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

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
4. noun. The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
5. noun. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
6. noun. The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.
7. noun. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.
8. transitive verb. To supply with a gate.
9. transitive verb. To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.
10. noun. A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).
11. noun. Manner; gait.
12. noun. a movable barrier in a fence or wall
13. noun. a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
14. noun. passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
15. noun. total admission receipts at a sports event
16. verb. restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
17. verb. control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
18. verb. supply with a gate

    "The house was gated"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in gate:

aget, gaet, geat, geta, tega

Common word forms

gated, gater, gates, gating, gateless

Words from these letters

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