shutting post
hinging post
swinging post
gatepost
yatt
lith
heelpost
lock-gate
yett
gateway
dern
turnstile
gating
handgate
barrier
gateable
bar
wicket
radial gate
perimeter fence
gatewise
wicket gate
wicket door
fence line
fencepost
gate
railing
rail
quoin post
fencing
fence
front gate
port
foregate
exterior door
outside door
sidepost
underbarrier
sept
grating
end
doorcase
alleygating
harr
bulwark
hatch
gatekeeper
extraterminal
close
pin
Tian'anmen
shut
enclosed
meta
borderzone
through
grate
bounding
tail-bay
meer
sill
-es
portcullis
unbar
crossette
tressure
stoplog
cringle
periphractic
crapaudine
borderstone
sally port
crossover
barricade
verge
dole
threshold
brink
postern
crossunder
pincer gate
open
terminus
doorstopper
door
room access
doorway
trap
mereing
gateable
underbarrier
extraterminal
enclosed
periphractic
open
gatewise
shutting post
hinging post
swinging post
gatepost
yatt
lith
heelpost
lock-gate
yett
gateway
dern
turnstile
gating
handgate
barrier
bar
wicket
radial gate
perimeter fence
wicket gate
wicket door
fence line
fencepost
railing
rail
quoin post
fencing
fence
front gate
port
foregate
exterior door
outside door
sidepost
sept
grating
end
doorcase
alleygating
harr
bulwark
hatch
gatekeeper
pin
meta
borderzone
grate
bounding
tail-bay
meer
sill
portcullis
crossette
tressure
stoplog
cringle
crapaudine
borderstone
sally port
crossover
barricade
verge
dole
threshold
brink
postern
crossunder
pincer gate
terminus
doorstopper
door
room access
doorway
trap
mereing
gate
gate
close
shut
unbar
fence
noun
noun
- An entrance capable of being blocked by use of a gate.
- A point at which freight moving from one territory to another is interchanged between transportation lines.
- 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 place regarded as giving access to somewhere.
- Any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another.
- Any thing or area of interest that tends to lead to deeper involvement.
verb
noun
- A structure that bars passage.
- A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
- A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
- The lists in a tournament.
- An obstacle or impediment.
- A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A.
- A boundary or limit.
verb
noun
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- 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.
- The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- A drilling or tamping rod.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- 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).
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- The counter of such premises.
- 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.
- A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- The crossbar.
- Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
- A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
- An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
- Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- 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.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- 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.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- One of those musical sections.
- A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
- A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
verb
- To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
- To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
- To prohibit.
- To lock or bolt with a bar.
prep
noun
- A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
- An angle bracket when used in HTML.
- Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
- A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
- A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
- A device to measure the height of animals, usually dogs.
- A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller
- A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
- The pitch.
- a ticket barrier at a rail station, box office at a cinema, etc.
- One of the two wooden structures at each end of the pitch, consisting of three vertical stumps and two bails; the target for the bowler, defended by the batsman.
- The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
- A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.
- The period during which two batsmen bat together.
- The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.
noun
verb
- To furnish with a gate.
- To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
- To open a closed ion channel.
- To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
noun
- Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
- 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".
- Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
- A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- Movable barrier.
- A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
- A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- A way, path.
noun
- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- short for railway
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
verb
noun
- An entryway or gate.
- A set of files used to build and install a binary executable file from the source code of an application.
- A type of very sweet fortified wine, mostly dark red, traditionally made in Portugal.
- A program that has been adapted, modified, or recoded so that it works on a different platform from the one for which it was created; the act of this adapting.
- A suitcase or schoolbag.
- A logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred. Computer port (hardware) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- A female connector of an electronic device, into which a cable's male connector can be inserted.
- The portfolio of a model or artist.
- An opening where a connection (such as a pipe) is made.
- The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board.
- A space between two stones wide enough for a delivered stone or bowl to pass through.
- A small medical appliance installed beneath the skin, connected to a vein by a catheter, and used to inject drugs or to draw blood samples.
- A town or city containing such a place, a port city.
- Something used to carry a thing, especially a frame for wicks in candle-making.
- The position of a weapon when ported; a rifle position executed by throwing the weapon diagonally across the front of the body, with the right hand grasping the small of the stock and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder.
- A sweep rower that primarily rows with an oar on the port side.
- A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
- An opening or doorway in the side of a ship, especially for boarding or loading; an embrasure through which a cannon may be discharged; a porthole.
verb
- To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lays diagonally across the front of the body, with the barrel or similar part near the left shoulder and the right hand grasping the small of the stock; or, to throw (the weapon) into this position on command.
- To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm.
- To carry, bear, or transport. See porter.
- To adapt, modify, or create a new version of, a program so that it works on a different platform. Porting (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- To transfer a voucher or subsidy from one jurisdiction to another.
- To carry or transfer (an existing telephone number) from one telephone service provider to another.
adj
noun
- A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
- An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
- The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
- A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
- The sound made by something that grates against something else.
- The loose material that comes from something being grated.
adj
noun
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- either extremity of something that has length
- the point in time at which something ends
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- a final part or section
- a final state
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the part you are expected to play
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
verb
noun
- A trapdoor.
- A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
- An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
- The act of hatching.
- A gullet.
- A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
- A floodgate; a sluice gate.
- An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
- A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
- Development; disclosure; discovery.
- A bedstead.
- A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
- A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
- An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
- The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
verb
noun
- A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate.
- A person or group who controls access to something or somebody.
- One who gatekeeps.
- In dissociative identity disorder, an aspect of the personality that controls access to the various identities.
- A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of the family Nymphalidae.
verb
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- become closed
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.)
- come to a close
- complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement
- be priced or listed when trading stops
- engage at close quarters
- cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop
- change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact
- come together, as if in an embrace
- draw near
- bring together all the elements or parts of
- bar access to
- fill or stop up
- unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
- finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead
adj
- at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
- close in relevance or relationship
- not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
adj
- rigorously attentive; strict and thorough
- marked by fidelity to an original
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- crowded
- lacking fresh air
- of textiles
- strictly confined or guarded
- confined to specific persons
- fitting closely but comfortably
- used of hair or haircuts
- giving or spending with reluctance
- inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
adv
noun
noun
- The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
- A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
- The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
- A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
- A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
- Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
- A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
- A thing of small value; a trifle.
- A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
- A pinball machine.
- One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
- The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
- A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
- The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
- A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
- Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
- The tenon of a dovetail joint.
- A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
- A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
- A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
- A leg.
verb
- To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
- To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
- To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
- To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
- To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
- To pin down (someone).
- To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
noun
- Boundary marker.
- Metoidioplasty.
- Metagame; the most effective tactics and strategies used in a competitive video game in a given period of time.
- An informal but widely adopted practice in a given field; a de facto standard.
- Either of the conical columns at each end of an Ancient Roman circus.
adj
prep
- From one side of an opening to the other.
- Entering, then later leaving.
- To (or up to) and including, with all intermediate values.
- By means of.
- In consequence of; as a result of.
- Surrounded by (while moving).
postp
adj
- Passing from one side of something to the other.
- Without a future; done for.
- No longer interested; wearied or turned off by experience.
- Proceeding from origin to destination without delay due to change of equipment.
- In possession of the ball beyond the last line of defence but not necessarily the goalkeeper; through on goal.
- Finished; complete.
adv
- Completely.
- Out into the open.
- During a period of time; throughout
- From one side to the other by way of the interior.
- From one end to the other.
- To the end.
noun
noun
noun
- A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
- A young herring.
- The shaft or thill of a carriage.
- A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.
- The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
- 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.
- A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
- A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
adj
suffix
- that end in "ce" — fence → fences
- that end in "(d)ge" — bridge → bridges, range → ranges
- that end in "ce" — dance → dances
- that end in "(z)z" — fizz → fizzes
- that end in "o" (in some cases) — go → goes (but piano → pianos)
- that end in "(t)ch" (only when pronounced as [tʃ]) — impeach → impeaches (but psych → psychs)
- that end in "(z)z" — waltz → waltzes
- that end in "x" — box → boxes
- that end in "(t)ch" (only when pronounced as [tʃ]) — glitch → glitches (but psych → psychs)
- that end in "x" — tax → taxes
- that end in "(j)j" — hajj → hajjes ("j" is only final in loan words raj, hajj)
- that end in "(consonant)y" — lady → ladies (but not "(vowel)y" key → keys)
- that end in "(s)s" — miss → misses
- that end in "y" — cry → cries
- that end in "o" (in some cases) — tomato → tomatoes (but soprano → sopranos)
- that end in "sh" — ash → ashes
- that end in "(s)s(e)" — bus → buses, house → houses, rendezvous → rendezvouses
- that end in "sh" — wish → wishes
noun
- The socket in which the pivot of a door turns.
- A type of piquant sauce flavored with tarragon, lemon or vinegar, and other spices, that is traditionally served with a fowl cooked in the crapaudine style.
- A toadstone.
- An heirloom variety of beet originating in France, and considered possibly the oldest beet cultivar.
- A form of torture in which the hands and feet are tied together behind the back, forcing the victim's body to bow, and sometimes accompanied by additional forms of torture, such as suspending the body by the point where the hands and feet are tied or beating.
- A method of preparing fowl and poultry, where the back is split apart and the bird is flattened down the breast, looking somewhat like a toad; spatchcock.
- A device for calibrating a pendulum consisting of a dilatable plate that produces an artificial tilt of a clinometer.
noun
- A place where one thing crosses over another.
- A blend of multiple styles of music or multiple film genres, intended to appeal to a wider audience.
- A move in sports that involves crossing one hand or foot in front of another, as in ice skating.
- The point at which the relative humidity is less than, or equal to, the ambient air temperature.
- The means by which the crossing is made.
- An SUV-like automobile built on a passenger car platform, e.g. the Pontiac Torrent.
- A piece of fiction that borrows elements from two or more fictional universes.
- A pair of switches and a short, diagonal length of track which together connect two parallel tracks and allow passage between them.
- An athlete or swimmer who has competed in more than one of open water swimming, pool swimming, triathlon, and endurance sports.
- The result of the exchange of genetic material during meiosis.
- A crossover dribble.
adj
noun
- a region marking a boundary
- the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close
- the starting point for a new state or experience
- the smallest detectable sensation
- the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway
adj
- affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed
- affording free passage or access
- used of mouth or eyes
- (set theory) of an interval that contains neither of its endpoints
- ready or willing to receive favorably
- open and observable; not secret or hidden
noun
- a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water
- where the air is unconfined
- a tournament in which both professionals and amateurs may play
- information that has become public
adj
- with no protection or shield
- open to or in view of all
- not having been filled
- accessible to all
- not defended or capable of being defended
- (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
- having no protecting cover or enclosure
- not brought to a conclusion; subject to further thought
- not sealed or having been unsealed
- without undue constriction as from e.g. tenseness or inhibition
- not requiring union membership
- possibly accepting or permitting
- affording free passage or view
- openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness
- ready for business
verb
- cause to open or to become open
- start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning
- become open
- begin or set in action, of meetings, speeches, recitals, etc.
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- make available
- become available
- have an opening or passage or outlet
- make the opening move
- afford access to
- display the contents of a file or start an application as on a computer
noun
- the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close
- a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
- anything providing a means of access (or escape)
- a structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road)
- a room that is entered via a door
noun
- A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
- A person's mouth.
- An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
- A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
- A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.
- The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.
- A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
- A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
- The trapezius muscle.
- A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids.
- Trapshooting.
- A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
- A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.
- A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
- Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
- Belongings.
- The game of trapball itself.
- A cubicle (in a public toilet).
- A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
- A fictional character from anime, or related media, who is coded as or has qualities typically associated with a gender other than the character's ostensible gender; otokonoko, josou.
- A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.
- A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
- An area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood.
- A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
- Someone who is anatomically male but who passes as female.
verb
- To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
- To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
- To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
- To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
- To provide with a trap.
- To leave suddenly, to flee.
- To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.
- Of a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman.
- To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
- to trap foxes
- To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game.
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