Gate vs Gauge - 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
A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
* 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence . p. 2.
* Burke
An act of measuring.
Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.
A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
(rail transport) The distance between the rails of a railway.
(mathematics, analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
(knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
To estimate.
To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
* Shakespeare
(textile) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
As a proper noun gate
is a town in oklahoma.As a noun gauge is
a measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.As a verb gauge is
to measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.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 ----gauge
English
(wikipedia gauge)Alternative forms
* gageNoun
(en noun)- The record of philosophy vis-à-vis silence is generally dismal, as good a gauge as any to its overall failure.
- the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt
- A vessel has the weather gauge''' of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee '''gauge when on the lee side of it.
- (Totten)
Derived terms
* broad gauge * Coulomb gauge * gauge boson * gauge field * gauge theory * lattice gauge theory * Lorentz gauge * narrow gauge * quantum gauge theory * rail gauge * rain gauge * standard gauge * Weyl gaugeVerb
(gaug)- You shall not gauge me / By what we do to-night.