Unless Congress and the White House come together on a bill to fund federal agencies, a large part of the government will be closed on Tuesday, Oct. 1. If a shutdown occurs, Social Security checks, food stamps and unemployment insurance would not be affected. But some vacation plans could be disrupted.
Wintermute may refer to: 1  a program in the game 2064: Read Only Memories that Will make all machines sapient. 2  An artificial intelligence character in the novel Neuromancer. 3  H. Ogden Wintermute, an American writer and historian.  Slim Wintermute (1917â1977), basketball player.
Definition of winter. 1 : the season between autumn and spring comprising in the northern hemisphere usually the months of December, January, and February or as reckoned astronomically extending from the December solstice to the March equinox. 2 : the colder half of the year. 3 : year happened many winters ago.