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 |
Long-stop (n.) One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper. |
Lych gate () See under Lich. |
Sea-gate (n.) Alt. of Sea-gait |
Stop (v. t.) To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing |
Stop (v. t.) To obstruct |
Stop (v. t.) To arrest the progress of |
Stop (v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving |
Stop (v. t.) To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part. |
Stop (v. t.) To point, as a composition |
Stop (v. t.) To make fast |
Stop (v. i.) To cease to go on |
Stop (v. i.) To cease from any motion, or course of action. |
Stop (v. i.) To spend a short time |
Stop (n.) The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped |
Stop (n.) That which stops, impedes, or obstructs |
Stop (n.) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought. |
Stop (n.) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone |
Stop (n.) In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes |
Stop (n.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far. |
Stop (n.) A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses |
Stop (n.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses. |
Stop (n.) The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds. |
Stop (n.) Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc. |
Stop-gap (n.) That which closes or fills up an opening or gap |
Stop-over (a.) Permitting one to stop over |
Water gate () A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated. |
whistle-stop tour | a tour by a candidate as part of a political campaign in which a series of small towns are visited, in Truman crossed the country several times on his whistle-stop tours |
stop stopover layover | a brief stay in the course of a journey, they made a stopover to visit their friends |
night-stop | a break in a journey for the night |
pit stop | a brief stop at a pit during an automobile race to take on fuel or service the car |
pit stop | a stop during an automobile trip for rest and refreshment |
stop stoppage | the act of stopping something, the third baseman made some remarkable stops, his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood |
AND circuit AND gate | a circuit in a computer that fires only when all of its inputs fire |
arrival gate | gate where passengers disembark |
blockage block closure occlusion stop stoppage | an obstruction in a pipe or tube, we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe |
catch stop | a restraint that checks the motion of something, he used a book as a stop to hold the door open |
departure gate | gate where passengers embark |
diapason diapason stop | either of the two main stops on a pipe organ |
diaphragm stop | a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens, the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically |
flue stop | an organ stop with the tone of a flue pipe |
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 |
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 |
NAND circuit NAND gate | a logic gate that produces an output that is the inverse of the output of an AND gate |
OR circuit OR gate | a gate circuit in a computer that fires when any of its inputs fire |
organ stop | a graduated set of organ pipes of like tone quality |
pull-off rest area rest stop layby lay-by | designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily |
reed stop | an organ stop with the tone of a reed instrument |
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 |
stop | (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes, the organist pulled out all the stops |
stop bath short-stop short-stop bath | an acid bath used to stop the action of a developer |
stopwatch stop watch | a timepiece that can be started or stopped for exact timing (as of a race) |
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 |
truck stop | a roadside service station (and restaurant) that caters to truck drivers |
whistle stop flag stop way station | a small railway station between the principal stations or a station where the train stops only on a signal |
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 |
stop order stop-loss order | an order to a broker to sell (buy) when the price of a security falls (rises) to a designated level |
stop payment | a depositor's order to a bank to refuse payment on a check |
stop press | late news that is inserted into the newspaper at the last minute |
period point full stop stop full point | a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations, in England they call a period a stop |
stop consonant stop occlusive plosive consonant plosive speech sound plosive | a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it, his stop consonants are too aspirated |
labial stop | a stop consonant that is produced with the lips |
glottal stop glottal plosive glottal catch | a stop consonant articulated by releasing pressure at the glottis, as in the sudden onset of a vowel |
suction stop click | a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu) |
stop halt | the event of something ending, it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill |
bus stop | a place on a bus route where buses stop to discharge and take on passengers |
stop | a spot where something halts or pauses, his next stop is Atlanta |
Dipylon gate Dipylon | a gateway to the west of ancient Athens near which a distinctive style of pottery has been found |
Golden Gate | a strait in western California that connects the San Francisco Bay with the Pacific Ocean, discovered in by Sir Francis Drake |
prince's-feather princess feather kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate prince's-plume Polygonum orientale | annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers, southeastern Asia and Australia, naturalized in North America |