English words for 'Toffoli gate'
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noun
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- an entrance that can be closed by a gate
- A passage that can be closed by use of a gate.
- (attributive) Any thing or area of interest that tends to lead to deeper involvement.
- Any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another.
- A place regarded as giving access to somewhere.
- (computing, networking, telecommunications) In wireless internet, an access point with additional software capabilities such as providing NAT and DHCP, which may also provide VPN support, roaming, firewalls, various levels of security, etc.
- A point at which freight moving from one territory to another is interchanged between transportation lines.
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- supply with a gate
- (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
- control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
- restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
- (transitive) To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).
- (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
- (transitive, biochemistry) To open (a closed ion channel).
noun
- A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- total admission receipts at a sports event
- a movable barrier in a fence or wall
- passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
- a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
- A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
- (slang) A place where drugs are illegally sold.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- (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".
- In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
- A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
- (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
- (mining) A tunnel serving the coal face.
- (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
- (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
- (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- A movable barrier.
noun
- a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle
- (historical, military) A subterranean passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks.
- (architecture) A back gate, back door, side entrance, or other gateway distinct from the main entrance, especially in a city wall or fortification.
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verb
noun
- A gate in the form of a grating which is lowered into place at the gateway of a castle, a fort, etc.
- gate consisting of an iron or wooden grating that hangs in the entry to a castle or fortified town; can be lowered to prevent passage
- (historical) An old English coin from the reign of Elizabeth I, minted for the use of the East India Company, and bearing the picture of a portcullis on the reverse.
verb
noun
- (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid
- an expressway on which tolls are collected
- (Scotland) A winding stairway.
- A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms.
- (chiefly US) A toll road, especially a toll expressway.
- (military) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise.
- A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid.
- (mathematical economics) A trajectory on a finite time interval that satisfies an optimality criterion which is associated with a cost function.
verb
noun
- A floodgate; a sluice gate.
- (Scotland) A bedstead.
- (nautical) An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
- (figurative) Development; disclosure; discovery.
- (informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
- (slang) A gullet.
- An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
- A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
- (often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
- A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
- (mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
- A trapdoor.
- The act of hatching.
- (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
- A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
- shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
- a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open
- a movable barrier covering a hatchway
- the production of young from an egg
verb
- (intransitive, of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
- (transitive) To close with a hatch or hatches.
- (intransitive, of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
- (transitive) To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (crosshatch).
- (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
- (transitive) To devise (a plot or scheme).
- devise or invent
- draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper
- inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating
- emerge from the eggs
- sit on (eggs)
noun
- a gate consisting of a post that acts as a pivot for rotating arms; set in a passageway for controlling the persons entering
- A similar device in a footpath to allow people through one at a time while preventing the passage of cattle.
- A rotating mechanical device that controls and counts passage between public areas, especially one that only allows passage after a charge has been paid.
- (mathematics, logic) The ⊢ symbol used to represent logical entailment (deducibility relation), especially of the syntactic type; i.e., syntactic consequence. (Such symbol can be read as "prove(s)" or "give(s)". )
noun
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- (by extension, in combination) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- (slang, hip-hop, chiefly in the plural) Hip-hop lyrics, especially ones written and delivered skillfully.
- (recreational drugs) A small, tablet-shaped dose of Xanax, typically containing two milligrams and able to be split into quarters.
- (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- (slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- (programming, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- (US, Philippines, law, usually with the) The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- (physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
- (UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- (by extension, slang, chiefly in the plural) Something well-said or well-written.
- (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- (typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
- (figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome; a standard or expectation.
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, slightly less than atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water; a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- The counter of such premises.
- (soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
- (law, metonymic, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
- (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:
- (telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
- a counter where you can obtain food or drink
- the act of preventing
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
- (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter
- an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal
- a heating element in an electric fire
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore
- (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried
- a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon
- a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
- a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
- a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
- the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction
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verb
noun
- A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
- (UK) A young herring.
- (construction) A threshold; horizontal structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings, or lying on the ground, and bearing the upright portion of a frame; a sill plate.
- (geology) A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.
- (military, historical) The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
- (architecture, also "window sill") A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
- The shaft or thill of a carriage.
- (anatomy) A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
- (geology) a flat (usually horizontal) mass of igneous rock between two layers of older sedimentary rock
- structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure
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- an entrance at the rear of a building
- an undocumented way to get access to a computer system or the data it contains
- a secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position)
- (golf, informal) The rear side of the hole, furthest from the golfer.
- A subsidiary entrance to a building or house at its rear, normally away from the street.
- A means of access, often secret and unprotected, to something.
- (automotive) A rear side door of a car, or at the back of a van.
- (computer security) A secret means of access to a program or system.
- (slang) The anus; (by extension) anal sex.
adj
verb
- To attempt to accomplish by indirect means, especially when direct means are proscribed.
- (surfing) To enter a tube by accelerating from behind; to surf into an already formed hollow wave, in contrast to the normal method of slowing to allow a surfable wave to form.
- (computer security) To add a backdoor (a secret means of access) to a program or system.
noun
- A water gate or floodgate.
- An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
- (linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
- (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
- The stream flowing through a floodgate.
- conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
verb
- (linguistics) To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
- (transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- (transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out).
- (transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
- (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
- (intransitive) To flow, pour.
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- draw through a sluice
- transport in or send down a sluice
- pour as if from a sluice
noun
- A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification.
- A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath.
- (Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Zealand) A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.
- A long mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation.
- A terrace or shelf of sand along a beach, formed above the high tide water level by wave action.
- (Western Pennsylvania) The edge of a road.
- (mining, Australia) One of the flat terraces on the slope of an open-pit mine.
- (mining, US, Canada) A small wall along the edge of a bench of an open-pit mine, intended to prevent items falling over the crest.
- A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope.
- a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road
- a narrow ledge or shelf typically at the top or bottom of a slope
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- One of the historic seven gates of the London Wall around the City of London, dating back to Roman times.
- A suburb of Up Holland, West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5105).
- A hamlet in Cley next the Sea parish, North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG0543).
- (historical) A famous prison in London, in use for over 700 years until demolished in 1904.
noun
- a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate
- a shelter or screen providing protection from enemy fire or from the weather
- a decorative wall bracket for holding candles or other sources of light
- a candle or flaming torch secured in a sconce
- (architecture) A squinch.
- A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
- A type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford.
- A fragment of a floe of ice.
- A head or a skull.
- A fixed seat or shelf.
- A candlestick (holder for a candle, especially a circular tube, with a brim, into which a candle is inserted), either with a handle for carrying, or with a bracket for attaching to a wall.
- A fixture for a light, which holds it and provides a screen against wind or against a naked flame or lightbulb.
- (Oxford University slang) An act of sconcing; very similar to a fine at Cambridge University, though a sconce is the act of issuing a penalty rather than the penalty itself.
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noun
- A shelter for a gatekeeper.
- A lodge besides the entrance to an estate; often the residence of a gatekeeper; also a dwelling formerly used as such a residence.
- (historical) A fortified room over the entrance to a castle or over the gate in a city wall
- a house built at a gateway; usually the gatekeeper's residence
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name
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- (by extension) To limit another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, or overprotectiveness.
- To control or limit access to something.
- (sociology) To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much of a role another party, often a spouse, has in some task.
noun
- A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate.
- One who gatekeeps.
- (computing) A provider of core platform services with specific characteristics (Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 of the European Parliament and of the Council)
- A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of the family Nymphalidae.
- (psychology) In dissociative identity disorder, an aspect of the personality that controls access to the various identities.
- A person or group who controls access to something or somebody.
- someone who controls access to something
- someone who guards an entrance
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noun
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- an entrance that can be closed by a gate
- A passage that can be closed by use of a gate.
- (attributive) Any thing or area of interest that tends to lead to deeper involvement.
- Any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another.
- A place regarded as giving access to somewhere.
- (computing, networking, telecommunications) In wireless internet, an access point with additional software capabilities such as providing NAT and DHCP, which may also provide VPN support, roaming, firewalls, various levels of security, etc.
- A point at which freight moving from one territory to another is interchanged between transportation lines.
verb
noun
noun
- a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle
- (historical, military) A subterranean passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks.
- (architecture) A back gate, back door, side entrance, or other gateway distinct from the main entrance, especially in a city wall or fortification.
adj
noun
noun
verb
noun
- A gate in the form of a grating which is lowered into place at the gateway of a castle, a fort, etc.
- gate consisting of an iron or wooden grating that hangs in the entry to a castle or fortified town; can be lowered to prevent passage
- (historical) An old English coin from the reign of Elizabeth I, minted for the use of the East India Company, and bearing the picture of a portcullis on the reverse.
verb
noun
- (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid
- an expressway on which tolls are collected
- (Scotland) A winding stairway.
- A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms.
- (chiefly US) A toll road, especially a toll expressway.
- (military) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise.
- A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid.
- (mathematical economics) A trajectory on a finite time interval that satisfies an optimality criterion which is associated with a cost function.
verb
noun
- A floodgate; a sluice gate.
- (Scotland) A bedstead.
- (nautical) An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
- (figurative) Development; disclosure; discovery.
- (informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
- (slang) A gullet.
- An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
- A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
- (often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
- A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
- (mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
- A trapdoor.
- The act of hatching.
- (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
- A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
- shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
- a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open
- a movable barrier covering a hatchway
- the production of young from an egg
verb
- (intransitive, of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
- (transitive) To close with a hatch or hatches.
- (intransitive, of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
- (transitive) To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (crosshatch).
- (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
- (transitive) To devise (a plot or scheme).
- devise or invent
- draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper
- inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating
- emerge from the eggs
- sit on (eggs)
noun
- a gate consisting of a post that acts as a pivot for rotating arms; set in a passageway for controlling the persons entering
- A similar device in a footpath to allow people through one at a time while preventing the passage of cattle.
- A rotating mechanical device that controls and counts passage between public areas, especially one that only allows passage after a charge has been paid.
- (mathematics, logic) The ⊢ symbol used to represent logical entailment (deducibility relation), especially of the syntactic type; i.e., syntactic consequence. (Such symbol can be read as "prove(s)" or "give(s)". )
noun
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- (by extension, in combination) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- (slang, hip-hop, chiefly in the plural) Hip-hop lyrics, especially ones written and delivered skillfully.
- (recreational drugs) A small, tablet-shaped dose of Xanax, typically containing two milligrams and able to be split into quarters.
- (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- (slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- (programming, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- (US, Philippines, law, usually with the) The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- (physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
- (UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- (by extension, slang, chiefly in the plural) Something well-said or well-written.
- (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- (typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
- (figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome; a standard or expectation.
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, slightly less than atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water; a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- The counter of such premises.
- (soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
- (law, metonymic, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
- (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:
- (telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
- a counter where you can obtain food or drink
- the act of preventing
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
- (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter
- an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal
- a heating element in an electric fire
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore
- (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried
- a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon
- a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
- a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
- a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
- the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction
prep
verb
noun
- A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
- (UK) A young herring.
- (construction) A threshold; horizontal structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings, or lying on the ground, and bearing the upright portion of a frame; a sill plate.
- (geology) A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.
- (military, historical) The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
- (architecture, also "window sill") A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
- The shaft or thill of a carriage.
- (anatomy) A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
- (geology) a flat (usually horizontal) mass of igneous rock between two layers of older sedimentary rock
- structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure
adj
noun
- an entrance at the rear of a building
- an undocumented way to get access to a computer system or the data it contains
- a secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position)
- (golf, informal) The rear side of the hole, furthest from the golfer.
- A subsidiary entrance to a building or house at its rear, normally away from the street.
- A means of access, often secret and unprotected, to something.
- (automotive) A rear side door of a car, or at the back of a van.
- (computer security) A secret means of access to a program or system.
- (slang) The anus; (by extension) anal sex.
adj
verb
- To attempt to accomplish by indirect means, especially when direct means are proscribed.
- (surfing) To enter a tube by accelerating from behind; to surf into an already formed hollow wave, in contrast to the normal method of slowing to allow a surfable wave to form.
- (computer security) To add a backdoor (a secret means of access) to a program or system.
noun
- A water gate or floodgate.
- An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
- (linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
- (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
- The stream flowing through a floodgate.
- conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
verb
- (linguistics) To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
- (transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- (transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out).
- (transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
- (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
- (intransitive) To flow, pour.
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- draw through a sluice
- transport in or send down a sluice
- pour as if from a sluice
noun
- A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification.
- A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath.
- (Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Zealand) A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.
- A long mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation.
- A terrace or shelf of sand along a beach, formed above the high tide water level by wave action.
- (Western Pennsylvania) The edge of a road.
- (mining, Australia) One of the flat terraces on the slope of an open-pit mine.
- (mining, US, Canada) A small wall along the edge of a bench of an open-pit mine, intended to prevent items falling over the crest.
- A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope.
- a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road
- a narrow ledge or shelf typically at the top or bottom of a slope
verb
noun
- a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate
- a shelter or screen providing protection from enemy fire or from the weather
- a decorative wall bracket for holding candles or other sources of light
- a candle or flaming torch secured in a sconce
- (architecture) A squinch.
- A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
- A type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford.
- A fragment of a floe of ice.
- A head or a skull.
- A fixed seat or shelf.
- A candlestick (holder for a candle, especially a circular tube, with a brim, into which a candle is inserted), either with a handle for carrying, or with a bracket for attaching to a wall.
- A fixture for a light, which holds it and provides a screen against wind or against a naked flame or lightbulb.
- (Oxford University slang) An act of sconcing; very similar to a fine at Cambridge University, though a sconce is the act of issuing a penalty rather than the penalty itself.
verb
noun
- A shelter for a gatekeeper.
- A lodge besides the entrance to an estate; often the residence of a gatekeeper; also a dwelling formerly used as such a residence.
- (historical) A fortified room over the entrance to a castle or over the gate in a city wall
- a house built at a gateway; usually the gatekeeper's residence
noun
noun
verb
- (by extension) To limit another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, or overprotectiveness.
- To control or limit access to something.
- (sociology) To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much of a role another party, often a spouse, has in some task.
verb
- supply with a gate
- (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
- control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
- restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
- (transitive) To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).
- (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
- (transitive, biochemistry) To open (a closed ion channel).
noun
- A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- total admission receipts at a sports event
- a movable barrier in a fence or wall
- passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
- a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
- A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
- (slang) A place where drugs are illegally sold.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- (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".
- In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
- A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
- (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
- (mining) A tunnel serving the coal face.
- (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
- (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
- (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- A movable barrier.
noun
- A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate.
- One who gatekeeps.
- (computing) A provider of core platform services with specific characteristics (Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 of the European Parliament and of the Council)
- A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of the family Nymphalidae.
- (psychology) In dissociative identity disorder, an aspect of the personality that controls access to the various identities.
- A person or group who controls access to something or somebody.
- someone who controls access to something
- someone who guards an entrance
verb
- supply with a gate
- (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
- control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
- restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
- (transitive) To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).
- (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
- (transitive, biochemistry) To open (a closed ion channel).
noun
- A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- total admission receipts at a sports event
- a movable barrier in a fence or wall
- passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
- a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
- A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
- (slang) A place where drugs are illegally sold.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- (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".
- In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
- A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
- (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
- (mining) A tunnel serving the coal face.
- (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
- (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
- (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- A movable barrier.