gates
gayts
- n United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)
- n a movable barrier in a fence or wall
- n a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
- n total admission receipts at a sports event
- n passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
- v supply with a gate
- v control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
- v restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
- Confident in their expansion beyond the rural south, the Taliban are at the gates of the capital and infiltrating the city at will.