What's the difference between gate and passageway?

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.

Passageway


Definition:

  • (n.) A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sequentially, beginning with hepatocytes, biliary passageways included canaliculi, preductules, ductules, and ducts.
  • (2) Besides obesity and maleness, other risk factors for OSA are diseases that have an impact on the configuration or effective compliance of the pharyngeal passageway.
  • (3) External nares and nasal passageways, albeit blind-ended, were prominent in the proboscis.
  • (4) Following ATPase localization, four sizes of biliary passageways (canaliculi, bile preductules, ductules, and ducts) were visualized.
  • (5) These epithelial features, different from those of other mammals, including humans, suggest that the greater part of the rabbit vagina accomplishes functions other than serving for copulation and as a fetal passageway.
  • (6) The majority of liquid flux (68%) would occur through passageways smaller than the smallest tracer we used (1.3 nm radius).
  • (7) Iran’s Revolutionary Guards patrol Iranian waters in the Gulf, especially near the strait of Hormuz, a vital passageway where a fifth of the world’s oil passes in tankers.
  • (8) Prisoners are forced to "stay in the lokalka [a fenced-off passageway between two areas in the camp] until lights out" (the prisoner is forbidden to go into the barracks — whether it be autumnl or winter.
  • (9) (2) A consistent and appropriate classification of nasal passageways, epithelia, and other structures is needed to avoid further confusion.
  • (10) Electron micrographs showed tubules of five to nine pyramidally shaped hepatocytes with their apices directed toward a central biliary passageway and their bases directed toward sinusoids.
  • (11) Its concentric passageway symbolises the guided, ritualised walk of the common man towards the sacred inner sanctum of the democratic parliament hall.
  • (12) Internationally, Iran is locked in a stalemate with the west over its nuclear programme and it has recently responded to attempts at banning its oil imports by sabre-rattling and raising the stakes by threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, a vital passageway in the Gulf where one-fifth of the world's oil passes in tankers.
  • (13) The optimal dimensions of races and passageways to prevent crowding and turning around should be assessed at the design stage.
  • (14) Qeshm is close to the Strait of Hormuz, a vital passageway in the Gulf where one-fifth of the world’s oil passes in tankers.
  • (15) Physiographic features may serve as barriers or as passageways for epidemic spread of rabies.
  • (16) Ceilings are higher, for better air; passageways are wider, for more loafing room and socialising.
  • (17) By the time the firing stopped, the gunmen had slipped away into the maze of corridors and passageways in the old building.
  • (18) Ken inclines his head in the direction of the passageway.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The passageway’s long corridor acts like a telescope without a lens, says Dr Fabio Silva.
  • (20) With 20 minutes left Iniesta played an impeccable pass with the outside of a foot through a passageway of defenders, Neymar opened up his body and side-footed into the corner.

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