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Gates Gates

Spelling: [geyts]

IPA: /geɪts/

Gates is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in Gates (aegst).

Definitions for Gates

noun

1. Horatio, 1728–1806, American Revolutionary general, born in England.
2. William ("Bill") born 1956, U.S. entrepreneur.
3. a movable barrier, usually on hinges, closing an opening in a fence, wall, or other enclosure.
4. an opening permitting passage through an enclosure.
5. a tower, architectural setting, etc., for defending or adorning such an opening or for providing a monumental entrance to a street, park, etc.:
6. any means of access or entrance:
7. a mountain pass.
8. any movable barrier, as at a tollbooth or a road or railroad crossing.
9. a gateway or passageway in a passenger terminal or pier that leads to a place for boarding a train, plane, or ship.
10. a sliding barrier for regulating the passage of water, steam, or the like, as in a dam or pipe; valve.
11. Skiing. an obstacle in a slalom race, consisting of two upright poles anchored in the snow a certain distance apart. the opening between these poles, through which a competitor in a slalom race must ski.
12. the total number of persons who pay for admission to an athletic contest, a performance, an exhibition, etc.
13. the total receipts from such admissions.
14. Cell Biology. a temporary channel in a cell membrane through which substances diffuse into or out of a cell.
15. Movies. film gate.
16. a sash or frame for a saw or gang of saws.
17. Metallurgy. Also called ingate. a channel or opening in a mold through which molten metal is poured into the mold cavity. the waste metal left in such a channel after hardening.
18. Electronics. a signal that makes an electronic circuit operative or inoperative either for a certain time interval or until another signal is received. Also called logic gate. a circuit with one output that is activated only by certain combinations of two or more inputs.
19. Archaic. a path; way.
20. North England and Scot.. habitual manner or way of acting.

Idioms

1. get the gate, Slang. to be dismissed, sent away, or rejected.
2. give (someone) the gate, Slang. to reject (a person), as one's fiancé, lover, or friend. to dismiss from one's employ:

verb (used with object)

1. (at British universities) to punish by confining to the college grounds.
2. Electronics. to control the operation of (an electronic device) by means of a gate. to select the parts of (a wave signal) that are within a certain range of amplitude or within certain time intervals.

verb (used without object)

1. Metallurgy. to make or use a gate.

Origin of Gates

before 900; Middle English gat, gate, Old English geat (plural gatu); cognate with Low German, Dutch gat hole, breach; cf. gate²

Examples for Gates

Even Defense Secretary Gates, at least for a time, was open to the notion.

But when a financial model depends on millions of users, and mere algorithms patrolling the Gates, lapses are inevitable.

And while he slept the Gates were closing and barring the way.

Ask the poor fisherman at the Gates, who has been to him as a brother; and he will answer 'Anaxagoras.'

Eleven years earlier, Gates had set the record for biggest gift of all time by pledging $11 billion to the foundation.

The Gates were closed, and not a man was to be seen on the battlements.

The Gates stand open, and there are three thousand of them within the walls.

KSM enters the complex through a “Sally Port,” a series of Gates designed to allow just one vehicle in at a time.

The lower classes of tradesmen were generally placed near the Gates.

By the time I travelled to Lebanon in late July to visit my parents, ISIS was at the Gates, not of our town but of the country.