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Pated vs Gated - What's the difference?

pated | gated |

As adjectives the difference between pated and gated

is that pated is having a pate; -- used only in composition; as, long-pated; shallow-pated, twitterpated while gated is capable of being switched on and off (normally by means of a signal).

As a verb gated is

(gate).

pated

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Having a pate; -- used only in composition; as, long-pated; shallow-pated, twitterpated.

    • Anagrams

    *adept *taped

    gated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (gate)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Capable of being switched on and off (normally by means of a signal).
  • Have a gate or other restricted access.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-27, volume=408, issue=8846, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Architectural bombast , passage=Gated , gilded and gaudy, they have sprung up all over China: overwrought government buildings erected at vast public expense, and in stark contrast to the shoddy state of so many homes and schools. In style they range from modernist brutalism to Versailles kitsch.}}