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[Tone]

Can I use these two words to replace each other?

What is exactly the difference between these two?

Thank you
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[bud]

A gate is usually outdoors. It's often like a door in that it swings open, but sometimes it's just a defined entryway (e.g., to a park or a military base). It's usually the entryway through a fence.

Sometimes there are portable fences that may have gates that people use indoors (to keep a toddler away from stairs, or to confine a pet to a specific area).

[Tone]

Thanks for your answer. I heard that we can distinguish between these two by the size?

Is it true that gates are bigger than doors?
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[2006]

Size is not a good way to decide whether it is a gate or a door.

As bud said, gates are outside and are usually associated with fences.

Doors are associated with walls, as in buildings. You enter a building through a door and you usually go from one room to another room through a door.

Vehicles like cars, buses and airplanes have doors.

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gate

gate

the brandenburg gate

door

door

church door

So we see: Generally doors are mostly made of wood and gate is mostly made of iron. You can look through gates but you can't look through doors.