Gate vs. Threshold

Gatenoun

A doorlike structure outside a house.

Thresholdnoun

The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.

Gatenoun

Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.

Thresholdnoun

(by extension) An entrance; the door or gate of a house.

Gatenoun

Movable barrier.

‘The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.’;

Thresholdnoun

(by extension) Any end or boundary.

Gatenoun

(computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.

Thresholdnoun

(figurative) The outset of something; the point of entry, or the beginning of an action.

Gatenoun

(cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.

‘Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out.’;

Thresholdnoun

The start of the landing area of a runway.

Gatenoun

The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.

Thresholdnoun

(engineering) The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.

Gatenoun

(flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.

Thresholdnoun

The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due.

Gatenoun

Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.

Thresholdnoun

The point where one mentally or physically is vulnerable in response to provocation or to particular things in general. As in emotions, stress, or pain.

Gatenoun

(electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

Thresholdnoun

The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.

Gatenoun

In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.

Thresholdnoun

Fig.: The place or point of entering or beginning, entrance; outset; as, the threshold of life.

Gatenoun

(metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.

Thresholdnoun

the starting point for a new state or experience;

‘on the threshold of manhood’;

Gatenoun

The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.

Thresholdnoun

the smallest detectable sensation

Gatenoun

(cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.

Thresholdnoun

the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close;

‘he stuck his head in the doorway’;

Gatenoun

A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.

Thresholdnoun

the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offer support when passing through a doorway

Gatenoun

A way, path.

Thresholdnoun

a region marking a boundary

Gatenoun

(obsolete) A journey.

Gatenoun

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".

Gatenoun

Manner; gait.

Gateverb

To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.

Gateverb

To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.

Gateverb

(biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.

Gateverb

(transitive) To furnish with a gate.

Gateverb

(transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.

Gatenoun

A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.

Gatenoun

An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.

‘Knowest thou the way to Dover?Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath.’; ‘Opening a gate for a long war.’;

Gatenoun

A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.

Gatenoun

The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.

‘The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.’;

Gatenoun

In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.

Gatenoun

The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.

Gatenoun

A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).

‘I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate.’;

Gatenoun

Manner; gait.

Gateverb

To supply with a gate.

Gateverb

To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.

Gatenoun

a door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall

Gatenoun

a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs

Gatenoun

total admission receipts at a sports event

Gatenoun

passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark

Gateverb

supply with a gate;

‘The house was gated’;

Gateverb

control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate

Gateverb

restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment

Gate

A gate or gateway is a point of entry to or from a space enclosed by walls. The word derived from old Norse meaning road or path; But other terms includ yett and port.

‘gat’;