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Gate vs Door - What's the difference?

gate | door |

As nouns the difference between gate and door

is that gate is (door-like structure outside)A doorlike structure outside a house while door is a {{l/en|portal}} of entry into a building, room or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a {{l/en|hinge}}. Doors are frequently made of {{l/en|wood}} or {{l/en|metal}}. May have a {{l/en|handle}} to help open and close, a {{l/en|latch}} to hold the door closed, and a {{l/en|lock}} that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.

As verbs the difference between gate and door

is that gate is to keep something inside by means of a closed gate while door is to cause a {{l/en|collision}} by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an {{l/en|oncoming}} {{l/en|cyclist}} or {{l/en|pedestrian}}.

As a proper noun Gate

is a town in Oklahoma.

gate

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ).

Noun

(en noun)
  • (senseid)A doorlike structure outside a house.
  • Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
  • Movable barrier.
  • The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
  • (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.
  • Synonyms
    * (computing) logic gate
    Derived terms
    * floodgate * gatekeeper * kissing gate * pearly gates * sluice gate

    Verb

  • 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.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) gata, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A way, path.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • 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 .
  • (obsolete) A journey.
  • * , II.xii:
  • nought regarding, they kept on their gate , / And all her vaine allurements did forsake [...].
  • (Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street.
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect, archaic) manner; gait
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    door

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly,
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=20 citation , passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}
  • Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
  • A non-physical into the next world, a particular feeling, a company, etc.
  • (computing, dated) A . See (BBS door).
  • Meronyms

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    Derived terms

    * at death's door * darken someone's door * door brake * doorgame * door prize * doorstep * front door * get one's foot in the door * show somebody the door * shut the door on * sliding door * stage-door Johnny * up and over door *

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (cycling) To cause a .
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