Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
GATES
Gates, Bill Gates, William Henry Gates
(noun) United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
gates
plural of gate
Verb
gates
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gate
Anagrams
• Geats, Stage, agest, e-tags, geats, getas, stage
Etymology
A topographic name for someone who lived by the gates of a medieval walled town.
Proper noun
Gates
A surname.
A rural community in British Columbia, Canada.
An unincorporated community in Nebraska.
A town in New York.
An unincorporated community in North Carolina.
A city in Oregon.
A town in Tennessee.
Anagrams
• Geats, Stage, agest, e-tags, geats, getas, stage
Source: Wiktionary
GATE
Gate, n. Etym: [OE. et, , giat, gate, door, AS. geat, gat, gate, door; akin to OS., D., & Icel. gat opening, hole, and perh. to E. gate a way, gait, and get, v. Cf. Gate a way in the wall, 3d Get.]
1. A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.
2. An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit. Knowest thou the way to Dover Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath. Shak. Opening a gate for a long war. Knolles.
3. A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
4. (Script.)
Definition: The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might. The gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Matt. xvi. 18.
5. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
6. (Founding) (a) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate. (b) The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. [Written also geat and git.] Gate chamber, a recess in the side wall of a canal lock, which receives the opened gate.
– Gate channel. See Gate, 5.
– Gate hook, the hook-formed piece of a gate hinge.
– Gate money, entrance money for admission to an inclosure.
– Gate tender, one in charge of a gate, as at a railroad crossing.
– Gate valva, a stop valve for a pipe, having a sliding gate which affords a straight passageway when open.
– Gate vein (Anat.), the portal vein.
– To break gates (Eng. Univ.), to enter a college inclosure after the hour to which a student has been restricted.
– To stand in the gate, or gates, to occupy places or advantage, power, or defense.
Gate, v. t.
1. To supply with a gate.
2. (Eng. Univ.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.
Gate, n. Etym: [Icel. gata; akin to SW. gata street, lane, Dan. gade, Goth. gatwö, G. gasse. Cf. Gate a door, Gait.]
1. A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate). [O. Eng. & Scot.] I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate. Sir W. Scott.
2. Manner; gait. [O. Eng. & Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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