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Noun: Gates  geyts
  1. United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)
    - Bill Gates, William Henry Gates
Noun: gate  geyt
  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
    - logic gate
     
  3. Total admission receipts at a sports event
     
  4. Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
Verb: gate  geyt
  1. (architecture) supply with a gate
    "The house was gated"
     
  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

Sounds like: gate, gates, g

Type of: bound, computer circuit, computer scientist, confine, control, enterpriser, entrepreneur, furnish, gross, limit, movable barrier, operate, passageway, provide, receipts, render, restrain, restrict, revenue, supply, throttle, trammel

Part of: air terminal, airport terminal

Encyclopedia: Gates, NY Gates, New York Gates, North Carolina Gates, David Gates Gates, Bill Gates, British Columbia Gates, OR Gates, Thomas Gates, West Virginia Gates, William Henry, III Gates, Tennessee Gates, Or Gates, Oregon Gates, TN

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