gateway

See also: Gateway

English

Etymology

From gate +‎ way.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeɪtˌweɪ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

gateway (plural gateways)

2. A passage that can be closed 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, […] .

3. 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.

4. Any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another.
   1. (attributive) Any thing or area of interest that tends to lead to deeper involvement.

      a gateway drug

      • 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.

5. A point at which freight moving from one territory to another is interchanged between transportation lines.
6. (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

• Gateway to the West
• gateway community
• gateway drug
• Ketchikan Gateway Borough

Translations

entrance

• Assamese: পদূলি (poduli)
• Bulgarian: вход (bg) m (vhod), врата (bg) f (vrata)
• Catalan: passarel·la (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 門口／门口 (zh) (ménkǒu), 入口 (zh) (rùkǒu)

• Danish: indgangsport c, indgangspotal c
• Finnish: portti (fi)
• French: porte (fr) f, passerelle (fr) f
• Galician: pasadoiro m, pondra f, poldra (gl) f
• Georgian: შესასვლელი (šesasvleli), კარი (ka) (ḳari), კარიბჭე (ḳaribč̣e)
• German: Einfahrt (de) f, Tor (de) n, Zugang (de) m
• Greek: πύλη (el) f (pýli)
• Italian: porta (it) f, entrata (it) f, varco (it) m
• Japanese: 通路 (ja) (つうろ, tsūro), 入り口 (ja) (いりぐち, iriguchi)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: waharoa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: inngangsport m

  Nynorsk: inngangsport m

• Russian: вход (ru) m (vxod), воро́та (ru) n pl (voróta), шлюз (ru) m (šljuz) (sluice)
• Spanish: portal (es), puerta (es), verja (es), entrada (es), salida (es)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: giriş (tr), kapı (tr)
• Tày: cạm
• Vietnamese: cổng vào

point that represents the beginning of a transition

• Finnish: portti (fi)
• Galician: estoa f, ástrago m, portal m
• Georgian: გასასვლელი (gasasvleli), გადასასვლელი (gadasasvleli)
• Italian: portale (it) m
• Swedish: port (sv) c, inkörsport (sv) c

point at which freight is interchanged between transportation lines

• Finnish: terminaali (fi)
• Italian: terminal (it) m
• Russian: термина́л (ru) m (terminál)

computer network access point

• Catalan: passarel·la (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 網關／网关 (zh) (wǎngguān), 閘道器／闸道器 (zhádàoqì)

• Finnish: yhdyskäytävä (fi)
• French: gateway (fr) m, passerelle (fr) f
• German: Gateway n, Protokollumsetzer m
• Greek: πύλη δικτύου f (pýli diktýou)
• Indonesian: gerbang (id)
• Italian: gateway (it) m
• Japanese: ゲートウェイ (ja) (gētowei)
• Russian: шлюз (ru) m (šljuz), порт (ru) m (port)
• Swedish: förmedlingsnod c, nätsluss, gateway (sv) c
• Turkish: ağ geçidi (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} pordego
• French: ^{(please verify)} porte (fr), ^{(please verify)} passerelle (fr), ^{(please verify)} transition (fr)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} pórtico (es)
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} porth (cy), ^{(please verify)} giat (cy)

Verb

gateway (third-person singular simple present gateways, present participle gatewaying, simple past and past participle gatewayed)

1. (transitive, digital communications) To make available using a gateway, or access point.

Anagrams

• get away, get-away, getaway, waygate

French

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛ.twɛ/ ~ /ɡe.twɛ/

Noun

gateway m (plural gateways)

1. (Internet) gateway