Gate vs Phase - 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.
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(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 distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.
That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.
Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view.
(astronomy) A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form, or the absence, of its enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets''. Illustrated in .
(physics) Any one point or portion in a recurring series of changes, as in the changes of motion of one of the particles constituting a wave or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side.
(chemistry) A component in a material system that is distinguished by chemical composition and/or physical state (solid, liquid or gas) and/or crystal structure. It is delineated from an adjoining phase by an abrupt change in one or more of those conditions.
(rugby union) The period of play between consecutive breakdowns.
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(genetics) A haplotype.
To begin—if construed with "in"—or to discontinue—if construed with out—(doing) something over a period of time (i.e. in phases).
(genetics, informal, transitive) To determine haplotypes in (data) when genotypes are known.
To pass into or through a solid object.
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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 [...].
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* * 1000 English basic words ----phase
English
Etymology 1
From ; compare phantasm and see face.Noun
(en noun)- The problem has many phases .
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Verb
(phas)- The use of the obsolete machines was gradually phased''' out as the new models were '''phased in.