Overview of noun gates

The noun gates has 1 sense

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

Overview of noun gate

The noun gate has 4 senses

• gate -- (a movable barrier in a fence or wall)


• gate, logic gate -- (a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs)


• gate -- (total admission receipts at a sports event)


• gate -- (passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark)

Overview of verb gate

The verb gate has 3 senses

• gate -- (supply with a gate; "The house was gated")


• gate -- (control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate)


• gate -- (restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment)