Cow vs Mat - What's the difference?
cow | mat |
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 ?
A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.
A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.
(athletics) A floor pad to protect athletes.
A thickly tangled mess.
A thick paper or paperboard border used to inset and center the contents of a frame.
A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
(gaming) A material or component needed for a crafting recipe
To cover, protect or decorate with mats.
To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
* Dryden
(coppersmithing) An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal.
In transitive terms the difference between cow and mat
is that cow is to intimidate; to daunt the spirits or courage of. Found primarily in the passive voice.mat is to cover, protect or decorate with mats.As an acronym COW
is acronym of w:Copy-on-write|copy-on-write|lang=en.As a proper noun Mat is
a diminutive of the male given name Matthew.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 pluralsmat
English
(wikipedia mat)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from ).Noun
(en noun)- Wipe your feet on the mat before coming in.
- They put mats on the table during mealtimes.
- The high jumper cleared the bar and landed safely on the mat .
- a mat''' of hair; a '''mat of weeds
- the mat of a daguerreotype
- To make a luck potion, you need several rare herbs as mats .
Derived terms
* crash mat * doormat * mat slab * place mat * welcome matVerb
(matt)- (Evelyn)
- And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair.