Crossword clues for gatekeeper
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate 2 A person or group who controls access to something or somebody 3 A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, ''Pyronia tithonus'', of the Nymphalidae family.
WordNet
n. someone who controls access to something; "there are too many gatekepers between the field officers and the chief"
someone who guards an entrance [syn: doorkeeper, doorman, door guard, hall porter, porter, ostiary]
Wikipedia
Gatekeeper or gatekeeping may refer to:
- Gatekeeping (communication), a person or organization who manages or constrains a flow of knowledge
- Gatekeeping (education), controlling the rate at which students progress to more advanced levels of study
- Gatekeeper physician, a primary care physician, with a role of rationing patient access to specialized medicine
- Gatekeeper state, a post-colonial state controlling access to resources
- GateKeeper (roller coaster), a roller coaster at Cedar Point
- Gatekeepers (game show), a Singaporean Chinese language game show
The gatekeeper (Pyronia tithonus), sometimes called the hedge brown, is most commonly found in South and East Britain, and confined to coastal areas of south and southeast Ireland. It is also found in the Channel Islands, but not in Scotland nor the Isle of Man. Given its preference for warmer weather, it can be assumed that the restriction of range expansion is due to climate. Colonies will vary in size depending on the available habitat, and can range from a few dozen to several thousand butterflies.
A gatekeeper is a person who controls access to something, for example via a city gate. In the late 20th century the term came into metaphorical use, referring to individuals who decide whether a given message will be distributed by a mass medium.
In boxing and mixed martial arts (MMA), a gatekeeper is a skillful and well-regarded fighter, but one who does not have the popularity or brilliance of a contender. They are considered to be a cut above most journeymen. A gatekeeper will often have an impressive record in terms of wins versus losses but will have a difficult time getting people behind them and especially obtaining promotion. An example from boxing is heavyweight New Yorker Monte Barrett, known for having tough matches with popular heavyweight stars yet failing to obtain the main title himself for a long time despite his best efforts.
Gatekeeper is a security feature of the OS X operating system by Apple. It enforces code signing to prevent downloaded applications from running, to reduce the likelihood of inadvertently executing malware. Gatekeeper builds upon File Quarantine, which was introduced in Mac OS X Leopard. The feature originated in version 10.7.3 of Mac OS X Lion as the command-line utility spctl. A graphical user interface was added in OS X Mountain Lion and later also in version 10.7.5 of Lion.
GateKeeper is a steel roller coaster located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. Designed by Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M), it was the fifth Wing Coaster installation in the world. The ride opened on May 11, 2013, on the most successful opening weekend to date in the park's history. GateKeeper features the highest inversion in the world, with its Wing Over drop. It has broken several Wing Coaster records, including those for height, speed, track length, drop height and number of inversions. The coaster has a , 40-degree inclined lift hill with a drop and features two support towers with keyhole elements that the trains travel through. Its top speed is approximately .
Construction began in September 2012 and took roughly eight months to complete. The park built a new entrance plaza featuring the keyhole towers as the centerpiece. The roller coaster replaced Disaster Transport and Space Spiral, both demolished during the summer of 2012, bringing Cedar Point back to its former total of 16 roller coasters. It was Cedar Point's first new roller coaster since Maverick debuted in 2007, and the third B&M coaster in the park following Raptor (1994) and Mantis (1996). In 2013, GateKeeper was the most frequently-ridden roller coaster at Cedar Point, and it ranked 28th among steel roller coasters in the annual Golden Ticket Awards poll from Amusement Today.
Usage examples of "gatekeeper".
First, the consumer must get past denials of its customer service gatekeepers.
The bribe should have been at least ten dinars, but by feigning stupidity until the last possible moment, the driver forced the gatekeeper to weigh the chances of getting a larger bribe from the loudly honking sheik in the sand car behind who seemed about to take his business to the next booth over against the possibility of losing a profit entirely on this cycle of the lock.
There was a coterie of wardersa gloved private gatekeeper in a blue uniform with the sanatorium crest, plus a sturdy middle-aged plainclothesman in a sensible vested suit and a greatcoat and a velour hat, and a bright young fellow in a sportcoat and topper whom Michaelmas recognized as a minor UNAC press staff man.
The gatekeeper had told one of the vicars that at dawn a man in mourning had handed over a fair-haired girl dressed like a queen, but she had learned nothing more about her because just at that moment the beggars were fighting over the Palm Sunday cassava soup.
It is a position of trust and honor, and only archmagithose of noble birth who have attained their high rank through years of service and studycan become Gatekeepers.
Enkidu's shouts and bangings brought neither notice nor reply from the gatekeeper, if indeed there were one.
They raced in before the gatekeepers could raise the drawbridges, and thus burst past the first two barbicans.
BODO: (echoing from the Holocron) I am Bodo Baas, Gatekeeper of the Holocron.
At his destination he was met, not by Demi, but by a plump youth in a bulbous washable jacket, son of gatekeeper or gamekeeper.
Eratosthenes nodded to the gatekeeper and walked up the palm-lined entrance toward the central gardens.
The usual protocol is for us to order the consults if the patient does not have an AmeriCare gatekeeper.
At the gates of the railway yards he showed his pass to the gatekeeper and went through to park the Morris outside the restrooms for off-duty firemen and engine drivers.
Guardian spells all over the world would be freaking out, alerting the Gatekeeper and the Council of something like that.
But the gatekeepers didn't appear to be paying any special attention to him.
When the young men at the gate had informed Beau they were there, Beau told the gatekeepers to hold them back for fifteen minutes to give Beau a chance to walk out to where the driveway entered the trees.