Word Finder - gateway

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An entrance capable of being blocked by use of a gate.

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Any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another.

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

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(digital communications) 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.

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(digital communications) To make available via a gateway, or access point.

A shockwave exploded from the gateway and knocked her back.

The gateway closed behind him.

The gateway yawned open over the monument.

We leave the gateway between the two open, so she can access Hell's magic.

Near the desert gateway between worlds, Darian found his rhythm.

Just tell him the gateway can't be closed.

My kind always thought there was a way to reopen that gateway, and a few days ago, the gateway ruptured.

The Others have a gateway to the mortal world there.

He'd be able to read her mind and confirm she was indeed intent on destroying the gateway between the realms.

The gateway between realms is cracked, and I have a slight Watcher infestation problem.

Before Ireland, there was one gateway into the mortal world.

He reached forward and rested his hand where the gateway had been.

There are remains of a Moorish fort on the hill commanding the town; and the north gateway - the Puerta del Colegio - is a fine lofty arch, surmounted by an emblematic statue and the city arms. The most prominent buildings are the episcopal palace (1733), with a frontage of a 600 ft.; the town house (1843), containing important archives; and the cathedral, a small Gothic structure built on the site of a former mosque in the 14th century, and enlarged and tastelessly restored in 1829.

He lowered the soup, and their arms brushed, opening the gateway for energy between them.

It was a time of great tumult, and the gateway between the two realms was sealed away for eternity, he explained.

The gateway between worlds is barely holding up.

She walked through the gateway and imagined herself as important as the White God walking into his palace.

Before your battle with the Other in Ireland, there was only one gateway open.

The only part of his life that had been good lay beyond the gateway in front of him.  No, he told himself.

I'll find their gateway and hunt them down one by one.

He rolled, startled to see two people come through the gateway where no one had been before.

There remains also the Perpendicular gateway, serving as the town-hall.

The most remarkable Roman building in Trier is the Porta Nigra, the north gate of the city, a huge fortified gateway, 115 ft.

Of a Benedictine abbey there remain a beautiful Perpendicular gateway, and ruins of buildings called the prior's house, mainly Early English, and the guest house, with other fragments.

On an eminence stands the ancient castle, entered by a gateway of the 13th century.

Of the first the Tudor gateway opens upon Chancery Lane.

Tampa is the principal gateway for trade and travel between the United States and the West Indies.

A gateway flanked by turrets (14th century) is a relic of the Hotel de Guise, built as a gild hall for the English woolstaplers, and given to the duke of Guise as a reward for the recapture of Calais.

You're going to open the gateway.

Traveling to the portal between worlds, the guardsman took one last look around then dropped through the gateway to the immortal world.

Instinct took over, urging her towards the gateway.

She picked up a rock and threw it into the center of the gateway.

The name is especially given to the great entrance hall of the Acropolis at Athens, which was begun in 437 B.C. by Pericles, to take the place of an earlier gateway.

The great gateway, the Porta della Carta, was added in 1439-42 from designs by Bartholomeo Buono (or Bon) and his son.

She was worshipped, under the form of a conical stone, in an open-air sanctuary of the usual Cypriote type (not unlike those of Mycenaean Greece), the general form of which is known from representations on late gems, and on Roman imperial coins;' its ground plan was discovered by excavations in 1888.2 It suffered repeatedly from earthquakes, and was rebuilt more than once; in Roman times it consisted of an open court, irregularly quadrangular, with porticos and chambers on three sides, and a gateway through them on the east.

Several old houses, some remains of the medieval ramparts and the Tour de l'Horloge, an ancient gateway, are also preserved.

The antiquities include remains of a gateway, a theatre and baths, as well as numerous inscriptions.

The mosque at Fatehpur-Sikri possesses in its great southern gateway, built by Akbar in the second half of the 16th century, the masterpiece of IndoSaracenci architecture.

The abbey church belonged to the 13th century, but only a gateway flanked by two massive towers is left.

The Eure, which at this point divides into three branches, is crossed by several bridges, some of them ancient, and is fringed in places by remains of the old fortifications, of which the Porte Guillaume (14th century), a gateway flanked by towers, is the most complete specimen.

Bosnia was regarded by successive sultans as the Turkish gateway into Hungary; hatred of the Hungarians and their religion was hereditary among the Bogomils.

Five miles south-east of Tunbridge Wells is Bayham Abbey, founded in 1200, where ruins of a church, a gateway, and dependent buildings adjoin the modern Tudor mansion.

The sacred road from Epidaurus, which is flanked by tombs, approaches the precinct through a gateway or propylaea.

It has extensive remains of fortifications of the 13th century, the most remarkable feature of which is the Porte de Laon, a gateway flanked by massive towers and surmounted by a fine a,partmmt.

On the south of the gateway is a 13th-century building, known as the Spanish barn.

A well-preserved gateway of red sandstone and portions of two towers of the castle are included in the buildings of the present gaol, and the old parish church of St Peter contains some interesting monuments, amongst them being the altar tomb (of the 6th century) of Sir Rhys ap Thomas, K.G., and his wife, which was removed hither for safety at the Reformation from the desecrated church of the neighbouring Priory of St John.

Two hundred yards east of the mansion is an ancient gateway, supposed to have led to the old House of Scone, and near it stands the cross of Scone, removed hither from its original site in the town.

Only the gateway and certain apartments remain of the Tudor building.

From this time the town, on account of its favourable commercial and strategic position at the gateway of the Iroquois country and at the head of navigation on the Hudson river, was for a century and a half one of the most important places in the colonies.

The most famous of Hittite reliefs is here - a double-headed eagle " displayed " on the flank of one of the gateway sphinxes.