different between opening vs gate

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?.p?.n??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.p?.n??/

Verb

opening

1. present participle of open

Derived terms

• eye-opening (adjective)

Noun

opening (plural openings)

1. An act or instance of making or becoming open.

   The daily openings of the day lily bloom gives it its name.

   He remembered fondly the Christmas morning opening of presents.

2. Something that is open.

   A salamander darted out of an opening in the rocks.

   He slipped through an opening in the crowd.

3. An act or instance of beginning.

   There have been few factory and store openings in the US lately.

   Their opening of the concert with Brass in Pocket always fires up the crowd.

4. Something that is a beginning.
   1. The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.

      They were disappointed at the turnout for their opening, but hoped that word would spread.

   2. The initial period a show at an art gallery or museum is first opened, especially the first evening.
   3. The first few measures of a musical composition.
   4. (chess) The first few moves in a game of chess.

      John spends two hours a day studying openings, and another two hours studying endgames.

5. A vacant position, especially in an array.

   Are there likely to be any openings on the Supreme Court in the next four years?

   1. A time available in a schedule.

      If you'd like to make a booking with us, we have an opening at twelve o'clock.

      The only two-hour openings for the hockey rink are between 1AM and 5AM.

   2. An unoccupied employment position.

      We have an opening in our marketing department.

6. An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
7. (mathematics) In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.

Synonyms

• (something that is open): hole, gap, crevice; see also Thesaurus:hole or Thesaurus:interspace
• (available time): availability, slot
• (unoccupied employment position): job opening

Coordinate terms

• (opening of an art show): vernissage

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ?????? (?puningu)

Translations

Adjective

opening (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the start or beginning of a series of events.

   The opening theme of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is, perhaps, the most recognizable in all of European art music.

   The opening act of the battle for Fort Sumter was the firing of a single 10-inch mortar round from Fort Johnson at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, by Lt. Henry S. Farley, who acted upon the command of Capt. George S. James, which round exploded over Fort Sumter as a signal to open the general bombardment from 43 guns and mortars at Fort Moultrie, Fort Johnson, the floating battery, and Cummings Point.

2. (cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing a batsman who opens the innings or a bowler who opens the attack

Derived terms

References

• “opening”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “opening” in the Collins English Dictionary
• “opening” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dutch

Etymology

From openen +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?p?n??/

Noun

opening f (plural openingen, diminutive openinkje n)

1. opening, gap
2. the act or process of being opened

Spanish

Noun

opening m (plural openings)

1. opening sequence; title sequence

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)

2. A doorlike structure outside a house.
3. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
4. Movable barrier.

   The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.

5. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
6. (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.

7. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
8. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
9. Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
10. (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
11. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
12. (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
13. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
14. (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
15. 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)

1. To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
2. 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.”

3. (biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.
4. (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
5. (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)

1. (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
2. (obsolete) A journey.
3. (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".
4. (Britain, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.

References

Anagrams

• EGTA, ETag, Geat, e-tag, geat, geta

Afrikaans

Noun

gate

1. plural of gat

Anjam

Noun

gate

1. 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)

1. airport gate

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English Watergate.

Noun

gate m (plural gates, diminutive gatetje n)

1. (in compounds) scandal

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French gâter (“to spoil”).

Verb

gate

1. spoil

Mauritian Creole

Etymology 1

From English gate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?t/

Noun

gate

1. gate
2. entrance door

Etymology 2

From French gâté (“pampered”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ate/

Noun

gate

1. darling, sweetheart

   Synonym: cheri

Adjective

gate

1. spoilt
2. 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)

2. An entryway or entrance to a settlement or building; a gateway.
3. A gate (door barring an entrance or gap in a fence)

4. (figuratively) A method or way of doing something or getting somewhere.
5. (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)

2. A way, path or avenue; a trail or route.
3. A voyage, adventure or leaving; one's course on the road.
4. The way which one acts; one's mode of behaviour:
   1. A way or procedure for doing something; a method.
   2. A moral or religious path; the course of one's life.
   3. (Late ME) One's lifestyle or demeanour; the way one chooses to act.
   4. (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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. (electronics) gate (circuit that implements a logical operation)

   Synonym: (more common) porta

Etymology 2

Noun

gate m (plural gates)

1. (India) mountain

   Synonyms: monte, montanha

Etymology 3

Verb

gate

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of gatar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of gatar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of gatar
4. 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)

1. street, way, road, path

Ternate

Etymology

Compare Tidore gate.

Noun

gate

1. heart
2. liver

Synonyms

• nyinga

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001). A Descriptive Study of the Language of Ternate, the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia. University of Pittsburgh