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Gates   /geɪts/   Listen
Gates

noun
1.
United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955).  Synonyms: Bill Gates, William Henry Gates.



Gate

noun
1.
A movable barrier in a fence or wall.
2.
A computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs.  Synonym: logic gate.
3.
Total admission receipts at a sports event.
4.
Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
verb
1.
Supply with a gate.
2.
Control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate.
3.
Restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment.



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"Gates" Quotes from Famous Books



... I've got to go into hiding till my beard and hair grow and I can reappear as a different man. Don't look, just now, but in a minute take a peek. Over on that third bench, on the other side of the park, see that man? Well, he's a 'shadow.' There were three waiting for me, at the prison gates. You couldn't spot them, but I could. One was that Italian banana-seller that stood at the curb, on the first corner. Another was a taxi driver. And this one, over there, is the third. From now till they 'get' me again, they'll follow me like bloodhounds. I can't go free, to do my work ...
— The Air Trust • George Allan England

... And the law of kindness is on her tongue. She looketh well to the ways of her household, And eateth not the bread of idleness. The heart of her husband trusteth in her; Her children rise up and call her blessed; Give her of the fruit of her hands; And let her works praise her in the gates." —PROVERBS. ...
— The Family and it's Members • Anna Garlin Spencer

... spare the time, to answer to these charges, and satisfy you of the injustice of my sentence. You can employ your practised eloquence on behalf of Zeus, and justify his conduct in nailing me up here at the Gates of the Caspian, for all Scythia to behold ...
— Works, V1 • Lucian of Samosata

... 10-m. Mithraic Mysteries belonged to Persia; description, 424-u. Mithraic Mysteries connected with the Heavenly Bodies, 507-l. Mithraic Mysteries flourished in the Roman Empire, 424-u. Mithraic Mysteries, gates marked at points of the Zodiac, 10-l. Mithraic Mysteries, ladder in the ceremony of initiation, 11-u. Mithras a symbol of the Sun, the Archimagus, 612-m. Mithras, a Tau cross inscribed on the forehead ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike

... The gates and front door were open, and there was a throng of people in the hall. Lucy caught hold of her with a sobbing, 'Oh, Mamma!' but she only framed the ...
— The Young Step-Mother • Charlotte M. Yonge


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