Gateとは

意味・読み方・使い方

接尾辞

-gate

1. Combined with keywords to form the names of scandals.
   • 2009 June 22, Phillip Coorey and Annabel Crabb, in Sydney Morning Herald:

     The Australian Federal Police revealed this afternoon that the email that sparked the so-called Utegate controversy was faked.

使用する際の注意点

• Many of these terms are short-lived and few have long-lasting currency.

派生語

語源 2

From 古期英語 geat.

接尾辞

-gate

1. Used to form place names.

参照

• “-gate” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.

アナグラム

• EGTA, ETag, Geat, e-tag, geat, geta

語源 1

From Middle English gate, gat, ȝate, ȝeat, from 古期英語 gæt, gat, ġeat (“a gate, door”), from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”) (compare Old Norse gat, Swedish かつ Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt).

別の表記

• yate (廃れた用法 または dialectal)

名詞

gate (複数形 gates)

2. A doorlike structure outside a house.
3. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
4. Movable barrier.

   The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.

5. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
6. (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.

   Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out.

7. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
8. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
9. Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
10. (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
11. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
12. (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
13. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
14. (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
15. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.

同意語

• (コンピューター): logic gate
• (opening in a wall): doorway, entrance, passage

派生語

動詞

gate (三人称単数 現在形 gates, 現在分詞 gating, 過去形および過去分詞形 gated)

1. To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
2. To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.

   Synonym: ground

   • 1971, E. M. Forster, Maurice, Penguin, 1972, Chapter 13, p. 72,^[1]

     “I’ve missed two lectures already,” remarked Maurice, who was breakfasting in his pyjamas.

     “Cut them all — he’ll only gate you.”

3. (biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.^[1]
4. (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
5. (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.

語源 2

Borrowed from Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ. Cognate with Danish gade, Swedish gata, German Gasse (“lane”). Doublet of gait.

名詞

gate (複数形 gates)

1. (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
   • 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I, II, III, または IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, OCLC 819902302:

     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.

   • 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet

     "Stand out o' my gate, wife, for, d'ye see, I am rather in a haste, Jean Linton."

2. (obsolete) A journey.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XII:

     […] nought regarding, they kept on their gate, / And all her vaine allurements did forsake […]

3. (Scotland, Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
4. (Britain, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.

参照

アナグラム

• EGTA, ETag, Geat, e-tag, geat, geta