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A wall that changed its mind, hinged between keeping out and letting in.
means A movable barrier that opens or closes an entrance in a wall, fence, or other boundary.
from From Old English 'geat,' meaning an opening or passage, with roots in Proto-Germanic — a cousin of Old Norse 'gat' (an opening or hole) and Dutch 'gat.' The word's oldest sense was less about the door and more about the gap it filled; the swinging panel came to borrow the name of the opening it guarded. The northern English 'gate' meaning a street (as in York's many '-gates') is a separate strand, borrowed from Old Norse 'gata,' a road or way.
- word origin
- Old Norse gata meant path or street, not barrier
- scandal suffix
- Watergate spawned -gate for every disgrace since 1972
- airport limbo
- Gate numbers exist; gate 13 often quietly skipped
- logic core
- Logic gates inside chips decide everything your computer thinks
- golden gate
- The famous bridge is named for a strait, not a gate
golden gate bridge — suspension bridge completed 1937 spanning san francisco bay
gate of all nations — monumental gateway at persepolis built by xerxes i around 480 bce
brandenburger tor — neoclassical gate in berlin built 1791, symbol of german reunification