain)Hyponyms
* (mineralogy) fortification agate, Scotch pebble; moss agate, clouded agateDerived terms
* moss agate * agate line * agatewareEtymology 2
Adverb
(-)- to be agate'''; to set the bells '''agate
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