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- a hinged barrier used to close an opening in a wall, fence, or hedge门; 围墙门; 篱笆门。
1.1
- a gateway门口; 通道：
she went out through the gate.
她从大门走了出去。
1.2
- figurative a means of entrance or exit〈喻〉进出方法（途径、手段）：
they were opening the gates of their country wide to the enemy.
他们向敌人大开国门。
1.3
- an exit from an airport building to an aircraft（机场大楼）登机口：
a departure gate.
登机口。
1.4
- in names a mountain pass or other natural passage山口; 天然通道：
the Golden Gate.
金门。
2
- the number of people who pay to enter a sports ground for any one event（体育比赛购票）观众（数）：
as modifier gate receipts.门票收入。
2.1
- the money taken for admission门票收入。
3
- a device resembling a gate in structure or function, in particular（形状或功能像门的）装置, 尤指：
3.1
- a hinged or sliding barrier for controlling the flow of water（铰链或滑动的）水门, 水闸：
a sluice gate.
水闸。
3.2
- an arrangement of slots into which the gear lever of a motor vehicle moves to engage each gear（供变速杆移动定位的）H形滑槽.
3.3
- a device for holding each frame of a movie film in position behind the lens of a camera or projector（摄像机或放映机的）片门。
4
- an electric circuit with an output which depends on the combination of several inputs门（电路）：
a logic gate.
逻辑门。
4.1
- the part of a field-effect transistor to which a signal is applied to control the resistance of the conductive channel of the device（场效应晶体管）栅, 整流栅, 控制极。
- Brit.with obj. （一般作be gated）confine (a pupil or student) to school or college〈英〉将（学生）关在校内, 不准（学生）离校外出：
he was gated for the rest of term.
他这学期剩下的时间都不得离校。
短语
get（或 be given）the gate
- N. Amer. informal be dismissed from a job〈北美, 非正式〉被解雇。
词源
Old English gæt, geat, plural gatu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gat 'gap, hole, breach'.