Gate

This article is about the point of entry or exit. For other uses, see Gate (disambiguation) and Gateway (disambiguation).

Hand-carved wooden gate in Imecsfalva, Székely Land, Transylvania

A monumental gate of the Great Mosque of Kairouan also known as the Mosque of Uqba, in Kairouan, Tunisia.

A gate or gateway is a point of entry to a space which is enclosed by walls. Gates may prevent or control the entry or exit of individuals, or they may be merely decorative. Other terms for gate include yett and port. The word derives from the old Norse "gata", meaning road or path, and originally referred to the gap in the wall or fence, rather than the barrier which closed it. The moving part or parts of a gateway may be called "doors", but used for the whole point of entry door usually refers to the entry to a building, or an internal opening between different rooms.

A gate may have a latch to keep it from swinging and a lock for security. Larger gates can be used for a whole building, such as a castle or fortified town, or the actual doors that block entry through the gatehouse. Today, many gate doors are opened by an automated gate operator.

Types

Purpose-specific types of gate include:

• Baby gate a safety gate to protect babies and toddlers
• City gate of a walled city
• Hampshire gate (a.k.a. New Zealand gate, wire gate, etc.)
• Kissing gate on footpaths
• Lychgate with a roof
• Mon Japanese: gate. The religious torii compares to the Chinese pailou (paifang), Indian torana, and Korean hongsalmun. Mon are widespread, in Japanese gardens.
• Portcullis of a castle
• Slip gate on footpaths
• Turnstile
• Watergate of a castle by navigable water

Image gallery

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  This gate and massive gateposts has no locks—a gate marks a borderline in ownership/use and can allow passage.

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  A small, elegant gate to a meadow path

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  Ishtar Gate is the oldest city gate in existence

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  Wringin Lawang, a 14th-century Majapahit split gate in Trowulan

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  Richly decorated Balinese temple gate

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  This gate at Columbia University was closed to prevent entry of protesters

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  A gate at Kansai University, built in 1923

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  Malaysian King's Palace Gate, Kuala Lampur

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  Medieval ironclad city gate, from the Upper Gate in the old town of Ohrid

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  Chinese traditional type gate (iron gate in front of house) in Kerala, India

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  Gates decorate routes in the entrance of Muscat, Oman

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  Kuwait Gate, historically surrounded Kuwait City, built in 1929

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  Royal Military College of Canada front gates and gatehouse

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  Ernst Rudolph, By the Entrance

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  Decorative emblems of state are also fixed on gates to public buildings, old Royal Melbourne Mint

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  Gate of Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Bhavnagar, India

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  Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University gate on the eve of Namvistar Din celebrations reflects Ajanata art

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  Michael's Gate in Bratislava, Slovakia

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  St. Louis Gateway Arch

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  A Chinese Paifang at Foshan, China

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  Warsaw University main gate, Poland

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  Gate of Farm Gunsteling in Namibia (2017)

See also

• Bab (gateway)
• Barrier
• Border
• Gate tower
• Gopuram
• Leave the gate as you found it
• Portal (architecture)
• Portcullis
• Threshold (disambiguation)
• Triumphal arch
• List of scandals with "-gate" suffix
• Watergate, as used in politics

External links

• Photos and locations of gates and stiles in Britain