Bag vs Horse - What's the difference?
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A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
(label) A handbag
A suitcase.
A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
One’s preference.
(label) An ugly woman.
(label) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
(label) First, second, or third base.
(label) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
(label) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
A scrotum.
(label) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
To put into a bag.
To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
(label) To furnish or load with a bag.
* Dryden
To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
To laugh uncontrollably.
To criticise sarcastically.
(label) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
To swell or hang down like a full bag.
To swell with arrogance.
To become pregnant.
(lb) Of, like, or closely associated with the animal Equus ferus caballus.
#A hoofed mammal, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
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# Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
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# The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a man in a suit of armor and often on a horse, hence the nickname.
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#(lb) A large person.
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#(lb) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
(lb) Equipment with legs.
#In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high with two handles on top.
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#A frame with legs, used to support something.
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Equipment.
#A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
#A breastband for a leadsman.
#An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
#A jackstay.
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(lb) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
(lb) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
*1962 , , 00:15:20
*:Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar
(lb) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or (see ).
To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)
* (rfdate) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (script)
* (rfdate) Ted Lawson, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo :
To provide with a horse.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To get on horseback.
* 1888 , :
To sit astride of; to bestride.
* 1608 , , II. i. 203:
(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
To take or carry on the back.
* S. Butler
To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.
* 1963 , Charles Harold Nichols, Many Thousand Gone
(uncountable, slang, dated) Heroin.
As nouns the difference between bag and horse
is that bag is a flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc while horse is a poker variant consisting of five different poker variants, with the rules changing from one variant to the next after every hand or horse can be (variant of basketball).As a verb bag
is to put into a bag.bag
English
(wikipedia bag)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (flexible container) poke (obsolete), sack, tote * (handbag) handbag, purse (US) * (preference) cup of tea, thing * (ugly woman) dog, hag * (in mathematics) multisetHyponyms
* (flexible container) bindleVerb
(bagg)- (Chaucer)
Derived terms
{{der3, airbag, air bag , bagboy , baggage , bagger , baggy , bag lady , bag lunch , bag of bones , bag of tricks , bag snatcher , beanbag , binbag , carrier bag , clutch bag , dilly bag , dime bag , doggy bag , double bagger , douche bag , dumb as a bag of hammers , face like a bag of spanners , handbag , gladstone bag , goody bag, goodie bag , grab bag , holdall, carryall, tote, tote bag , in the bag , kitbag , let the cat out of the bag , mixed bag , moneybag , overnight bag , paper bag , plastic bag , schoolbag , shopping bag , shoulder bag , sickbag , sleeping bag , teabag , toolbag , windbag}}Descendants
* Korean:Anagrams
* * * * 1000 English basic words ----horse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) horse, hors, from (etyl) . (cognates) Cognate with (etyl) . Related to hurry.Noun
(en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
Usage notes
* The noun can be used attributively in compounds and phrases to add the sense of large and / or coarseSynonyms
* (animal) horsie, nag, steed * (gymnastic equipment) pommel horse, vaulting horse * (chesspiece) knightHyponyms
* (animal) colt, foal, filly, gelding, palomino, pony, stallionDerived terms
* change horses in midstream * cutting horse * dark horse * don't look a gift horse in the mouth * * flog a dead horse / beat a dead horse * from the horse's mouth * get off one's high horse * hold one's horses * horse and carriage * horseback * horse-breaker * horse-chestnut * horse-drawn * horse face * horsefeathers * horseflesh * horsefly * horsely * horse latitudes * horselaugh * horseman * horsemanship * horse of a different color * horse opera * horse pill * horseplay * horsepower * horse race * horse racing * horseradish * horse sense * horses for courses * horseshit * horseshoe * horse-stinger * horse trading * horsewhip * horsey, horsy, horsie * hung like a horse * I could eat a horse * one-horse race * one-horse town * pack horse, packhorse * plowhorse, ploughhorse * pommel horse * rocking horse * saddle horse * sawhorse * sea horse, seahorse * straight from the horse's mouth * sumpter horse * swap horses in midstream * vaulting horse * warhorse * willing horse * workhorse * work like a horseSee also
(kinds of horse by physical attributes) * stallion, sire, ridgeling, gelding * mare, dame * colt, yearling * filly, foal * pony (kinds of horse by employment) * sumpter, rowney * palfrey * charger, destrier * brumby, mustang (related terms) * knight, cavalier, cavalry, chivalry * equid, equine * gee, haw, giddy-up, whoa * hoof, mane, tail, withers * gallop, canter, walk, trot * neigh, whinny * tandem, team, chariot, cart, wagon * ungulate * *Verb
(hors)- "Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt."
But Genghis Khan and Lincoln keep horsing around.
- I told him that if I passed out before we got to a hospital I wanted him to see to it that no quack horsed around with my leg.
- being better horsed , outrode me
- He horsed himself well.
- Stalls, bulks, windows / Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed / With variable complexions, all agreeing / In earnestness to see him.
- the keeper, horsing a deer
- So they brought him out and horsed him upon the back of Planter George, and whipped him until he fell quivering in the dust.
Derived terms
* horse around * unhorseEtymology 2
Noun
(-)- Alright, mate, got any horse ?