gate
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(verb) restrict movement to the dormitory or campus, of British schoolboys, as a means of punishment |
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Related Words: bound, confine, limit, restrain, restrict, throttle, trammel |
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(verb) control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate |
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Related Words: control, operate |
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(verb) supply with a gate: "The house was gated" |
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Related Words: furnish, provide, render, supply |
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(noun) a door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall |
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Related Words: Dipylon, Dipylon gate, head gate, lichgate, lock-gate, lychgate, movable barrier, portcullis, postern, tail gate, tailboard, tailgate, tollbar, tollgate, turnpike, turnstile, wicket, wicket door, wicket gate |
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(noun) a circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs |
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Related Words: and circuit, and gate, computer circuit, or circuit, or gate, x-or circuit, xor circuit, xor gate |
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(noun) total admission receipts at a sports event |
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Related Words: gross, receipts, revenue |
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