gateway
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
gateway (plural gateways)
- An entrance capable of being blocked by use of a gate.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […] .
- A place regarded as giving access to somewhere.
- 2020 December 30, Richard Clinnick, “Greater Anglia strikes again...”, in Rail, page 43:
- The staff offer a touch of Norfolk courtesy as they guide passengers onto connecting services. The bustling concourse has a wide selection of information and retail, including a very active city tourism presence. This station now feels like a real gateway to Norwich.
- Any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another.
- (attributive) Any thing or area of interest that tends to lead to deeper involvement.
- 2000, Katharine Gates, Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex, page 137:
- Just as they say that marijuana leads to harder drugs, Gallegly is claiming that crush is a “gateway fetish”—a term I've never heard before. He claims that if someone starts with bugs they'll end up escalating to human babies in no time.
- 2012, Robert McRuer, Anna Mollow, Sex and Disability, page 327:
- According to Mellody, love addiction is a gateway addiction leading to additional addictions: to sex, food, drugs, alcohol, and so on.
- (attributive) Any thing or area of interest that tends to lead to deeper involvement.
- A point at which freight moving from one territory to another is interchanged between transportation lines.
- (computing, networking, telecommunications) In wireless internet, an access point with additional software capabilities such as providing NAT and DHCP, which may also provide VPN support, roaming, firewalls, various levels of security, etc.
Hyponyms
- (digital communication): default gateway
Derived terms
Translations
entrance
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point that represents the beginning of a transition
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point at which freight is interchanged between transportation lines
computer network access point
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Verb
gateway (third-person singular simple present gateways, present participle gatewaying, simple past and past participle gatewayed)
- (transitive, digital communications) To make available using a gateway, or access point.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From English.
Pronunciation
Noun
gateway m (plural gateways)