gate

A door in a fence or wall that opens to let people or vehicles through.

• Please close the gate.
• He opened the garden gate for us.
• Is the gate locked at night?

Common phrases: garden gate, open the gate, through the gate, front gate

An electronic part that combines or changes signals according to a simple rule.

• This gate has two inputs.
• The circuit needs another logic gate.
• An AND gate produces an output only when both inputs are active.

Similar words: logic circuit

Common phrases: logic gate, and gate, or gate, nand gate

To control who can enter, reach, or use something.

• They gate access with a password.
• The site gates its videos behind a subscription.
• Entry to the laboratory is gated by a security system.

How to use it: gate something behind something (The company gates its reports behind a paid membership.); gate something with something (We gate access with a login screen.)

Similar words: restrict, control

Common phrases: gate access, gate the content, gate something behind something