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gateway
English
Etymology
From gate +? way.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??e?t?we?/
Noun
gateway (plural gateways)
- An entrance capable of being blocked by use of a gate.
- A place regarded as giving access to somewhere.
- Any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another.
- A point at which freight moving from one territory to another is interchanged between transportation lines.
- (digital communications) In wireless internet, an access point with additional software capabilities such as providing NAT and DHCP, which may also provide VPN support, roaming, firewalls, various levels of security, etc.
Hyponyms
- (digital communication): default gateway
Related terms
- gateway drug
Translations
Verb
gateway (third-person singular simple present gateways, present participle gatewaying, simple past and past participle gatewayed)
- (transitive, digital communications) To make available via a gateway, or access point.
Anagrams
- get away, get-away, getaway, waygate
French
Etymology
From English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.tw?/
Noun
gateway m (plural gateways)
- (Internet) gateway
gateway From the web:
- what gateway to use
- what gateway does xfinity use
- what gateway means
- what gateway to use xbox one
- what gateway does shopify use
- what gateways work with xfinity
- what gateway does at&t fiber use
- what gateway in networking
duct
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ductus (“leading, conducting”, noun), from d?c? (“to lead, conduct, draw”) +? -tus (action noun suffix). Doublet of ductus and douit. Also via Medieval Latin ductus (“a conveyance of water; a channel”), which itself has the first mentioned etymology.
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?kt
- IPA(key): /d?kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
- Homophone: ducked
Noun
duct (plural ducts)
- a pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another
- Hyponym: air duct
- an enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs, telephone cables, or other conductors
- Hyponym: bus duct
- (anatomy) a vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile
- Hyponyms: bile duct, cochlear duct, collecting duct, cystic duct, duct of Wirsung, efferent duct, ejaculatory duct, epithelial duct, lacrimal duct, milk duct, Müllerian duct, nasolacrimal duct, pancreatic duct, paramesonephric duct, tear duct, thoracic duct, thyroglossal duct, utriculosaccular duct, Wolffian duct
- (botany) a tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air
- (physics) a layer (as in the atmosphere or the ocean) which occurs under usually abnormal conditions and in which radio or sound waves are confined to a restricted path
- (obsolete) guidance, direction
- 1650, Henry Hammond, Of the reasonableness of Christian religion
- […] otherwise to express His care and love to mankind, viz., in giving and consigning to them His written word for a rule and constant director of life, not leaving them to the duct of their own inclinations.
- 1650, Henry Hammond, Of the reasonableness of Christian religion
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
duct (third-person singular simple present ducts, present participle ducting, simple past and past participle ducted)
- to enclose in a duct
- to channel something (such as a gas) or propagate something (such as radio waves) through a duct or series of ducts
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- “duct”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “duct”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin ductus
Noun
duct n (uncountable)
- duct
Declension
duct From the web:
- what duct carries bile to and from the gallbladder
- what ductile means
- what ductility
- what duct empties into the duodenum
- what duct drains bile from the gallbladder
- what duct drains the gallbladder
- what duct is indicated in the figure
- what duct is cut in a cholecystectomy
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