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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A doorlike structure outside a house.
  • computing A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are ''and'', ''or'', ''nand'' etc.
  • Northern England A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street.
  • now|_|Scotland|northern|_|UK A way, path.
  • cricket The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
  • Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
  • (''flow cytometry'') A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
  • Movable barrier.
  • obsolete A journey.
  • The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.

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Verb:

  • biochemistry To open a closed ion channel.Alberts, Bruce; et al. "Figure 11-21: The gating of ion channels." In: ''Molecular Biology of the Cell'', ed. Senior, Sarah Gibbs. New York: Garland Science, 2002 [cited 18 December 2009]. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=mboc4&part=A1986&rendertype=figure&id=A2030.
  • To ground someone.
  • To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.

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