gate
- Top 3000
Sense 1
- noun
- A2
A door in a fence or wall that you open to walk or drive into a garden, field or yard.
Please shut the gate so the sheep cannot get out.
The old iron gate squeaked every time someone pushed it open.
A narrow gate behind the house leads straight to the orchard.
Common collocations: open the gate · shut the gate · garden gate · front gate · iron gate
Part of: The garden, Buildings and places
Sense 2 · less common
- noun
- B1
A place at an airport where you wait before you get on the plane.
Passengers for the delayed flight waited two hours near the gate.
We ran across the terminal and reached the gate just in time.
Staff at the gate scanned every boarding pass twice.
Common collocations: boarding gate · departure gate · gate number · at gate twelve · go to the gate
Part of: Airports and stations, Holidays