Stargate vs Gate - What's the difference?
stargate | gate |
(neologism, scifi) A hypothetical device consisting of a traversable portal (typically a wormhole) that can send one to another location light years away nearly instantaneously.
* 2000 , David Hatcher Childress, Technology of the Gods
* 2001 , William R Alschuler, Howard Zimmerman, The Science of UFOs
* 2002 , Richard Leviton, The Galaxy on Earth: A Traveler's Guide to the Planet's Visionary Geography
* 2003 , Albert A Harrison, After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life
* 2004 , Stephanie Relfe, The Mars Force Book 2
(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.
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(Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street.
(UK, Scotland, dialect, archaic) manner; gait
As a noun stargate
is (neologism|scifi) a hypothetical device consisting of a traversable portal (typically a wormhole) that can send one to another location light years away nearly instantaneously.As a proper noun gate is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- Find examples of stargates and wormholes in the ancient world...
- Perhaps the first clear depiction of a stargate is to be found in Robert Heinlein's classic novel Tunnel in the Sky ...
- A stargate' takes you to that star or constellation. ... The opening of a ' stargate requires the participation of the Archangel Michael...
- At some point it might be possible to devise a "stargate" such as depicted in the movies 2001: A Space Odyssey'' and ''Stargate ...
- With a stargate', travel is instantaneous. It is quite possible that the secret government either has a ' stargate or is trying to get one.
Synonyms
* teleporterAnagrams
*gate
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 [...].
