A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.
An area nearby to a country or other jurisdiction's legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest.
A person's neighborhood, or an area nearby to a person's usual residence or place of work and where the person is likely to go.
A doorlike structure outside a house.
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 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.
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 furnish with a gate.
To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.