Yates

//jeɪts// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of yate form-of, plural
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in McLean County, Illinois.
  3. 3
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Lake County, Michigan.
  4. 4
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Shelby Charter Township, Macomb County, Michigan.
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Missouri.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Wibaux County, Montana.
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Orleans County, New York.
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; A former community in Taylor County, West Virginia, now under water.

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"Michael Yates remembers recently seeing footage of a South Asian woman who woke up in the middle of the night surrounded by water. She grabbed her children and fled to higher ground, but left everything behind in the flooding, as he recalls. Yates, the director for the U.S. Agency for International Development’s mission in Asia, said that inexpensive tools like early warning systems might have helped this woman minimize her losses."

Etymology

From the Old English surname, from yate, obsolete form of gate.

Related phrases

Baeza-Yates-Gonnet algorithmBurnt YatesFort YatesYates CenterYates County

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