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gate
gate is a 4-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 18 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
- 4noun
The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
- 5noun
In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- 6noun
The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.
- 7noun
The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.
- 8transitive verb
To supply with a gate.
- 9transitive verb
To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.
- 10noun
A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).
- 11noun
Manner; gait.
- 12noun
a movable barrier in a fence or wall
- 13noun
a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
- 14noun
passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
- 15noun
total admission receipts at a sports event
- 16verb
restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
- 17verb
control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
- 18verb
supply with a gate
"The house was gated"
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