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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.

Postern


Definition:

  • (n.) Originally, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate.
  • (n.) A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks.
  • (a.) Back; being behind; private.

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