A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
1887, Harriet W. Daly,Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page246:
Lyons and Fisher's stations, who have spared nothing to ensure a success on this point, there is every reason to believe that the Northern Territory will soon be able to make a proper use of her geographical position, and become thegate of the East for all the Australian colonies.
The amount of money made by sellingtickets to aconcert or a sports event.
2023 March 16,John Boorman, “Today’s ‘films’ are nothing of the sort – so stop calling them that”, inThe Guardian[2],→ISSN:
After all, not using film has advantages other than cost: the curse of getting a hair in thegate (the rectangular opening at the front of a camera) is gone; the problem of getting dirt on the film swept away.
(flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
An individualtheme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
199305, Rich Mannino, “The World According to Disney”, inOrange Coast Magazine, page83:
It would encompass more than 500 acres and include a new theme park, several hotels, two mammoth parking garages with direct access from the freeway and a "thirdgate" — land set aside for future expansion.
2006 August 1, Shaun Finnie,The Disneylands That Never Were, Lulu.com,→ISBN, page168:
Disneyland opened its secondgate – Disney's California Adventure. It was located exactly where Westcot would have been, directly across a central plaza from the Disneyland maingate.
2008 December 9, James B. Stewart,Disneywar: The Battle for the Magic Kingdom, Simon and Schuster,→ISBN:
At Disneyland Paris, the much-delayed “secondgate,” a Walt Disney Studios theme park, opened on March 16.
2018 April 16, John Reynolds,Cambridge IGCSE First Language English 4th edition, Hachette UK,→ISBN:
For its part, Universal is also continuing to grow domestically, with its new secondgate in Orlando – Volcano Bay – opening around the same time as Pandora.
1996 April 24, “Connecticut: Task Force Successful In Curbing Street Gangs”, inOrganized Crime Digest, volume17, number 9, Annandale, V.A.: Washington Crime News Service,→OCLC,page 2, column 2:
The gangs were fighting for control of "druggates," control points for the sale of crack cocaine, heroin and marijuana.
I put more guns in East Coast niggas' hands than East Coast niggas did when they came out here. I put them niggas on to more weedgates and weed spots and safe havens and safe spots than the East Coast did.
2007, Paul Christopher Johnson,Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa, Berkeley, C.A.[…]:University of California Press,→ISBN,page56:
The spatial mapping of Jamaica onto U.S. cities entails the erection of dance halls, reggae clubs, smoking yards or "weedgates," select storefront vendors of Rasta apparel, ritual paraphernalia, andital ("natural" and approved) foods (Hepner 1998: 206).
He said, "Come on,gates, and jump with me / At the June Teenth Jamboree."
1944 December 8, “Broadway Jam Session”, inThe Tampa Times:
Louie wants you to get in there and lay yo' racket on that writin' machine so all the fine dinners andgates up in the land o' darkness will be hep and truck on down to this frolic pad 'cause the joint's really gonna be jumpin' and everythin' will be fine as wine like watermelon on the vine.
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“I’ve missed two lectures already,” remarked Maurice, who was breakfasting in his pyjamas. “Cut them all — he’ll onlygate you.”
2010, Thomas J. Schaeper, Kathleen Schaeper, “Yanks and Brits”, inRhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite, New York, NY:Berghahn Books,→ISBN, page52:
Dons could ring the front bell and be admitted after that hour. But students who returned after midnight or who stayed out all night were fined heavily or “gated” – that is, forbidden to leave college for several days.
2024 September 28, HarryBlank, “Not Ready for Prime Time”, inSCP Foundation[4], archived fromthe original on2 October 2024:
Lillian walked the halls wearing a shirt plastered with what she assured everyone was a memetic stun agent; it looked just like the kill agentgating access to the SCP-001 database file, but as she patiently explained to McInnis, in art, context is everything.
[…] nought regarding, they kept on theirgate, / And all her vaine allurements did forsake[…]
(Scotland,Northern England) Astreet; 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".
If hungur riſiþ in þe lond and peſtilence and ruſt and wynd diſtriynge cornes and a locuste and bꝛuke comeþ and if enemyes biſegen þeȝatis of þe citee aftir þat þe cuntreis ben diſtried and al veniaunce and ſikenesse oppꝛeſſiþ[…]
If hunger rises in the land, and pestilence, rust, wind, destroying grain, and locusts and their young come, and if enemies besiege a city'sgates after the city's surrounds are ruined, and when any destruction and disease oppresses (people)[…]
(figurative) A method or way of doing something or getting somewhere.
(figurative) Any kind of entrance or entryway; e.g. a crossing through mountains.
