Definition of Gate

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Definition of Gate

Gate

A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.

An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.

A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.

The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.

In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.

The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.

The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.

To supply with a gate.

To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.

A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).

Manner; gait.

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Gate Quotations

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Kahlil Gibran

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Kahlil Gibran

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
John Calvin

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.
Dylan Thomas

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. Tolkien

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
George MacDonald

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Gate Translations

gate in Afrikaans is deur
gate in Dutch is draaihek
gate in Finnish is ovi
gate in French is porte
gate in German is Sperre, Pforte, Gatter, Schranke, Tor, Tor
gate in Hungarian is kapu
gate in Italian is valvola, porta, stolto
gate in Latin is porta
gate in Norwegian is port, grind
gate in Portuguese is porta
gate in Spanish is paso, puerta, verja, portillo
gate in Swedish is port, grind

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