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Vates vs Nates - What's the difference?

vates | nates |

As nouns the difference between vates and nates

is that vates is a poet or bard who is divinely inspired while nates is the two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.

vates

English

Noun

  • A poet or bard who is divinely inspired.
  • * 1999 , Dennis Richard Danielson, The Cambridge Companion to Milton , Cambridge University Press, page 57 [http://books.google.com/books?id=BaiZA_c8SNEC&pg=PA57&dq=vates+poet&lr=lang_en&as_brr=3&as_pt=ALLTYPES]:
  • The volume is haunted by the death of the vates (poet-prophet) Orpheus, who failed to revive Eurydice from death and was then torn apart by maenads.

    Derived terms

    * sacer vates

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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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