different between opportunity vs gate

English

Etymology

opportune +? -ity, from Middle French opportunité, from Latin opportunitas

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p.??tju?.n?.t?/, /??p.??t??u?.n?.ti/
• (General American) enPR: ä'p?r-to?o?n?-t?, IPA^(key): /??p??tun?ti/
• Hyphenation: op?por?tu?ni?ty

Noun

opportunity (countable and uncountable, plural opportunities)

1. A chance for advancement, progress or profit.
2. A favorable circumstance or occasion.

3. (nonstandard, Euro-English) opportuneness

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• opportunity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• opportunity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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