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Mates vs Nates - What's the difference?

mates | nates |

As a verb mates

is .

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.

mates

English

Noun

(head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Friendly; having a friendship (with).
    • He is mates with my brother.

    Usage notes

    * Only used as a predicate.

    Synonyms

    * chummy (British''), chums (''British''), friendly, friends, pally (''British''), pals (''British )

    Anagrams

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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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