What's the difference between gate and gaze?

Gate


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
  • (n.) The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
  • (n.) In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
  • (n.) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.
  • (n.) The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.
  • (v. t.) To supply with a gate.
  • (v. t.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.
  • (n.) A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).
  • (n.) Manner; gait.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Modulation of the voltage-gated K+ conductance in T-lymphocytes by substance P was examined.
  • (2) She said that even as she approached the gates, she was debating with the boy’s father whether to let the first-grader enter.
  • (3) The Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the German flag.
  • (4) The committee is chaired by John Thompson, the board's lead independent director, and includes Microsoft founder and chairman, Bill Gates, as well as other board members Chuck Noski and Steve Luczo.
  • (5) Right ventricular volumes were determined in 12 patients with different levels of right and left ventricular function by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an ECG gated multisection technique in planes perpendicular to the diastolic position of the interventricular septum.
  • (6) Britain has been the Gates foundation’s second largest recipient, receiving 25 grants worth $156m since 2003.
  • (7) A method using selective saturation pulses and gated spin-echo MRI automatically corrects for this motion and thus eliminates misregistration artifact from regional function analysis.
  • (8) Gated blood pool images were stored in modified left anterior oblique views by the multiple gated method (28 frames per beat) after the in vivo labeling of erythrocytes using 25 mCi 99m-Tc.
  • (9) Four days after a 5 minute bilateral carotid artery occlusion, receptor autoradiography was performed to measure the binding of [35S]t-butylbicyclophosphorothionate (TBPS) to the GABA-gated chloride channel.
  • (10) Similar responses were obtained with gated noise bursts and by pauses in a series of clicks.
  • (11) The estimated forward (k) and backward (1) rate constants are: 2.45 x I05 M-1 s- and 0.23 x 103 s-1, respectively, for k and I for the case when the drug is trapped by both activation and inactivation gates, and 3.58 x 105 M-l s-l and 4.15 x 10-3 S-l for the case when the drug is not trapped.
  • (12) p-NCS-TBOB should prove useful in electrophysiological and biochemical studies examining the properties of GABA-gated Cl- channels.
  • (13) The involvement of the endothelium and the role of change in membrane potential are evaluated and lead to the conclusion that pressure and flow effects do not depend exclusively on the release of endothelial factors nor the activation of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels.
  • (14) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
  • (15) This conductance is activated when the cis side is made positive, with an apparent gating charge of 3.
  • (16) In addition to improved image quality, the characteristics of 99mTc sestamibi allow gated planar or SPECT perfusion images to be obtained.
  • (17) Perijunctional Na+ channels had the same voltage dependence, gating kinetics and sensitivity to tetrodotoxin as extrajunctional Na+ channels, suggesting that these cells express a single type of Na+ channel.
  • (18) Charge conservation analysis explicitly includes the gating charge when applied in the laboratory frame.
  • (19) We found the incorporated channels to be insensitive to calcium and octanol, and in most cases to pH in the range of 5-7, suggesting that either these agents do not interact directly with the junctional channels or that the corresponding gating regions are inactivated during the isolation and reconstitution procedures.
  • (20) "You could be in an open-world single-player environment where you can go up to a gate and when you enter that base, you're walking into a multiplayer map.

Gaze


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To fixx the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.
  • (v. t.) To view with attention; to gaze on .
  • (n.) A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
  • (n.) The object gazed on.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) EEG arousal diminished as a function of distance, while arousal for direct gaze was always higher than for averted gaze, whatever the distance.
  • (2) In this study downward gaze was more severely disturbed than upward gaze.
  • (3) Join us for a spot of future gazing as we discuss: The challenges and opportunities colleges and training providers will face over the next five years International expansion The role of FE in higher education New ways to diversify New technology – the possibilities and risks.
  • (4) The sniping followed an article by Cameron in the Sunday Times , in which he called on the coalition to provide a "strong, decisive and united government" in the wake of acrimonious splits over Lords reform, warning that the public will not stand for "division and navel-gazing" at a time of social and economic insecurity.
  • (5) Absence of a functioning velocity storage network in bottom-dwelling teleosts (as in Amphibia) may be related to the sporadic, slow locomotion of these species and the resulting small requirements for continuous gaze stabilization during self-motion at higher velocities.
  • (6) We examined a 55-year-old right-handed woman showing transient coma, amnesia, mild right hemiparesis, vertical gaze impairment and aphonia without aphasia.
  • (7) It is suggested that a theory similar to the phenomenological theory which accounts for the fly's gaze may account for the human eye's movement during an observation of Müller-Lyer figures.
  • (8) In both non-aligned and head-aligned modes, subject instructions pertaining to the second target light concerned only gaze; there was no requisite head position.
  • (9) As Nelson Mandela lay in the open casket , his features both familiar and strange, a crisply suited Robert Mugabe gazed down at him through his dark glasses for a long, still, silent moment.
  • (10) The authors review the neuroanatomic and neurophysiologic features relevant to supranuclear gaze mechanisms.
  • (11) All patients had conjugate gaze deviation to the right.
  • (12) That's just dandy when you're gazing at a lamb chop with mint sauce, but the downside to this technology is that each time you glance at the image of Jamie on the front cover you'll absorb some of him, too.
  • (13) This task thus requires monkeys to direct their gaze to the location of a remembered visual cue, controls the retinal coordinates of the visual cues, controls the monkey's oculomotor behavior during the delay period, and also allows precise measurement of the timing and direction of the relevant behavioral responses.
  • (14) Interview with Donald Hutera In other words "Maliphant's choreography slips under our guard, arouses our curiosity and hones our gaze, without us realising the force of its aim."
  • (15) Standardized surface swab, gaze pad contact, Rodac plates, and burn wound biopsy cultures were obtained twice per week.
  • (16) When head-free and head-fixed pursuit were compared, striking similarities were seen for both slow phase gaze velocity gain and phase, indicating that gaze control during smooth pursuit is largely independent of the degree of associated head movement.
  • (17) A 23-year-old man sustained severe macular damage by sun gazing during a hallucinogenic drug-induced state.
  • (18) Extracellular recordings from single neurons of the prestriate area V3A were carried out in awake, behaving monkeys, to test the influence of the direction of gaze on cellular activity.
  • (19) As she gazes down from her plane at the sprawling Amazon jungle below, she will hope and pray that, with a number of giant infrastructure projects planned in the region, history is not about to repeat itself.
  • (20) The main acute symptoms included disorders of consciousness, hypersomnia and sometimes vertical gaze paresis.

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