noun

• (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
• (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
• (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
• (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
  "Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out."

verb

• (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
• (transitive) To punish (especially a child or teenager) by not allowing to go out.
  "“I’ve missed two lectures already,” remarked Maurice, who was breakfasting in his pyjamas. “Cut them all — he’ll only gate you.”"
• (transitive, biochemistry) To open (a closed ion channel).
• (transitive) To furnish with a gate.

noun

• (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
  "I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate."
• (obsolete) A journey.
  "[…] nought regarding, they kept on their gate, / And all her vaine allurements did forsake […]"
• (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".
• (British, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.

noun

• (education, acronym) gifted and talented education