Avant-guard
(n.) The van or advanced body of an army. See Vanguard. |
Axle guard
() The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically |
Castle-guard
(n.) The guard or defense of a castle. |
Castle-guard
(n.) A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it |
Castle-guard
(n.) A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time. |
Controller
(n.) One who, or that which, controls or restraines |
Controller
(n.) An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts. |
Controller
(n.) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged. |
Entry
(n.) The act of entering or passing into or upon |
Entry
(n.) The act of making or entering a record |
Entry
(n.) That by which entrance is made |
Entry
(n.) The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods |
Entry
(n.) The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them. |
Entry
(n.) A putting upon record in proper form and order. |
Entry
(n.) The act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary. |
Gate
(n.) A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc. |
Gate
(n.) An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier |
Gate
(n.) A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc. |
Gate
(n.) The places which command the entrances or access |
Gate
(n.) In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into. |
Gate
(n.) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold |
Gate
(n.) The waste piece of metal cast in the opening |
Gate
(v. t.) To supply with a gate. |
Gate
(v. t.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual. |
Gate
(n.) A way |
Gate
(n.) Manner |
Guard
(n.) To protect from danger |
Guard
(n.) To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like. |
Guard
(n.) To protect the edge of, esp. with an ornamental border |
Guard
(n.) To fasten by binding |
Guard
(v. i.) To watch by way of caution or defense |
Guard
(v. t.) One who, or that which, guards from injury, danger, exposure, or attack |
Guard
(v. t.) A man, or body of men, stationed to protect or control a person or position |
Guard
(v. t.) One who has charge of a mail coach or a railway train |
Guard
(v. t.) Any fixture or attachment designed to protect or secure against injury, soiling, or defacement, theft or loss |
Guard
(v. t.) That part of a sword hilt which protects the hand. |
Guard
(v. t.) Ornamental lace or hem protecting the edge of a garment. |
Guard
(v. t.) A chain or cord for fastening a watch to one's person or dress. |
Guard
(v. t.) A fence or rail to prevent falling from the deck of a vessel. |
Guard
(v. t.) An extension of the deck of a vessel beyond the hull |
Guard
(v. t.) A plate of metal, beneath the stock, or the lock frame, of a gun or pistol, having a loop, called a bow, to protect the trigger. |
Guard
(v. t.) An interleaved strip at the back, as in a scrap book, to guard against its breaking when filled. |
Guard
(v. t.) A posture of defense in fencing, and in bayonet and saber exercise. |
Guard
(v. t.) An expression or admission intended to secure against objections or censure. |
Guard
(v. t.) Watch |
Guard
(v. t.) The fibrous sheath which covers the phragmacone of the Belemnites. |
Installation
(n.) The act of installing or giving possession of an office, rank, or order, with the usual rites or ceremonies |
Installation
(n.) The whole of a system of machines, apparatus, and accessories, when set up and arranged for practical working, as in electric lighting, transmission of power, etc. |
Lych gate
() See under Lich. |
Sea-gate
(n.) Alt. of Sea-gait |
entrance
entering
entry
ingress
incoming | the act of entering, she made a grand entrance |
introduction debut
first appearance
launching unveiling
entry | the act of beginning something new, they looked forward to the debut of their new product line |
installation
installing
installment
instalment | the act of installing something (as equipment), the telephone installation took only a few minutes |
single entry
single-entry bookkeeping | a simple bookkeeping system, transactions are entered in only one account |
double entry
double-entry bookkeeping | bookkeeper debits the transaction to one account and credits it to another |
| guard | a position on a basketball team |
| guard | (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, guards must be good blockers |
guard duty
guard sentry duty
sentry go | the duty of serving as a sentry, he was on guard that night |
precaution
safeguard
guard | a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc., he put an ice pack on the injury as a precaution, an insurance policy is a good safeguard, we let our guard down |
| guard hair | coarse hairs that form the outer fur and protect the underfur of certain mammals |
watchdog
guard dog | a dog trained to guard property |
AND circuit
AND gate | a circuit in a computer that fires only when all of its inputs fire |
arm guard
arm pad | a pad worn by football players and hockey goalkeepers |
| arrival gate | gate where passengers disembark |
| bumper guard | vertical bars attached to a bumper to prevent locking bumpers with another vehicle |
cattle guard
cattle grid | a bridge over a ditch consisting of parallel metal bars that allow pedestrians and vehicles to pass, but not cattle |
control
controller | a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine, the speed controller on his turntable was not working properly, I turned the controls over to her |
| departure gate | gate where passengers embark |
| disk controller | (computer science) a circuit or chip that translates commands into a form that can control a hard disk drive |
entrance
entranceway
entryway
entry
entree | something that provides access (to get in or get out), they waited at the entrance to the garden, beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral |
| face guard | face mask consisting of a strong wire mesh on the front of football helmets |
facility
installation | a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry, the assembly plant is an enormous facility |
fob
watch chain
watch guard | short chain or ribbon attaching a pocket watch to a man's vest |
| gate | a movable barrier in a fence or wall |
| gate logic gate | a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs |
| gate | passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark |
| Golden Gate Bridge | a suspension bridge across the Golden Gate |
guard
safety
safety device | a device designed to prevent injury or accidents |
| guard boat | a boat that is on guard duty (as in a harbor) around a fleet of warships |
| guard ship | a warship (at anchor or under way) required to maintain a higher degree of readiness than others in its squadron |
| guard's van | the car on a train that is occupied by the guard |
| head gate | a gate upstream from a lock or canal that is used to control the flow of water at the upper end |
| lock-gate | a gate that can be locked |
| military installation | any facility servicing military forces |
mudguard
splash guard
splash-guard | a curved piece above the wheel of a bicycle or motorcycle to protect the rider from water or mud thrown up by the wheels |
NAND circuit
NAND gate | a logic gate that produces an output that is the inverse of the output of an AND gate |
naval installation
shore station | military installation servicing naval forces |
OR circuit
OR gate | a gate circuit in a computer that fires when any of its inputs fire |
shin guard
shinpad | a stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins |
sluicegate
sluice valve
floodgate
penstock head gate water gate | regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice |
starting gate
starting stall | a movable barrier on the starting line of a race course |
| tail gate | a gate downstream from a lock or canal that is used to control the flow of water at the lower end |
threshold element
threshold gate | a logic element that performs a threshold operation |
wicket wicket door
wicket gate | small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door) |
X-OR circuit
XOR circuit
XOR gate | gate for exclusive OR, a circuit in a computer that fires only if only one of its inputs fire |
| guard | a posture of defence in boxing or fencing, keep your guard up |
| right of entry | the legal right to take possession of real estate in a peaceable manner |
| right of re-entry | the legal right to resume possession (a right that was reserved when a former possession was parted with) |
citation form
main entry word
entry word | the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary |
lexical entry
dictionary entry | the entry in a dictionary of information about a word |