gate off
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.45 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To turn something off by controlling its gate.
Example Sentences
- "[The dog] was set up in a crate in the dining room, which was gated off from the rest of the house."
- "He had recently bought a piece of land through which ran a much-used trail to a public beach. He gated it off and the local community was outraged."
- "When the current exceeds the limit, the controller gates off the transistor."
- "The clock is gated off during standby mode."
- "A site that carried [sexually explicit] material, but that gated it off from children through credit cards or other mechanisms to verify the age of the user, would have an acceptable defense under the act."
- "When we situate climax during intercourse as the bullseye, we gate off the idiosyncrasy and experimentation that are the wellspring of sexual pleasure."