gate vs wicket

gate

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. 

verb
  • 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. 

wicket

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. 

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