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GATES

5 letters

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Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

GATES is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

GATES root GATE-s

Word family

GATE 1 YATE 1 GATING 3 GATED-d 2

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GATINGS 5
noun
  1. A doorlike structure outside a house.
  2. A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
  3. A movable barrier.
    • The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
  4. A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
  5. A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
  6. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
  7. A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
  8. The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
  9. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
  10. The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
  11. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
  12. 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.
  13. A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
  14. A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
  15. A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
  16. An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
  17. slangA place where drugs are illegally sold.
  18. datedA man; a male person.
  19. A tunnel serving the coal face.
  20. ScotlandA way, path.
  21. obsoleteA journey.
  22. ScotlandA 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 Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
  23. ScotlandUKarchaicdialectalManner; gait.
verb
  1. transitiveTo keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
  2. datedhistoricaltransitiveTo punish (a student) by not allowing to leave the college grounds.
  3. transitiveTo open (a closed ion channel).
  4. transitiveTo furnish with a gate.
  5. transitiveTo turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
  6. transitiveTo selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).