What is the verb for gate?

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gate

To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
To ground someone.
(biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.
(transitive) To furnish with a gate.
(transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.

gatekeep

(sociology) To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much role another party, often a spouse, has in some task.
To control or limit access to something.

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gatekeeping

“Resisting such gatekeeping may sometimes mean disrupting the cloak of collegiality that veils our everyday practices.”

“His days and the days of his unconstitutional gatekeeping are numbered, and he will soon pass into history like the ideological dinosaur he is.”

“Basic concepts such as news values and gatekeeping are referred to only tangentially.”

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