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Foal vs Stud - What's the difference?

foal | stud |

As nouns the difference between foal and stud

is that foal is a young (male or female) horse, especially just after birth or less than a year old while stud is a male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.

As verbs the difference between foal and stud

is that foal is to give birth; to bear offspring while stud is to set with studs; to furnish with studs.

foal

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A young (male or female) horse, especially just after birth or less than a year old.

    • Verb

  • (equestrian) To give birth; to bear offspring.
  • * 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 22[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/22]
    • "Well," said John, "I don't believe there is a better pair of horses in the country, and right grieved I am to part with them, but they are not alike; the black one is the most perfect temper I ever knew; I suppose he has never known a hard word or a blow since he was foaled , and all his pleasure seems to be to do what you wish...

    See also

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l), (l)

    stud

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
  • A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
  • A group of such animals.
  • * Macaulay
    • He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories.
  • * Sir W. Temple
    • In the studs of Ireland, where care is taken, we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigour, and size.
  • An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
  • A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
  • (colloquial) A sexually attractive male; also a lover in great demand.
    • Synonyms
    * (sexually attractive male) he-man, hunk * (male animal) sire
    Derived terms
    * studbook * studding * studly * stud puppy

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) studu .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
    • a collar with studs
  • * Marlowe
    • A belt of straw and ivy buds, / With coral clasps and amber studs .
  • * Milton
    • Crystal and myrrhine cups, embossed with gems / And studs of pearl.
  • (jewelry) A small round earring.
    • She's wearing studs in her ears.
  • (construction) A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
  • (obsolete) A stem; a trunk.
  • * Spenser
    • Seest not this same hawthorn stud ?
  • (poker) A type of poker where an individual cannot throw cards away and some of her cards are exposed (also stud poker).
  • (engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
  • (engineering) A stud bolt.
  • An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
    • Derived terms
    * studded

    Verb

    (studd)
  • To set with ; to furnish with studs.
  • To be scattered over the surface of (something) at intervals.
  • * 2012 , Antony Cooke, Dark Nebulae, Dark Lanes, and Dust Belts , page 82:
    • [S]eemingly countless young hot stars stud the entire huge central region[.]
  • To set (something) over a surface at intervals.
  • * 2010 , Rose Levy Beranbaum, Rose's Heavenly Cakes :
    • Stud the cake all over with chocolate chips, pointed ends in.

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