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Ingate vs Inmate - What's the difference?

ingate | inmate |

As nouns the difference between ingate and inmate

is that ingate is (obsolete) entrance; ingress while inmate is a person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).

ingate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) entrance; ingress
    • Which hath in charge the ingate of the year. — Spenser.
  • (obsolete) The aperture in a mould for pouring in the metal; the gate.
    • (Simmonds)
    (Webster 1913)

    inmate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient)
  • A person who occupies or dwells within a dwelling-house. The word came to be used to refer to temporary inhabitants such as guests in a hotel, students in an on-campus dormitory, patients in a hospital, or prisoners.

    • Usage notes

    Perhaps around 1970, television journalists began to use the word as a euphemism for "prisoner", and today perhaps many young people cannot remember that it ever had any other meaning.

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