gate – English noun declension

English noun forms of gate

Noun: gate
Singulargate
Pluralgates

Sample Sentences

  • At 7, he made his exit through the Ch‘ien-ch‘ing and the Lung-tsung gates, and thence, through the Yung-Hang Gate he entered the Tz‘u-ning Palace. [1870 June [1870 April], “The Peking Gazettes”, in Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume 3, number 1, Foochow: American Presbyterian Mission Press, →OCLC, page 12, column 1:]
  • The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
  • Lyons and Fisher's stations, who have spared nothing to ensure a success on this point, there is every reason to believe that the Northern Territory will soon be able to make a proper use of her geographical position, and become the gate of the East for all the Australian colonies. [1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 246:]
  • Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out.
  • After all, not using film has advantages other than cost: the curse of getting a hair in the gate (the rectangular opening at the front of a camera) is gone; the problem of getting dirt on the film swept away. [2023 March 16, John Boorman, “Today’s ‘films’ are nothing of the sort – so stop calling them that”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
  • It would encompass more than 500 acres and include a new theme park, several hotels, two mammoth parking garages with direct access from the freeway and a "third gate" — land set aside for future expansion. [1993 05, Rich Mannino, “The World According to Disney”, in Orange Coast Magazine, page 83:]
  • Disneyland opened its second gate – Disney's California Adventure. It was located exactly where Westcot would have been, directly across a central plaza from the Disneyland main gate. [2006 August 1, Shaun Finnie, The Disneylands That Never Were, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 168:]
  • At Disneyland Paris, the much-delayed “second gate,” a Walt Disney Studios theme park, opened on March 16. [2008 December 9, James B. Stewart, Disneywar: The Battle for the Magic Kingdom, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:]
  • For its part, Universal is also continuing to grow domestically, with its new second gate in Orlando – Volcano Bay – opening around the same time as Pandora. [2018 April 16, John Reynolds, Cambridge IGCSE First Language English 4th edition, Hachette UK, →ISBN:]
  • The gangs were fighting for control of "drug gates," control points for the sale of crack cocaine, heroin and marijuana. [1996 April 24, “Connecticut: Task Force Successful In Curbing Street Gangs”, in Organized Crime Digest, volume 17, number 9, Annandale, V.A.: Washington Crime News Service, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:]
  • I put more guns in East Coast niggas' hands than East Coast niggas did when they came out here. I put them niggas on to more weed gates and weed spots and safe havens and safe spots than the East Coast did. [1996 June, Tupac Shakur, quotee, “Inside the Mind of Shakur”, in Tupac Shakur, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 101:]
  • The spatial mapping of Jamaica onto U.S. cities entails the erection of dance halls, reggae clubs, smoking yards or "weed gates," select storefront vendors of Rasta apparel, ritual paraphernalia, and ital ("natural" and approved) foods (Hepner 1998: 206). [2007, Paul Christopher Johnson, Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa, Berkeley, C.A. […]: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 56:]
  • The very first dread I worked with, Dusty, had his gate at 55 Bowen. [2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into The Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 69:]
  • There's not a gate in the West Side area that lasts longer than a month other than the ones I service. Gates go up and come down just as fast. [2018, Robert Ricks, Fast Furious & Fatherless: An Urban Tale, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu Publishing Services, →ISBN, page 244:]
  • Whatcha gonna say there, gate? [1939, Cab Calloway, Frank Froeba, Jack Palmer, “Jumpin' Jive”:]
  • He said, "Come on, gates, and jump with me / At the June Teenth Jamboree." [1940, Louis Jordan, “June Teenth Jamboree”, performed by Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five:]
  • Louie wants you to get in there and lay yo' racket on that writin' machine so all the fine dinners and gates up in the land o' darkness will be hep and truck on down to this frolic pad 'cause the joint's really gonna be jumpin' and everythin' will be fine as wine like watermelon on the vine. [1944 December 8, “Broadway Jam Session”, in The Tampa Times:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English gate (the forms ȝate and ȝeat yielded the dialectal doublet yate), from the plural of Old English ġeat (specifically gatu), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”).
2. See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt. See: Middle English Nouns 'gate', Dutch Nouns 'gat'.

Verbs referencing "gate"

Dutch Nouns gate, Danish Nouns gade, German Nouns Gate.