What's the difference between gateway and router?

Gateway


Definition:

  • (n.) A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) George Osborne told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show: "We have got to make some tough decisions, but the priority is healthcare, children's education, early years provision and the big infrastructure developments like Crossrail, Mersey Gateway, the synchrotron, broadband.
  • (2) Paying over the odds, each was determined to build what they imagined would be the ultimate gateway to the Games.
  • (3) [Burma] is considered the front line in the battle against artemisinin resistance as it forms a gateway for resistance to spread to the rest of the world,” said Woodrow, who led the Oxford study.
  • (4) Using land lines, modems and network gateways, many such quite distinct computer programs or databases can be made accessible from a single terminal.
  • (5) Kangerlussuaq, the "gateway to Greenland" in the southwest, reached 24.6C on 10 July, just as the record melt reported by Nasa was under way.
  • (6) And ecstasy was a breakthrough, a gateway to a new way of living and being.
  • (7) But it is all merely worthless and meaningless froth while the city council permits a gateway to hell to do brisk business just a few streets away.
  • (8) A principal gateway for integrating the autonomic responses are a small collection of neurons in a region of the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVL), containing a cluster of neurons of the C1 adrenergic cell group, the C1 area.
  • (9) But in a worrying step towards greater censorship, the junta announced on Wednesday that it would establish a "national internet gateway" to better monitor websites and social media platforms, and told local media it would be requesting Facebook, YouTube and the chat application Line to ban user accounts with "illegal" content, the news portal Prachatai reported .
  • (10) Together they form the gateway to the vast Oil Crescent, a series of oilfields stretching hundreds of miles through the Sahara containing Africa’s largest reserves.
  • (11) It was a highly provocative gesture that did nothing to assuage fears that Morsi’s election marked the gateway to a more extremist Egypt.
  • (12) Putting BBC3 online feeds into Hall's desire to ramp up the iPlayer, which he sees not as a useful spin-off for catching up on programmes a viewer might have missed, but a "gateway" which (younger) viewers and listeners will increasingly use to access all of the BBC's programmes.
  • (13) Treasury insiders said they were already involved in talks with 30 companies over the proposed projects, including proposals for the £600m Mersey Gateway project, a six-lane toll bridge between Widnes and Runcorn.
  • (14) Kinshasa was the gateway for all the riches of what was then called the Belgian Congo, as rubber, gems, minerals, ivory and exotic woods made their way out of the country.
  • (15) Each child needs a health assessment and subsequent care.” There are already 4,029 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Britain, most of them in the “gateway” authorities of Kent, Croydon and Hillingdon.
  • (16) The town itself also marks a strategic gateway connecting Damascus to the Syrian south.
  • (17) Those "other radical groups," as Oliver dismissively referred to them, must be the more than 60 first nations (aboriginal bands) of British Columbia that have signed a declaration saying "we will not allow the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines or other similar tar sands projects to cross our lands, territories and watersheds, or the ocean migration routes of Fraser River salmon."
  • (18) The outer gateway was repeatedly struck by shells as the rebels tried to capture the citadel, though again each side accused the other of causing the damage.
  • (19) The closest rail is the Docklands Light Railway station at Tower Gateway (handy for east London).
  • (20) It may also become a gateway to other information networks.

Router


Definition:

  • (n.) A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
  • (n.) A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) HIV-1 was cultured from cool aerosols and vapors generated by a 30,000 RPM spinning router tip, an instrument similar to the Midas Rex and the Stryker oscillating bone saw.
  • (2) Nominum said over a single day in February more than 5.3m of the routers running the feature were used to generate attack traffic in Asia.
  • (3) The reason this is so scary is because virtually every bit of kit that runs the internet – the machine on which you compose your emails, the tablet or smartphone with which you browse the net, the routers that pass on the data packets that comprise your email or your web search, everything – is a computer.
  • (4) But it is not your internet connection, your router or your computer – the internet is staging a protest.
  • (5) Gramofon buyers will also become Fon members, able to access the company's network of hotspots – although as with Fon's existing routers, this means "sharing a bit of Wi-Fi at home" – allowing other Fon members within range to use their internet connection.
  • (6) A sensible way to combat such interference would be to switch my router off for a few hours or download one of the increasing range of software packages that lock you out of Facebook and Twitter – or, like Sean French, one half of the bestselling crime writing novelist duo Nicci French — build a writing shed just out of broadband range.
  • (7) The lawsuit challenges the “suspicionless seizure and searching of internet traffic” by the NSA in the US that it says is done by “tapping directly into the internet backbone inside the United States – the network of high-capacity cables, switches, and routers that today carry vast numbers of Americans’ communications with each other and with the rest of the world.” The NSA’s so-called “Upstream” surveillance scheme – first revealed by the Guardian and the Washington Post – is designed to capture communications with “non-US persons” to acquire foreign intelligence information.
  • (8) Freedom Hosting hosted sites on the The Onion Router (Tor) network, which anonymises and encrypts traffic, masking the identity of users.
  • (9) At the press of a button you should be able to hear whatever content you like around your house, and it shouldn’t be a significant technological process of how to set stuff up and how to use it.” There are significant hurdles to getting to the point where “it just works”, not least the wide variety of Wi-Fi home setups which often include cheap, poor Wi-Fi routers provided by internet service providers.
  • (10) Or how about Cisco, whose routers have been used to build China's Great Firewall , which keeps the majority of its citizens in wilful ignorance of the opinions of the world beyond its shores?
  • (11) He wrote that the exemption "was created to avoid a situation in which the copies made, for example, in a router as it passes data from one machine to another, were infringing and therefore became the focus of legal actions or problems."
  • (12) In another case you won't need any authentication at all to compromise the whole database [by sending malicious commands to the database].” • Wifi routers could be exploited for huge internet attacks in the UK - study
  • (13) The Cell site was set up at the company's expense to ensure the integrity of Huawei's products, which include routers used across the UK's fibre-optic cable network.
  • (14) It plugs into the router and drains power, but seems to make little difference.
  • (15) I lock my phone and my router cable in my safe so I'm completely free from any interruption and I can spend the entire day, weekend or week reading and writing.
  • (16) In a post on its European Public Policy blog on 27 April, Google stated that although it does gather wifi network names (SSIDs) and identifiers (Mac addresses) for devices like network routers, it does not gather "payload" data passed through those wifi networks.
  • (17) Meanwhile in a quarry in Carrara outside Rome, the decorative features of the Bel temple uprights are being etched by a CNC router-engraver.
  • (18) For example, the recent rise in productivity in the service sector has happened mainly because it is using more advanced inputs produced in the manufacturing sector – computers, fibre-optic cables, routers, GPS machines, more fuel-efficient cars, mechanised warehouses and so on.
  • (19) As many as 24m routers across the world can be used by cybercriminals to launch massive attacks on internet infrastructure, while simultaneously disrupting home connections and costing communications companies dearly.
  • (20) It also holds great promise for cybercriminals who can use our homes' routers, televisions, refrigerators and other Internet-connected devices to launch large and distributed attacks", said Michael Osterman, principal analyst at Osterman Research.