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GAYT/ɡeɪt/

A gate is a door in a fence, or an airport boarding point: the garden gate, close the gate, gate 14. Door is usually in a building. Entrance is the way in, which may have a gate. Boarding gate is the airport sense. Do not mix with gait (a way of walking). Check the screens for your gate.

Meaning

A door in a fence or wall, or the place where you board a plane.

Examples

• “Our flight leaves from gate twelve.”
• “Please shut the gate so the dog stays in the field.”
• “Passengers for Glasgow should go to gate nine.”

Good to know

a garden/airport gate. Building: door. Mix-up: gait (walk). Phrase: boarding gate.

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