ALL meanings of gates
Gates
G g - abbreviation Technical meaning of GATES Bill Gates 3
- noun gates Plural form of gate. 1
- noun Technical meaning of gates (person) William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. He was a computer nerd who dropped out of Harvard and one of the first programmers to oppose software piracy ("Open Letter to Hobbyists," Computer Notes, February 3, 1976). 1
- noun gates Archaic. a path; way. 1
- noun gates North England and Scot.. habitual manner or way of acting. 1
- verb with object gates (at British universities) to punish by confining to the college grounds. 1
- verb with object gates 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. 1
- verb without object gates Metallurgy. to make or use a gate. 1
- idioms gates get the gate, Slang. to be dismissed, sent away, or rejected. 1
- idioms gates give (someone) the gate, Slang. to reject (a person), as one's fiancé, lover, or friend. to dismiss from one's employ: They gave him the gate because he was caught stealing. 1
- noun gates plural of gate. 0
- verb gates third-person singular simple present indicative form of gate. 0
- noun gates Bill, full name William Henry Gates. born 1955, US computer-software executive and philanthropist; founder (1976) of Microsoft Corporation 0
- noun gates Henry Louis. born 1950, US scholar and critic, who pioneered African-American studies in such works as Figures in Black (1987) 0
- noun gates Horatio. ?1728–1806, American Revolutionary general: defeated the British at Saratoga (1777) 0
- noun gates Horatio1728?-1806; Am. general in the Revolutionary War 0