Vates vs Nates - What's the difference?
vates | nates |
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]:
(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
*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.
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
- 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 vatesAnagrams
* * ----nates
English
Noun
(en-plural noun)- 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.