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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)
Synonyms:
Bill Gates; Gates; William Henry Gates
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
computer scientist (a scientist who specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computers)
enterpriser; entrepreneur (someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb gate
Context examples:
“Now,”—said Emma, when they were fairly beyond the sweep gates,—“now Mr. Weston, do let me know what has happened.”
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The gates were open, and I hastened to my father’s house.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Trees, gates, cottages went dancing by.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The March of Dimes helped pay for the study along with the National Institutes of Health, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other medical research institutes.
(New Genetic Discovery May Eventually End Premature Birth, VOA)
Fewer than two hundred showed up at the gates of the base, but no one tried to storm the military base.
(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)
It ended at the paving of asphalt which led up to the gates of the Mapleton stables.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
EXAMPLE(S): Funding from pharmaceutical, device or biotechnology companies, the US NIH or the Gates Foundation.
(Funding, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
The researchers laid metallic gates over a semiconductor and applied a voltage, which generated a complex electric field.
(Quantum state of single electrons controlled by ‘surfing’ on sound waves, University of Cambridge)
The next morning at sun-rise we continued our march, and arrived within two hundred yards of the city gates about noon.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Heinel found himself at the gates in a moment; but the guards would not let him go in, because he was so strangely clad.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
