Gate vs. Door

Gate and Door Definitions
Gate
A structure that can be swung, drawn, or lowered to block an entrance or a passageway.
Door
A movable structure used to close off an entrance, typically consisting of a panel that swings on hinges or that slides or rotates.
Gate
An opening in a wall or fence for entrance or exit.
Door
A similar part on a piece of furniture or a vehicle.
Gate
The structure surrounding such an opening, such as the monumental or fortified entrance to a palace or walled city.
Door
A doorway.
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Gate
A doorway or walkway in a terminal, as at an airport, through which passengers proceed when embarking or disembarking.
Door
The room or building to which a door belongs:They live three doors down the hall.
Gate
A waiting area inside a terminal, abutting such a doorway or walkway.
Door
A means of approach or access:looking for the door to success.
Gate
A means of access
The gate to riches.
Door
(Slang)To strike (a passing bicyclist, for example) by suddenly opening a vehicular door.
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Gate
A mountain pass.
Door
To serve as a doorman or doorwoman of (a nightclub, for example).
Gate
The total paid attendance or admission receipts at a public event
A good gate at the football game.
Door
A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed, and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.
I knocked on the vice president's door
Gate
A device for controlling the passage of water or gas through a dam or conduit.
Door
Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
The 24 doors in an Advent calendar
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Gate
The channel through which molten metal flows into a shaped cavity of a mold.
Door
(immigration) An entry point.
Gate
(Sports) A passage between two upright poles through which a skier must go in a slalom race.
Door
(figurative) A means of approach or access.
Learning is the door to wisdom.
Gate
A logic gate.
Door
(figurative) A possibility.
To leave the door open
All doors are open to somebody
Gate
A path or way.
Door
(figurative) A barrier.
Keep a door on your anger.
Gate
A particular way of acting or doing; manner.
Door
A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
Gate
Chiefly British To confine (a student) to the grounds of a college as punishment.
Door
The proceeds from entrance fees and/or ticket sales at a venue such as a bar or nightclub, especially in relation to portion paid to the entertainers. "The bar owner gives each band a percentage of the door and charges customers more to get in"
Gate
(Electronics) To select part of (a wave) for transmission, reception, or processing by magnitude or time interval.
Door
To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.
Gate
To furnish with a gate
"The entrance to the rear lawn was also gated" (Dean Koontz).
Door
An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.
To the same end, men several paths may tread,As many doors into one temple lead.
Gate
A doorlike structure outside a house.
Door
The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened.
At last he came unto an iron doorThat fast was locked.
Gate
Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
Door
Passage; means of approach or access.
I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved.
Gate
Movable barrier.
The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
Door
An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads.
Martin's office is now the second door in the street.
A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult.
His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors.
If I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door.
Gate
Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
Door
A swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle;
He knocked on the door
He slammed the door as he left
Gate
A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
Door
The entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close;
He stuck his head in the doorway
Gate
The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
Door
Anything providing a means of access (or escape);
We closed the door to Haitian immigrants
Education is the door to success
Gate
(computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
Door
A structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road);
The office next door
They live two doors up the street from us
Gate
(electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
Door
A room that is entered via a door;
His office is the third door down the hall on the left
Gate
In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
Gate
(metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
Gate
The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
Gate
(cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out.
Gate
(cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
Gate
(flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
Gate
A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
Gate
A way, path.
Gate
(obsolete) A journey.
Gate
A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
Gate
Manner; gait.
Gate
(transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
Gate
(transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
Gate
To open a closed ion channel.
Gate
(transitive) To furnish with a gate.
Gate
(transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
Gate
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.
Gate
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.
Knowest thou the way to Dover?Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath.
Opening a gate for a long war.
Gate
A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
Gate
The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Gate
In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
Gate
The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.
Gate
A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).
I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate.
Gate
Manner; gait.
Gate
To supply with a gate.
Gate
To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.
Gate
A door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall
Gate
A computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
Gate
Total admission receipts at a sports event
Gate
Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
Gate
Supply with a gate;
The house was gated
Gate
Control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
Gate
Restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment