You can make 22 words from gate according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
All 4 letters words made out of gate
gate agte gtae tgae atge tage gaet aget geat egat aegt eagt gtea tgea geta egta tega etga ateg taeg aetg eatg teag etag
Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word gate. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in gate.
Definitions and meaning of gate
gate
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ɡeɪt/
Rhymes: -eɪt
Homophone: gait
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishgate, gat, ȝate, ȝeat, from Old Englishġeat(“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic*gat, from Proto-Germanic*gatą(“hole, opening”).
See also Old Norsegat, Swedish and Dutchgat, Low GermanGaat, Gööt.
Alternative forms
yate (obsolete or dialectal)
Noun
gate (pluralgates)
A doorlike structure outside a house.
A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
Synonyms:doorway, entrance, passage
A movable barrier.
The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
(computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
Synonym:logic gate
(electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
(metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
(cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
(cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
(flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
(slang) A place where drugs are illegally sold.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
gate (third-person singular simple presentgates, present participlegating, simple past and past participlegated)
(transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
(transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
Synonym:ground
(transitive, biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.
(transitive) To furnish with a gate.
(transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
Derived terms
gater
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old Norsegata, from Proto-Germanic*gatwǭ. Cognate with Danishgade, Swedishgata, GermanGasse(“lane”). Doublet of gait.
Noun
gate (pluralgates)
(now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
(obsolete) A journey.
(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 Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".