(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.
Portcullis
Definition:
(n.) A grating of iron or of timbers pointed with iron, hung over the gateway of a fortress, to be let down to prevent the entrance of an enemy.
(n.) An English coin of the reign of Elizabeth, struck for the use of the East India Company; -- so called from its bearing the figure of a portcullis on the reverse.
(v. t.) To obstruct with, or as with, a portcullis; to shut; to bar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Buckingham Palace was drawn into the dispute when it was revealed that Pownall had sought advice from the Lord Chamberlain, a key officer in the royal household, on the potential misuse of the portcullis emblem due to it being the property of the Queen.
(2) Earlier Davies had raised laughter in the Grimond Room in Westminster's Portcullis House when he asked the judge, recently promoted to president of the Queen's Bench Division, whether he had any "regrets" about his report.
(3) "The gentleman, opening the circular, hinged portcullis on the front of his helmet, offered his services; and perceiving that her modesty declined what her situation rendered necessary, took her up in his arms without further delay and carried her down the hill."
(4) 9.31am GMT We're underway, with Adrian Bailey asking the six bankers present to explain how the process of becoming an adviser to the float worked.... 9.28am GMT Watch the session here The BIS committee hearing should start shortly, in the Grimond Room at Portcullis House.
(5) Companies at the forefront of plans to build new reactors, such as EDF and Centrica, have said they will attend the meeting at Portcullis House, next to the Houses of Parliament.
(6) Oh, and there was a small demonstration outside Portcullis House during the session.
(7) Paramjit drops us off outside Portcullis House at 1.45pm, 22 minutes after we set off.
(8) Monckton argues his use of the portcullis emblem, which has appeared on his letterheads and lecture presentations, does not breach any rules: "My logo is not a registered badge of parliament, and is plainly distinct from parliament's badge in numerous material respects.
(9) Business cards It was during one of their MoD meetings in June that Fox told his friend to stop using business cards with the portcullis emblem saying he was one of Fox's advisers, he said.
(10) And they’re probably some of those who do very well as a result of joining the military.” In March this year, about 100 specialists gathered at Portcullis House, opposite the Houses of Parliament, to launch a review into the number of veterans caught up in the criminal justice system.
(11) Especially not one that means he has to leave his throne in Portcullis House to address a disloyal subject from the backbenches.
(12) Ask the MPs here" - he sweeps an arm across the foyer at Portcullis House - "and there are a large number who are appalled but are loyal to the leader and haven't spoken out about it."
(13) Much of ICIJ's analysis focused on the work of two major offshore incorporation firms, Portcullis TrustNet and Commonwealth Trust Limited (CTL).
(14) They might not have been playing the theme from "Rocky" in the Grimond Room, Portcullis House, the setting for today's meeting of the home affairs committee, but the star witness, Brodie Clark , was still expected to come out swinging.
(15) I ask, in her office on the ground floor of Portcullis House, the next day.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘I’m jumping out of the plane and hoping the parachute opens’ ... David Blunkett in his office at Portcullis House.
(17) To answer, let’s go through the three stages of politics — the fanciful, the practical and the cynical — because it’s always funnier when the portcullis drops down on a bunch of bodies after they thought they were going to get into the castle.
(18) "Are we in an age – when police, journalists, politicians have all shown they've got substantial things to hide – when we want to send out the message that we are going to start lowering the portcullis of secrecy again?"
(19) The Lords do not use the portcullis at all on their notepaper: they use the Royal Arms within an elliptical cartouche."
(20) "The real work, the constructive work," as Norton puts it, happens in the atrium of Portcullis House, in the Pugin room, in hallways and quiet corners.