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Definition of Gates

1. Noun. United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955).

Definition of Gates

1. Proper noun. (surname) ¹

2. Noun. (plural of gate) ¹

3. Verb. (third-person singular of gate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gates

1. gate [v] - See also: gate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gates

Literary usage of Gates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"In 1737 (10 March) Mrs. Gutes died, and in 1758 gates moved to North Aston, Oxfordshire. ... He also says that gates introduced into the chapel the system, ..."

2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1909)
"gates, WS Effective physical machine of the musician. Musician. 14: 547. D. '09. ... gates for grade crossings. See Grade crossings. gates of fulfilment. ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1880)
"The name of Caspian or Albanian gates is properly applied to ... The Iberian gates'"a are formed by a narrow passage of six miles in Mount Caucasus, ..."

4. The Improvement of Rivers: A Treatise on the Methods Employed for Improving by Benjamin Franklin Thomas, David Alexander Watt (1913)
"This method is used on the Welland Canal in Canada, where the gates close a ... METAL gates * General.—In the last few years gates of metal have been coming ..."

5. The American Revolution by George Otto Trevelyan (1907)
"An apt weapon for their purpose lay within easy reach; for General gates now ... He fetched and carried for gates while that general's fortunes were in the ..."

6. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1889)
"It had somtimes two round towers on each side (though now lessened) to defend it, as also a paire of gates thwarted with a ..."

7. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"On September 28 and the two following days gates was examined at the Council Board. The King caught him lying, but the extent and gravity of his charges ..."

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