Gate (disambiguation)

Gate (disambiguation)

A gate is an opening in a wall or fence fitted with a moveable barrier allowing it to be closed.

Gate may also refer to:
*Gate (airport), a specified location for boarding or leaving an aircraft in an airport
*Gate (engineering) a movable structure used to control the flow of fluid in a pipe or channel
*Gate (water transport), the watertight door that seals off a chamber of a lock
*Gate (molding), a channel which carries molten metal into a mold
*Gate (rowing), a hinged bar which can be locked over the top of a rowlock to prevent the oar from coming out
*Gate (solitaire), a solitaire card game
*Film gate, the opening in the front of a motion picture camera
*Gate (cytometry), a set of limits for data from a cytometer
*Gate (transistor), terminal of a field effect transistor
*Logic gate, a functional building block in digital logic such as "and", "or", or "not"
*Noise gate, a high-quality audio squelch control for reducing background noise
*Range gate, the area encompassed by one pixel of radar data
*Gate valve, a valve that opens by lifting a wedge out of the path of the fluid

As a suffix

*-gate, common suffix for a public scandal, alluding to the Watergate scandal
*A part of a city in England near the historic location of a gate in the city walls, such as Moorgate in London
*Certain street names in England, from the word for Roman road; for example, Bishopgate in York

Media and entertainment

*The Gate, Newcastle an entertainment centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
*Gate Theatre, in Dublin
*"The Gate", a novel by Natsume Sōseki
*"Gate of Alchemy" in the "Fullmetal Alchemist" anime and manga
*"The Gate" (film), a 1987 horror movie starring Stephen Dorff
*"The Gate", the third track on the album "Light & Shade" by Mike Oldfield
*Gate ("Mega Man"), a Reploid doctor in the video game "Mega Man X6"
*"Gate 88", a multiplayer action video game
*Gåte, a Norwegian rock, metal, and folk band
*"Gate 49", a song by Stiff Little Fingers
* The Gates, an art installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in Central Park in New York City

Places

* Gate, Oklahoma
* Gate City, Virginia
* Gate District, St. Louis

ee also

* GATE, the acronym
* General Architecture for Text Engineering, a human language processing system
* Gates (disambiguation)
* Gating (punishment)
* Gate Petroleum,a U.S. gas station franchise founded in Jacksonville, Florida
* Gate Studios, a British film studio in operation from 1928 to the early 1950's
* Báb, which means "Gate" and is the title taken by the founder of Bábism


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