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Gatelike vs Gateline - What's the difference?

gatelike | gateline |

As an adjective gatelike

is resembling a gate or some aspect of one.

As a noun gateline is

a row of turnstiles allowing railway passengers to enter or exit on inserting a ticket.

gatelike

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Resembling a gate or some aspect of one.

    • gateline

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A row of turnstiles allowing railway passengers to enter or exit on inserting a ticket.
  • * 1993 , Great Britain. Dept. of Transport, Railway safety
    • for example, ticket office staff can now perform platform and gateline duties and vice versa.
  • * 2006 , Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee, Personal Passenger Safety in Railway Stations (page 16)
    • Over and above our contribution to the British Transport Police, we will employ an additional 12 Community Support Officers and we will install or extend ticket gatelines at five stations.
  • * 2010 , Stephanie Smith, Underground London
    • Provided you didn't surrender your ticket into the maw of the gateline at B, you could in theory go back to A and do the whole trip again.