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access
English
Etymology 1
- First attested in the early 14th century.
- (entrance): First attested about 1380.
- From Middle English accesse, acces, from Middle French acces (“attack, onslaught”) or from its source Latin accessus, perfect passive participle of acc?d? (“approach; accede”), from ad (“to, toward, at”) + c?d? (“move, yield”). Doublet of accessus.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?æks?s/
- (General American) enPR: ?k?s?s', IPA(key): /?æk?s?s/
- Hyphenation: ac?cess
Noun
access (countable and uncountable, plural accesses)
- (uncountable) A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- All access was thronged.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- (uncountable) The act of approaching or entering; an advance.
- (uncountable) The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.
- (uncountable) The quality of being easy to approach or enter.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet Act 2 Scene 1
- I did repel his fetters, and denied His access to me. - Shakespeare, Hamlet, II-i
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet Act 2 Scene 1
- (uncountable) Admission to sexual intercourse.
- 1760s, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England
- During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown.
- 1760s, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England
- (archaic, countable) An increase by addition; accession
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- I, from the influence of thy looks, receive access in every virtue.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- (countable) An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.
- The first access looked like an apoplexy.
- (countable) An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion
- 1946, Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History (Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by D.C. Somervell)
- It appears that, about the middle of the fourth century of the Christian Era, the Germans in the Roman service started the new practice of retaining their native names; and this change of etiquette, which seems to have been abrupt, points to a sudden access of self-confidence and self-assurance in the souls of the barbarian personnel which had previously been content to 'go Roman' without reservations.
- 1946, Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History (Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by D.C. Somervell)
- (uncountable, law) The right of a noncustodial parent to visit their child.
- (uncountable, computing) The process of locating data in memory.
- (uncountable, networking) Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.
Usage notes
- (outburst, paroxysm): sometimes confused with excess.
Derived terms
- access day
- direct access
- random access
- remote access
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
- First attested in 1962.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?æks?s/, /?k?s?s/
- (General American) enPR: ?k?s?s', ?k-s?s?, IPA(key): /?æk?s?s/, /?k?s?s/
- Hyphenation: ac?cess
Verb
access (third-person singular simple present accesses, present participle accessing, simple past and past participle accessed)
- (transitive) To gain or obtain access to.
- (transitive, computing) To have access to (data).
- I can't access most of the data on the computer without a password.
Translations
References
- access in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- access in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- access at OneLook Dictionary Search
- access in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
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gate
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English gate, gat, ?ate, ?eat, from Old English gæt, gat, ?eat (“a gate, door”), from Proto-Germanic *gat? (“hole, opening”) (compare Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt).
Alternative forms
- yate (obsolete or dialectal)
Noun
gate (plural gates)
- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- Movable barrier.
- The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
- (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
- (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
Synonyms
- (computing): logic gate
- (opening in a wall): doorway, entrance, passage
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
gate (third-person singular simple present gates, present participle gating, simple past and past participle gated)
- To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
- Synonym: ground
- 1971, E. M. Forster, Maurice, Penguin, 1972, Chapter 13, p. 72,[1]
- “I’ve missed two lectures already,” remarked Maurice, who was breakfasting in his pyjamas.
- “Cut them all — he’ll only gate you.”
- (biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.
- (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
- (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatw?. Cognate with Danish gade, Swedish gata, German Gasse (“lane”). Doublet of gait.
Noun
gate (plural gates)
- (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
- (obsolete) A journey.
- (Scotland, Northern England) 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".
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.
References
Anagrams
- EGTA, ETag, Geat, e-tag, geat, geta
Afrikaans
Noun
gate
- plural of gat
Anjam
Noun
gate
- head
References
- Robert Rucker, Anjam Organised Phonology Data (2000), p. 2
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English gate.
Noun
gate m (plural gates, diminutive gatetje n)
- airport gate
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English Watergate.
Noun
gate m (plural gates, diminutive gatetje n)
- (in compounds) scandal
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French gâter (“to spoil”).
Verb
gate
- spoil
Mauritian Creole
Etymology 1
From English gate
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?t/
Noun
gate
- gate
- entrance door
Etymology 2
From French gâté (“pampered”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ate/
Noun
gate
- darling, sweetheart
- Synonym: cheri
Adjective
gate
- spoilt
- stale, expired
Etymology 3
From French gâter
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ate/
Verb
gate (medial form gat)
- to spoil, ruin
- Synonyms: abime, rwine
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English ?eat, ?et, gat, from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gat?.
Alternative forms
- gat, yeate, yate, ?at, ?æt, ?eat, ?ate, ?et, ?hate
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?t/, /?at/, /j?t/, /jat/, /ja?t/
Noun
gate (plural gates or gaten or gate)
- An entryway or entrance to a settlement or building; a gateway.
- A gate (door barring an entrance or gap in a fence)
- (figuratively) A method or way of doing something or getting somewhere.
- (figuratively) Any kind of entrance or entryway; e.g. a crossing through mountains.
Derived terms
- flodegate
- Newgate
Descendants
- English: gate, yate
- Scots: yett, yet, ?ett, ?et
- Yola: gaaute
- ? Middle Irish: *geta
- Irish: geata
- Manx: giat
- Scottish Gaelic: geata
- ? Welsh: gât, giât, iet
References
- “g?te, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-12.
Etymology 2
From Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatw?.
Alternative forms
- gat, gatt, gatte, gait
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??a?t(?)/, /??at(?)/
Noun
gate (plural gates)
- A way, path or avenue; a trail or route.
- A voyage, adventure or leaving; one's course on the road.
- The way which one acts; one's mode of behaviour:
- A way or procedure for doing something; a method.
- A moral or religious path; the course of one's life.
- (Late ME) One's lifestyle or demeanour; the way one chooses to act.
- (Late ME) Gait; the way one walks.
Descendants
- English: gate, gait
- Scots: gate
References
- “g??te, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-12.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse gata
Noun
gate f or m (definite singular gata or gaten, indefinite plural gater, definite plural gatene)
- a street
Derived terms
References
- “gate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse gata
Noun
gate f (definite singular gata, indefinite plural gater, definite plural gatene)
- a street
Derived terms
References
- “gate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English gate.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /??ejt??/
Noun
gate m (plural gates)
- (electronics) gate (circuit that implements a logical operation)
- Synonym: (more common) porta
Etymology 2
Noun
gate m (plural gates)
- (India) mountain
- Synonyms: monte, montanha
Etymology 3
Verb
gate
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of gatar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of gatar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of gatar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of gatar
Scots
Alternative forms
- gait
- gjet (sco, Shetland)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Norse gata.
Noun
gate (plural gates)
- street, way, road, path
Ternate
Etymology
Compare Tidore gate.
Noun
gate
- heart
- liver
Synonyms
- nyinga
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001). A Descriptive Study of the Language of Ternate, the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia. University of Pittsburgh
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