Cow vs Leopard - What's the difference?
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A female domesticated ox or other bovine, especially an adult after she has had a calf.
More generally, any domestic bovine regardless of sex or age.
The meat of such animals as food (more commonly called beef).
The female of larger species of mammal, including bovines, moose, whales, seals, hippos, rhinos, manatees, and elephants.
(derogatory, informal) A woman who is considered despicable in some way, especially one considered to be fat, lazy, ugly, argumentative, mean or spiteful.
(informal) Anything that is annoyingly difficult, awkward or graceless.
(informal) A conniption fit or hissy fit; a state of agitation .
(mining) A wedge or brake to stop a machine or car; a chock.
To intimidate; to daunt the spirits or courage of.
* Shakespeare
(UK, dialect) A chimney cowl.
* 1836 , Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers ?
Panthera pardus , a large wild cat with a spotted coat, indigenous to Africa and Asia.
* 1990 , Dorothy L. Cheney, How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species , 1992,
* 1998 , Oded Borowski, Every Living Thing: Daily Use of Animals in Ancient Israel ,
* 2005 , Richard Ellis, Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine ,
Either of two similar large cats native to Asia, also with spotted coats: Neofelis nebulosa'' (clouded leopard) or ''Uncia uncia (snow leopard).
* 2005 , Eric Dinerstein, Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations ,
Specifically, a male leopard ; in contrast to leopardess .
(heraldiccharge) A lion passant guardant.
As an acronym cow
is (computing).As a noun leopard is
leopard (a large wild cat with a spotted coat, panthera pardus).cow
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia cow) (en-noun) (see usage notes)- That website is a real cow to navigate.
- (Knight)
Usage notes
The plural cows is the normal plural for multiple individuals, while cattle is used in a more collective sense. The umlaut plurals ky, kye and kine are archaic and no longer in common use.Synonyms
* bitch * bastard, bitch, bugger (UK)Antonyms
* (female domesticated ox or other bovine) bullSee also
* (meat) chicken, pig, pork, goat, lamb, muttonDerived terms
(terms derived from "cow") * cowboy * cow catcher, cowcatcher * cow corner * cowgirl * cowherd * cowmilk, cow milk * cowpoke * cowpool * cowpuncher * cowshed * cow shot * cow tipping * cash cow * have a cow * holy cow * sacred cowSee also
* * beef * bovine * bull * calf * cattle * heifer * steer * low * moo * ox * vealEtymology 2
Probably from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Con artists are not cowed by the law.
- To vanquish a people already cowed .
Etymology 3
Noun
(en noun)- Who could live to gaze from day to day on bricks and slates, who had once felt the influence of a scene like this? Who could continue to exist, where there are no cows but the cows on the chimneypots; nothing redolent of Pan but pan-tiles;
Anagrams
* (l) English nouns with irregular pluralsleopard
English
(wikipedia leopard)Alternative forms
* lybard * libbardNoun
(en noun)page 284,
- During all such cases when we were present they responded by giving repeated alarm calls, even when the leopard' was already feeding on a carcass. We wanted to determine whether vervets knew enough about the behavior of '''leopards''' to recognize that, even in the absence of a '''leopard''', a carcass in a tree signaled the same potential danger as did a ' leopard itself.
page 201,
- The leopard (Panthera pardus'' or ''Felis pardus cf tulliana ) is a close relative of the lion, but biblical references mentioning it are very few, suggesting that it was not as common.
page 197,
- Leopard skins have always been desirable commodities because of their spectacular spotted patterns.
page 81,
- There are plenty of beautiful cats among the thirty-nine species in the Felidae family, but the three leopards'—clouded, common, and snow—may be the most visually stunning. Cloaked in the most beautiful fur of any cat, the reclusive clouded ' leopard is the Greta Garbo of the lot; it lives a solitary life in the remote jungles of Asia, from Nepal to Borneo.