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A gate is an opening in a wall or fence fitted with a moveable barrier allowing it to be closed.

Gate or GATE may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Gate (album), a 1995 album by Peter Frohmader
  • The Gate, a 1987 horror film
  • Gate (film), a 2018 South Korean film
  • Gate (novel series), a 2006/2010 novel series by Takumi Yanai, with comic (manga, 2011) and television (anime, 2015) adaptations
  • Gate (solitaire), a card game
  • GATE (video game), a 1991 action-adventure video game
  • Gåte, a Norwegian band
  • Gåte (2002 EP), by the eponymous band
  • Grammy, Academy, Tony, and Emmy Awards, or "GATE Awards", see List of people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards

Engineering

Electronics

  • Gate (transistor), terminal of a field effect transistor
  • Logic gate, a functional building block in digital logic such as "and", "or", or "not"
  • Metal gate, the gate material in a MOSFET transistor
  • Noise gate, a high-quality audio squelch control for reducing noise
  • Range gate, the area encompassed by one pixel of radar data

Equipment

  • Gate, a rowing term for the hinged bar that prevents the oar from coming out
  • Gate, a sprue molding channel which carries molten metal into a mold
  • Gate, a sprung safety latch on a lifting hook or carabiner

Hydraulics

  • Gate (hydraulic engineering), a movable structure used to control the flow of fluid in a pipe or channel
  • Gate (water transport), the watertight door that seals off a chamber of a lock
  • Floodgate, an adjustable gate used to control water flow in flood barriers, lake, river, stream, or levee systems
  • Gate valve, a valve that opens by lifting a wedge out of the path of the fluid

Enterprises and organizations

  • GATE (organization), an organization working on gender identity and sex characteristics issues
  • Gate Petroleum, a U.S. gas station franchise founded in Jacksonville, Florida
  • Gate Studios, a British film studio in operation from 1928 to the early 1950s
  • Gate Theatre, in Dublin
  • Gay Alliance Toward Equality, or "GATE", one of the first Canadian gay liberation groups
  • Grupo de Ações Táticas Especiais (Portuguese for "Special Tactical Actions Group"), a Brazilian police special forces squad

Places

Famous gates

  • Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls
  • Gates of Delhi, India
  • Brandenburg Gate, 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin
  • Cilician Gates or Gülek Pass, a pass through the Taurus Mountains connecting the low plains of Cilicia to the Anatolian Plateau, Turkey
  • Gate of Kuwait, a supertall skyscraper under construction in Kuwait City, Kuwait
  • Golden Gate, a strait on the west coast of North America that connects San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean
  • India Gate, the All India War Memorial, a memorial located on the Rajpath, the eastern edge of the "ceremonial axis" of New Delhi, India
  • Ishtar Gate, the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon
  • Lion Gate, the main entrance of the Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae, southern Greece
  • Menin Gate, a war memorial dedicated to the British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres, Belgium during World War I
  • Victoria Gate (Valletta), a city gate in Valletta, Malta

Scandals and conspiracy theories

  • "-gate", common suffix for a public scandal (see List of scandals with "-gate" suffix) and for conspiracy theories, such as:
    • Gategate, a scandal in the United Kingdom involving the Government Chief Whip, the police, and a gate
    • Pizzagate conspiracy theory, a debunked conspiracy theory that went viral during the 2016 United States presidential election cycle
    • Russiagate, a popular name for a scandal involving Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
    • Telegramgate, a 2019 scandal involving Puerto Rico's governor Ricardo Rossello
    • Watergate scandal, a United States scandal that lasted from that lasted from 1972 to 1974, which led to the use of the suffix "-gate" for other scandals

Science and technology

Other uses

  • Gate (airport), a specified location for boarding or leaving an aircraft in an airport
  • Gate (surname), people and characters with the surname
  • Gate receipts (or "event gate"), the sum of ticket revenue for a particular event at a sporting venue
  • Gifted education, also known as Gifted and Talented Education, or "GATE"
  • Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, or "GATE", an entrance examination for admission to postgraduate courses in India

See also

  • All pages with titles containing gate
  • Báb (1819–1850), which means "Gate" and is the title taken by the founder of Bábism
  • Gait (disambiguation)
  • Gates (disambiguation)
  • Gating (disambiguation)
  • The Gate (disambiguation)
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