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A gate or gateway is a point of entry to or from a space enclosed by walls. The word derived from old Norse "gat"[1] meaning road or path; But other terms include yett and port. The concept originally referred to the gap or hole in the wall or fence, rather than a barrier which closed it. Gates may prevent or control the entry or exit of individuals, or they may be merely decorative. The moving part or parts of a gateway may be considered "doors", as they are fixed at one side whilst opening and closing like one.[2]
A gate may have a latch that can be raised and lowered to both open a gate or prevent it from swinging.[3] Locks are also used on gates to increase the security. Larger gates can be used for a whole building, such as a castle or fortified town. Actual doors can also be considered gates when they are used to block entry as prevalent within a gatehouse. Today, many gate doors are opened by an automated gate operator.
Purpose-specific types of gate
- Baby gate a safety gate to protect babies and toddlers
- City gate of a walled city
- Hampshire gate (a.k.a. New Zealand gate, wire gate, etc.)
- Kissing gate on footpaths
- Lychgate with a roof
- Mon Japanese: gate. The religious torii compares to the Chinese pailou (paifang), Indian torana, Indonesian Paduraksa and Korean hongsalmun. Mon are widespread, in Japanese gardens.
- Portcullis of a castle
- Race gates a gate used checkpoints on race tracks.
- Slip gate on footpaths
- Turnstile
- Watergate of a castle by navigable water
- Slalom skiing gates
Image gallery
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This gate and massive gateposts has no locks—a gate marks a borderline in ownership/use and can allow passage.
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A small, elegant gate to a meadow path
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Ishtar Gate is the oldest city gate in existence
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Wringin Lawang, a 14th-century Majapahit split gate, called "Candi bentar", in Trowulan, Java, Indonesia
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This gate at Columbia University was closed to prevent entry of protesters
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A gate at Kansai University, built in 1923
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Malaysian King's Palace Gate, Kuala Lampur
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Medieval ironclad city gate, from the Upper Gate in the old town of Ohrid
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Chinese traditional type gate (iron gate in front of house) in Kerala, India
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Gates decorate routes in the entrance of Muscat, Oman
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Kuwait Gate, historically surrounded Kuwait City, built in 1929
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Royal Military College of Canada front gates and gatehouse
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Ernst Rudolph, By the Entrance
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Decorative emblems of state are also fixed on gates to public buildings, old Royal Melbourne Mint
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Gate of Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Bhavnagar, India
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Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University gate on the eve of Namvistar Din celebrations reflects Ajanata art
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Michael's Gate in Bratislava, Slovakia
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St. Louis Gateway Arch
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Warsaw University main gate, Poland
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Gate of Farm Gunsteling in Namibia (2017)
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A Japanese temple gate (mon) at Eiheiji
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See also
- Barrier
- Boom barrier (a.k.a. boom gate)
- Border
- Gate tower
- Gopuram
- Leave the gate as you found it
- Portal (architecture)
- Portcullis
- Threshold (disambiguation)
- Triumphal arch
- List of scandals with "-gate" suffix
- Watergate, as used in politics
References
- ↑ gate | Origin and meaning of gate by Online Etymology Dictionary. www.etymonline.com. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
- ↑ GATE | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary. dictionary.cambridge.org. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
- ↑ Hardware 101: Gate Latches. Gardenista(2016-11-17). Retrieved 2019-04-20.