GATE, g[=a]t, _n._ a passage into a city, enclosure, or any large building:
a narrow opening or defile: a frame in the entrance into any enclosure: an
entrance.--_v.t._ to supply with a gate: at Oxford and Cambridge, to punish
by requiring the offender to be within the college gates by a certain
hour.--_adj._ G[=A]'TED, punished with such restriction.--_ns._ GATE'-FINE,
the fine imposed for disobedience to such orders; GATE'-HOUSE (_archit._),
a building over or near the gate giving entrance to a city, abbey, college,
&c.; GATE'-KEEP'ER, GATE'MAN, one who watches over the opening and shutting
of a gate.--_adj._ GATE'LESS, not having a gate.--_ns._ GATE'-MON'EY, the
money taken for entrance to an athletic or other exhibition, sometimes
simply 'gate;' GATE'-TOW'ER, a tower built beside or over a gate;
GATE'-VEIN, the great abdominal vein; GATE'WAY, the way through a gate: the
gate itself: any entrance.--GATE OF JUSTICE, a gate as of a city, temple,
&c., where a sovereign or judge sat to dispense justice; GATES OF DEATH, a
phrase expressing the near approach of death.--BREAK GATES, at Oxford and
Cambridge, to enter college after the prescribed hour; IVORY GATE, in
poetical imagery, the semi-transparent gate of the house of sleep, through
which dreams appear distorted into pleasant and delusive shapes; STAND IN
THE GATE (_B._), to occupy a position of defence. [A.S. _geat_, a way; Dut.
_gat_, Ice. _gat_; not in Goth. and High Ger.; prob. related to _get_ or
_gate_.]
GATE, g[=a]t, _n._ (_Scot._) a way, path: manner of doing, esp. in
adverbial phrases like 'this gate,' 'any gate,' 'some gate.' [Ice. _gata_;
Da. _gade_, Ger. _gasse_.]