可以開關的那個出入口
這一支就是核心畫面的字面用法：實體的那道門，以及機場裡功能一模一樣的那個出口。
fence door · noun · A2
The part of a fence or wall that you can open and close so you can go in or out.
大門 / 柵門
核心畫面
The one opening in a wall or fence that can be opened and shut — the single place where going in or out is allowed, and where someone can stop you.
gate 的核心畫面可以想成「一道牆或圍籬上，唯一那個可以開、也可以關的開口」。它跟 door 的差別在於 door…更多收起
gate 的核心畫面可以想成「一道牆或圍籬上，唯一那個可以開、也可以關的開口」。它跟 door 的差別在於 door 是房子的門，gate 是圍起來的那一圈的門——外面和裡面之間只有這一個缺口。所以 gate 天生帶著兩層意思：它是「進出的地方」，也是「有人可以在這裡放行或攔下你」的地方。Three branches
從門進來的人與錢
球場只有幾個入口，所有人都得從那裡進來，所以「門」就成了最方便的計數器：站在門口數，數人就是人數，數錢就是票房。這兩個意思都是拿「門」代稱「從門通過的東西」。
match attendance · noun · A2
The number of people who come in to watch a sports match.
進場人數
把門關上，不准出去
動詞用的是核心畫面的另一半：門不只讓人過，也能關起來。既然出去只有這一個開口，把它關上就等於把人留在裡面。
confine as punishment · verb · A2
To stop a student from leaving the school grounds as a punishment for bad behaviour.
罰禁足（留校）
原始詞典資料33 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
GATEnoun/ɡeɪt/
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educationgifted and talented education
Gatename
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A ghost town in Scott County, Arkansas, United States.
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A tiny town in Beaver County, Oklahoma, United States.
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An unincorporated community in Thurston County, Washington, United States.
gatenoun詞源 1/ˈɡeɪ̯t/
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A doorlike structure outside a house.
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A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- At 7, he made his exit through the Ch‘ien-ch‘ing and the Lung-tsung gates, and thence, through the Yung-Hang Gate he entered the Tz‘u-ning Palace.
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A movable barrier.
- The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
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A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
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A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
- Lyons and Fisher's stations, who have spared nothing to ensure a success on this point, there is every reason to believe that the Northern Territory will soon be able to make a proper use of her geographical position, and become the gate of the East for all the Australian colonies.
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The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
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businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityThe controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
另外 11 個記錄的用法
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In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
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artscraftsengineeringThe channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
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The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
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ball-gamescricketgamesThe gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out.
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broadcastingcinematographyfilmA mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- After all, not using film has advantages other than cost: the curse of getting a hair in the gate (the rectangular opening at the front of a camera) is gone; the problem of getting dirt on the film swept away.
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A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
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A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
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An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
- It would encompass more than 500 acres and include a new theme park, several hotels, two mammoth parking garages with direct access from the freeway and a "third gate" — land set aside for future expansion.
- Disneyland opened its second gate – Disney's California Adventure. It was located exactly where Westcot would have been, directly across a central plaza from the Disneyland main gate.
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slangA place where drugs are illegally sold.
- The gangs were fighting for control of "drug gates," control points for the sale of crack cocaine, heroin and marijuana.
- I put more guns in East Coast niggas' hands than East Coast niggas did when they came out here. I put them niggas on to more weed gates and weed spots and safe havens and safe spots than the East Coast did.
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datedA man; a male person.
- Whatcha gonna say there, gate?
- He said, "Come on, gates, and jump with me / At the June Teenth Jamboree."
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businessminingA tunnel serving the coal face.
gateverb詞源 1/ˈɡeɪ̯t/
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To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
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datedhistoricalTo punish (a student) by not allowing to leave the college grounds.
- You climbed the wall, for which you ought to be gated; and finally, you came in blotto, for which you ought to be sent down.
- “I’ve missed two lectures already,” remarked Maurice, who was breakfasting in his pyjamas. “Cut them all — he’ll only gate you.”
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biochemistrybiologychemistryTo open (a closed ion channel).
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To furnish with a gate.
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To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
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To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).
- Lillian walked the halls wearing a shirt plastered with what she assured everyone was a memetic stun agent; it looked just like the kill agent gating access to the SCP-001 database file, but as she patiently explained to McInnis, in art, context is everything.
gatenoun詞源 2/ˈɡeɪ̯t/
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A way, path.
- I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate.
- "Stand out o' my gate, wife, for, d'ye see, I am rather in a haste, Jean Linton."
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obsoleteA journey.
- […] nought regarding, they kept on their gate, / And all her vaine allurements did forsake […]
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A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. “Briggate” (a common street name in the north of England meaning “Bridge Street”) or “Kirkgate” meaning “Church Street”.
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archaicdialectalManner; gait.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。