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Word Meanings - GATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might. The gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Matt. xvi. 18. 5. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into. The channel

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The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might. The gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Matt. xvi. 18. 5. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into. The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Gate chamber, a recess in the side wall of a canal lock, which receives the opened gate. -- Gate channel. See Gate, 5. -- Gate hook, the hook-formed piece of a gate hinge. -- Gate money, entrance money for admission to an inclosure. -- Gate tender, one in charge of a gate, as at a railroad crossing. -- Gate valva, a stop valve for a pipe, having a sliding gate which affords a straight passageway when open. -- Gate vein , the portal vein. -- To break gates , to enter a college inclosure after the hour to which a student has been restricted. -- To stand in the gate, or gates, to occupy places or advantage, power, or defense. (more info) door; akin to OS., D., & Icel. gat opening, hole, and perh. to E. 1. A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed. 2. An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit. Knowest thou the way to Dover Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath. Shak. Opening a gate for a long war. Knolles. 3. A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.

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    An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
  • PRELUDER
    One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason.
  • LEADING EDGE
    same as Advancing edge, above.
  • TAKING
    1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
  • TAKE
    Taken. Chaucer.
  • INDUCTION
    The act or process of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal; also, the result or inference so reached. Induction is an inference drawn from all the particulars. Sir W. Hamilton.
  • TAKE-OFF
    An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
  • LEADED
    Separated by leads, as the lines of a page. (more info) 1. Fitted with lead; set in lead; as, leaded windows.
  • INDUCTIONAL
    Pertaining to, or proceeding by, induction; inductive.
  • PRELIMINARY
    Introductory; previous; preceding the main discourse or business; prefatory; as, preliminary observations to a discourse or book; preliminary articles to a treaty; preliminary measures; preliminary examinations. Syn. -- Introductory; preparatory;
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    The prelude or introduction to the canon of the Mass. Addis & Arnold. Proper preface , a portion of the communion service, preceding the prayer of consecration, appointed for certain seasons. Syn. -- Introduction; preliminary; preamble; proem;
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    One who leads a dance. B. Jonson.
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    A machine built as an induction motor and driven above synchronous speed, thus acting as an alternating-current generator; - - called also asynchronous generator. Below synchronism the machine takes in electrical energy and acts as an induction
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    Imposition; fraud.
  • LEADSMAN
    The man who heaves the lead. Totten.
  • PORTICOED
    Furnished with a portico.
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    One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37.
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    See VESTIBULE
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    1. The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginnig; start. The time of Henry VII . . . nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed "modern history." 2. The day when degrees are conferred by colleges
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    Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction.
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    Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
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    To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
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    An error; a mistake. Shak.
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    The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some
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    Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.
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    1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. 2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of
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    Erroneously.
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    In a pleading manner.
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    See INTERPLEAD
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    Want or failure of importation; a not importing of commodities.
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    Except. R. of Brunne.
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    Plumbago; graphite.It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.
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