GATE

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Traducere în limba română

gate I. substantiv

1. poartă, portiţă; uşă cu zăbrele;

(fig.) gate of hell poarta iadului;

(fig.) to give the gate a concedia, a da afară;

(fig.) to get the gate a fi concediat, a fi dat afară.

2. (fig.) poartă, deschizătură; intrare.

3. barieră.

4. (sport) număr de spectatori; reţetă, taxă de intrare.

5. trecătoare în munţi;

the Iron Gates Porţile de Fier.

6. the Gate (ist.) Poarta, Înalta Poartă (turcească).

7. (tehn.) scut; încuietoare, zăvor, supapă.

8. stavilă, zăgaz.

9. plural ora la care se închid porţile noaptea (la Oxford şi Cambridge).

gate II. verb tranzitiv

1. a pune porţi la.

2. a consemna (studenţi, la Oxford şi Cambridge).

The guards that stood at the castle gate were called in: but they had seen no one.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

The carrier put my box down at the garden-gate, and left me.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

"I know it will. Happy Amy!" and Jo sighed, then smiled brightly as Professor Bhaer opened the gate with an impatient push.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

He is, or was last night, at the Fighting Cock Inn, about two miles from your park gate.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It opens the gate to me.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

As she spoke, and it was with expression, she walked to the gate: he followed her.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

She turned through the same gate, but could not see them.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

She had turned away; but on hearing herself called, though in a voice which proved it to be Mr. Darcy, she moved again towards the gate.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

The gates stand open, and there are three thousand of them within the walls.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“My first enjoyment,” replied John Knightley, as they passed through the sweep-gate, “will be to find myself safe at Hartfield again.”

(Emma, de Jane Austen)