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Gated vs Gatted - What's the difference?

gated | gatted |

As verbs the difference between gated and gatted

is that gated is (gate) while gatted is (gat).

As an adjective gated

is capable of being switched on and off (normally by means of a signal).

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.}}

    gatted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (gat)

    • gat

    English

    Etymology 1

    From Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic, slang, in old westerns) A Gatling gun.
  • Any type of gun, usually a pistol.
  • * 1939 , .
    • You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.
  • * 1988 ,
    • Goin' off on a motherfucker like that
    With a gat that's pointed at yo ass

    Verb

    (gatt)
  • (slang) To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm.
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    • Etymology 2

    From (m), by shortening

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (New Zealand, slang) A guitar

    • Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (get)
    • And Abraham gat up early in the morning (Genesis 1927)

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