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Mating vs Gating - What's the difference?

mating | gating |

As nouns the difference between mating and gating

is that mating is (zoology) pairing of organisms for copulation while gating is an arrangement of gates.

As verbs the difference between mating and gating

is that mating is while gating is .

As an adjective mating

is fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.

mating

English

(wikipedia mating)

Adjective

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  • Fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) Pairing of organisms for copulation.
  • * 1981 , Henry Foster, The Mouse in Biomedical Research (page 96)
    • The progeny of backcrosses and intercrosses will form some incrosses and some matings of other types.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
    • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}

    Synonyms

    * pairing

    Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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    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.