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(obsolete) The act of riding on horseback.
(obsolete) A hostile ride against a particular area; a raid.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.8:
(nautical, often, in the plural) A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor.
* 1630 , , True Travels , in Kupperman 1988, p. 38:
A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions.
* {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page=266
, passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road .}}
* , chapter=1
, title= (figuratively) A path chosen in life or career.
* Ronald Reagan: A Time for Choosing (1964).
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, tiutle= An underground tunnel in a mine.
(US) A railway; (British) a single railway track.
(obsolete) A journey, or stage of a journey.
* Shakespeare
(senseid)A doorlike structure outside a house.
Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
Movable barrier.
(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.
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.
A way, path.
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete) A journey.
* , II.xii:
(Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street.
(UK, Scotland, dialect, archaic) manner; gait
Road is a related term of gate.
As a noun road
is (obsolete) the act of riding on horseback.As a proper noun gate is
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English
(wikipedia road)Noun
(en noun)- There dwelt a salvage nation, which did live / Of stealth and spoile, and making nightly rode / Into their neighbours borders […].
- There delivering their fraught, they went to Scandaroone; rather to view what ships was in the Roade , than any thing else [...].
citation
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for.}}
- Where, then, is the road to peace?
Moldova 0-5 England, passage=Hodgson may actually feel England could have scored even more but this was the perfect first step on the road to Rio in 2014 and the ideal platform for the second qualifier against Ukraine at Wembley on Tuesday.}}
- With easy roads he came to Leicester.
Usage notes
Often used interchangeably with street or other similar words. When usage is distinguished, a road is a route between settlements (reflecting the etymological relation with ride), as in the from London to Edinburgh, while a street is a route within a settlement (city or town), strictly speaking paved.Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* A road, A-road * access road * all roads lead to Rome * B road * back road * bump in the road * burn up the road * byroad * C road * corduroy road * crossroad * down the road * end of the road * fork in the road * frontage road * Great North road * highroad/high road * hit the road * ice road * low road * main road * middle of the road/middle-of-the-road * nonroad * offroad/off-road * on the road * one for the road * pay-per-use road * Persian Royal Road * railroad * ring road * road allowance * road apple * road case * road export * road fund licence * road gang * road hockey * road hog/road-hog * road map * road movie * road race * road rage * road rash * road sign * road to Damascus * road train * road trip * road warrior * roadability * roadbase * roadbed * roadblock * roader * roadhouse * roadie * roadkill * roadless * roadness * roadroller * roadrunner * roadshow * roadside * roadstead * roadster * roadway * roadwork * roadworks * roadworthy * rocky road * service road * slip road/sliproad * take the high road * Tobacco Road * trunk road * where the rubber meets the road * winter road * yellow brick road/Yellow Brick RoadStatistics
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)- The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
Synonyms
* (computing) logic gateDerived terms
* floodgate * gatekeeper * kissing gate * pearly gates * sluice gateVerb
Etymology 2
From (etyl) gata, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
- nought regarding, they kept on their gate , / And all her vaine allurements did forsake [...].