Definition of gates

"gates" in the noun sense

1. gate

a movable barrier in a fence or wall

2. gate, logic gate

a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs

3. gate

total admission receipts at a sports event

4. gate

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

"gates" in the verb sense

1. gate

supply with a gate

"The house was gated"

2. gate

control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate

3. gate

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

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Quotations for gates

Hannibal is at the gates. [ Cicero ]

Slowly, slowly falls night's curtain
Over all the wide-spread land;
And the angels of the twilight
At the gates of heaven stand.
Lo, they come, a band of angels.
Clad in robes of tender gray;
And before their gracious presence,
Fades the sun's last lingering ray. [ C. E, Charles ]

Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell. [ Homer, Pope's Iliad ]

Battering the gates of heaven with storms of prayer. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

City gates stand open to the bad as well as the good. [ Proverb ]

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all. [ Abd-el-Kader ]

When a lackey comes to hell's door, the devils lock the gates. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Morn, waked by the circling hours, with rosy hand unbarred the gates of light. [ Milton ]

Clamorous labor knocked with its hundred hands at the golden gates of the morning. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Soon as man, expert from time, has found the key of life, it opes the gates of death. [ Young ]

In the gates of eternity, the black hand and the white hand hold each other with an equal clasp. [ Mrs. Stowe ]

Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as king's palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees. [ Daniel Webster ]

At the gates of the forest the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

He that would die well must always look for death, every day knocking at the gates of the grave; and then the grave shall never prevail against him to do him mischief. [ Jeremv Taylor ]

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Thou tell'st me there is murder in my eye: 'tis pretty, sure, and very probable that eyes - that are the frailest and softest things, who shut their coward gates on atomies - should be called tyrants, butchers, murderers! [ William Shakespeare ]

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. The more profound the thought, the more burdensome. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

gates in Scrabble®

The word gates is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters gates:

GATES
(24)
STAGE
(24)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word gates

GATES
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In gates

GATES
(24)
STAGE
(24)
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(21)
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gates in Words With Friends™

The word gates is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters gates:

STAGE
(39)
GATES
(39)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word gates

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(28)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In gates

STAGE
(39)
GATES
(39)
STAG
(36)
GATE
(36)
GETS
(36)
GATES
(28)
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(18)
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Word Growth involving gates

Shorter words in gates

at ate gate

Longer words containing gates

abrogates

agates propagates counterpropagates

agates propagates micropropagates

agates propagates repropagates

agates propagates selfpropagates

aggregates coaggregates

aggregates disaggregates

aggregates hyperaggregates

aggregates hypoaggregates

aggregates macroaggregates

aggregates reaggregates

aggregates subaggregates

arrogates

avigates navigates circumnavigates

avigates navigates misnavigates

castigates

congregates

conjugates bioconjugates

conjugates glycoconjugates

corrugates

derogates

dispergates

divulgates

elongates

emulgates

evulgates

expurgates

floodgates

fluxgates

frigates

fumigates refumigates

fumigates suffumigates

fungates

fustigates

gigatesla gigateslas

instigates

interrogates reinterrogates

investigates reinvestigates preinvestigates

irrigates overirrigates

irrigates reirrigates preirrigates

irrigates underirrigates

legates ablegates

legates delegates nondelegates

legates delegates redelegates predelegates

legates delegates superdelegates

legates relegates

liftgates

ligates alligates

ligates obligates reobligates

ligates profligates

litigates

margates

megatesla megateslas

mitigates

negates abnegates

negates renegates

objurgates

ploughgates

polymastigates

prolongates

promulgates

prorogates

qugates

remigates

segregates desegregates

segregates resegregates

sluicegates

subjugates

subrogates

surrogates surrogateship surrogateships

tailgates

tollgates

variegates