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

Types of gates include:

• Baby gate
• City gate
• Hampshire gate
• Kissing gate
• Lychgate
• Slip gate
• Mon, Japanese gates of many varieties including the Torii
• Turnstile
• Watergate
• Gates are not considered doors in property preservation

Image gallery

• This gate does not prevent entry but clearly suggests a borderline

• A small but elegant gate to a meadow path

• Ishtar Gate is the oldest city gate in existence

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

• Richly decorated Balinese temple gate

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

• This gate at Kansai University, built in 1923

• Malaysian King's Palace Gate, Kuala Lampur

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

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

• Gates decorate routes in the entrance of Muscat, Oman

• Kuwait Gate, historically surrounded Kuwait City, built in 1929

• Royal Military College of Canada front gates and gatehouse

• Ernst Rudolph By the Entrance

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

• Gate of Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Bhavnagar, India

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

• Michael's Gate in Bratislava, Slovakia

• St Louis Gateway Arch

• A Chinese Paifang at Foshan, China

• Warsaw University main gate, Poland

See also

• Bab (Gateway)
• Barrier
• Border
• Gate tower
• Gateway (disambiguation)
• Gopuram
• Leave the gate as you found it
• Portcullis
• Threshold (disambiguation)
• Triumphal arch