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GATE, an opening into any enclosure for entrance or exit, capable of being closed by a barrier at will.
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Ishtar Gate (Reproduction)
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This photograph shows a full-scale reproduction of the legendary Isthar gateway, an important portal into Babylon.
Gate House - The complex of towers, bridges, and barriers built to protect each entrance through a castle or town wall.
Lych gate - A covered wooden gateway with open sides at the entrance to a churchyard, providing a resting-place for a coffin.
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Substance composed of low molecular weight molecules capable of reacting with like or unlike molecules to form a polymer.
Lych Gate
- gate structure, usually of timber with a roof and open sides, at the entry to a churchyard, and providing a resting place for coffins. (from lich, old English for a corpse) ...
side gate for defenders to go out on an attack; the postern was often used for this purpose
Saltire
diagonal, equal-limbed cross ...
Nauen Gate, Potsdam, 1755
Gothic House, Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm, 1774
Friedrichwerdersche Kirche, Berlin, 1824-30
Castle in Kamenz (now Kamieniec ZÄ…bkowicki in Poland), 1838-65
Burg Hohenzollern, 1850-67 ...
Field gate: A gate in the curtain wall leading out to the country surrounding a castle. See postern.
YETT: Iron gate.
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Wrought iron gate ornamentation - Albright Memorial Library, Scranton, Pa.
Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens, Greece (anthemion)
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moon gateA Moon Gate is circular aperture in a wall. The idea comes from Chinese gardens.
Building: Golden Gate
Date: ca. 390 Exterior view Building: Kariye Camii (Church of the Savior)
Date: 1316-21 Interior view of inner narthex, bay 1
Interior view of inner narthex, bay 2
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The frame for the gate or a passageway in a fence or exterior garden wall. In medieval times these were imposing structures built over entrances to provide defense and entrance control.
Baba Ganoud - Marrakech (13th c.)
Palace - Istanbul - Turkey ...
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Main gate and tower
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A wood and metal or metal gate, welded to form a giant grid that would slide down within the entrance of the gatehouse or hornwalk or barbican to reinforce the security of the door or to trap attackers.
Wicket - A small gate, a small door or gate forming part of a large one.
Wicket door - A small door for one person in the leaf of a large entrance door to a factory or a warehouse ...
And all the people were gathered together as one man to the street which is before the water gate, and they spoke to Esdras the scribe, to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.
Portal - A doorway, entrance or gate. One that is large and imposing.
Quatrefoil - An architectural ornament having four lobes or foils.
Rayonnant - A thirteenth-century slender radiant style from the court of Louis IX.
They post, or person watching the gate could look out the windows, and monitor the visitors to the city.
Normal modern street in Brugge with Belfry at the end.
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(a) an entrance to a temple or other enclosure; (b) the entry gate at the western end of the Acropolis, in Athens.
Protome (or protoma)
a representation of the head and neck of an animal, often used as an architectural feature.
A grating dropped vertically from grooves to block passage or gate in castle; of wood, metal or a combination of the two.
Rail - A minor horizontal structural member (e.g. of a balustrade, fence, gate, door or window). It may be top rail, intermediate rail or bottom rail.
Railing - A balustrade.
FINIAL A decorative piece set atop a spire, cupola, gable or gate post.
portcullis : A grating dropped vertically from grooves to block passage or gate in castle; of wood, metal or a combination of the two.
Because of the ease of contruction, the Tuscan mode became part of the vernacular Georgian style that has lingered in places like New England and Ohio deep into the 19th century. In gardening, "carpenter's Doric" which is Tuscan, provides gate posts ...
I also participate in music on the cello in the Golden Gate Philharmonic. I am involve in many musical activities ranging from the national cello institute to private lession with Sien Lee. I also really enjoy using the computer.
dripstone - a small, sometimes decorated stone incorporated into door or window jambs to throw rain water clear of the opening.
embattlements - A parapet with indentations or embrasures as seen here, at left, capping a medieval town gate.
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