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Antes vs Nates - What's the difference?

antes | nates |

As a proper noun antes

is a medieval european tribal union who lived north of the lower danube and the black sea (on the territory of modern moldova and ukraine) in the 6th and 7th century ad.

As a noun nates is

(anatomy|medicine) the two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.

antes

English

Verb

(head)
  • (ante)
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    ante

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A price or cost, as in up the ante.
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  • (poker) In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot before dealing the cards.
  • See also

    * penny ante * up the ante

    Verb

  • To pay the ante in poker. Often used ante up .
  • To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances.
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    nates

    English

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • (anatomy, medicine) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
  • The buttocks.
  • * 1963 , (Anthony Burgess), Inside Mr Enderby
  • Enderby watched her warily as she lay prone, having kicked the clothes off the bed, her nates silvered by the Roman moonlight to the likeness of a meringue.
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 3:
  • *:He sat cross-legged on a damask pillow and scrutinized the pale puckered nates with the air of an epicure examining a fly in his vichyssoise.
  • (zoology) The umbones of a bivalve shell.
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