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Gating vs Gate - What's the difference?

gating | gate |

As a verb gating

is .

As a noun gating

is an arrangement of gates.

As a proper noun gate is

a town in oklahoma.

gating

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An arrangement of gates.
  • * 1954 , Canadian Patent Office Record
  • said tumblers having gatings adapted for alignment so as to allow the outer pin to move entirely out of said cylinder groove as the inner pin moves into said tumbler gatings whereby to release said key plug for rotation.

    gate

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (senseid)A doorlike structure outside a house.
  • Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
  • Movable barrier.
  • The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
  • (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.
  • Synonyms
    * (computing) logic gate
    Derived terms
    * floodgate * gatekeeper * kissing gate * pearly gates * sluice gate

    Verb

  • 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.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) gata, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A way, path.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • 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 .
  • (obsolete) A journey.
  • * , II.xii:
  • nought regarding, they kept on their gate , / And all her vaine allurements did forsake [...].
  • (Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street.
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect, archaic) manner; gait
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