Le mot anglais du jour

gate

portail

Définitions

anglais > français
gate
1. n. Portail.
Gate in a fence.
Portail dans une clôture.
2. n. Porte.
Airport gate.
Porte d'aéroport.
anglais > anglais
gate
1. n. A doorlike structure outside a house.
2. n. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
3. n. Movable barrier.
The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
4. n. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
5. n. (cricket) The 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.
6. n. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
7. n. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
8. n. Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
9. n. (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
10. n. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
11. n. (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
12. n. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
13. n. (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
14. n. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
15. v. To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
16. v. To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
17. v. (biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.Alberts, Bruce; et al. "Figure 11-21: The gating of ion channels." In: Molecular Biology of the Cell, ed. Senior, Sarah Gibbs. New York: Garland Science, 20
18. v. To furnish with a gate.
19. v. To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.
20. n. (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
21. n. (obsolete) A journey.
22. n. (Scotland, Northern England) 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 Ki
23. n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.
français > anglais
portail
1. n-m. portal (imposing entrance)
2. n-m. (Internet) portal
3. n-m. gate
portail tournant - swing gate
4. n-m. (figuratively) portal (entry point)