gate vs windrow

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. 

windrow

noun
  • A ridge or berm at a perimeter 

  • The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth onto other land to improve it. 

  • A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade. 

  • A long snowbank along the side of a road. 

  • A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind. 

  • A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation. 

  • A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade. 

  • A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field. 

verb
  • To arrange (e.g. new-made hay) in lines or windrows. 

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