Passageway vs Gateway - What's the difference?
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A covered walkway, between rooms or buildings.
* 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2
Any way for passing in, out or through something.
(senseid)An entrance capable of being blocked by use of a gate.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 Any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another.
A point at which freight moving from one territory to another is interchanged between transportation lines.
(digital communications) In wireless internet, an access point with additional software capabilities such as providing NAT and DHCP, which may also provide VPN support, roaming, firewalls, various levels of security, etc.
Passageway is a related term of gateway.
As nouns the difference between passageway and gateway
is that passageway is a covered walkway, between rooms or buildings while gateway is (senseid)an entrance capable of being blocked by use of a gate.As a verb gateway is
to make available via a gateway, or access point.passageway
English
Noun
(en noun)- The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway . David could hear the twins breathing in time with each other.
gateway
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(wikipedia gateway)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway , […].}}