puerta-reja

Phonetic: "/ɡeɪt/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A doorlike structure outside a house.

Definition: Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.

Definition: Movable barrier.

Example: The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.

Definition: A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.

Definition: The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.

Example: Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out.

Definition: The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.

Definition: (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.

Definition: Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.

Definition: The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

Definition: In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.

Definition: The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.

Definition: The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.

Definition: A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.

Definition: A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.

Phonetic: "/ɡeɪt/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.

Definition: To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.

Definition: To open a closed ion channel.

Definition: To furnish with a gate.

Definition: To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.

Phonetic: "/ɔv/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Expressing distance or motion.

Definition: Expressing separation.

Definition: Expressing origin.

Definition: Expressing agency.

Definition: Expressing composition, substance.

Definition: Introducing subject matter.

Definition: Having partitive effect.

Definition: Expressing possession.

Definition: Forming the "objective genitive".

Definition: Expressing qualities or characteristics.

Definition: Expressing a point in time.

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Not closed

Definition: Not physically drawn together, closed, folded or contracted; extended

Example: an open hand; an open flower

Definition: Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.

Example: Banks are not open on bank holidays.

Definition: Receptive.

Example: I am open to new ideas.

Definition: Public

Example: He published an open letter to the governor on a full page of the New York Times.

Definition: Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.

Example: The man is an open book.

Definition: (of a formula) Having a free variable.

Definition: (of a set) Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X.

Definition: (of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are different.

Definition: (of a file, document, etc.) In current use; mapped to part of memory.

Example: I couldn't save my changes because another user had the same file open.

Definition: Not fulfilled.

Example: I've got open orders for as many containers of red durum as you can get me.

Definition: Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.

Example: an open question

Definition: (stringed instruments) Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard.

Definition: (wind instruments) Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve.

Definition: Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.

Example: an open winter

Definition: (Of correspondence) Written or sent with the intention that it may made public or referred to at any trial, rather than by way of confidential private negotiation for a settlement. (Opposite of "without prejudice")

Example: You will observe that this is an open letter and we reserve the right to mention it to the judge should the matter come to trial.

Definition: Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.

Definition: Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.

Definition: (of a syllable) That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.

Definition: Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components.

Definition: Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Anything made wholly or largely of iron, especially when used for decoration.

Definition: An ironworks.