gate

1. 1.

   supply with a gate

   “The house was gated”

   Broadersupply

   architecture

2. 2.

   control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate

   Broaderoperate
3. 3.

   restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment

   Broaderrestrict

Other forms of gate

plural

gates·

past tense

gated·

present participle

gating·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gate

What does gate mean?

gate means "a movable barrier in a fence or wall". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gate?

gate has 1 syllable: gate. In IPA it is /ˈɡeɪt/.

What is another word for gate?

Close synonyms include logic gate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gate a common word?

gate is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with gate?

28 words rhyme with gate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.