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Gated vs Fated - What's the difference?

gated | fated |

As verbs the difference between gated and fated

is that gated is (gate) while fated is (rare) (fate).

As adjectives the difference between gated and fated

is that gated is capable of being switched on and off (normally by means of a signal) while fated is foreordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate.

gated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (gate)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Capable of being switched on and off (normally by means of a signal).
  • Have a gate or other restricted access.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-27, volume=408, issue=8846, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Architectural bombast , passage=Gated , gilded and gaudy, they have sprung up all over China: overwrought government buildings erected at vast public expense, and in stark contrast to the shoddy state of so many homes and schools. In style they range from modernist brutalism to Versailles kitsch.}}

    fated

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Foreordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (rare) (fate)

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