gates

Meanings

Noun

• United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)
• a movable barrier in a fence or wall
• a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
• total admission receipts at a sports event
• passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
• plural of gate

Verb

• supply with a gate
• control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
• restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
• third-person singular simple present indicative of gate

Synonyms

Bill Gates, gate, logic gate, William Henry Gates