Horse vs Bird - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between horse and bird

is that horse is to get on horseback while bird is a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling.

As nouns the difference between horse and bird

is that horse is Of, like, or closely associated with the animal Equus ferus caballus.bird is a member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, and laying eggs.

As verbs the difference between horse and bird

is that horse is to frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around". while bird is to observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.

As a proper noun Bird is

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horse

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) horse, hors, from (etyl) . (cognates) Cognate with (etyl) . Related to hurry.

Noun

(en noun)

(lb) Of, like, or closely associated with the animal Equus ferus caballus.

#A hoofed mammal, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

#*:Athelstan Arundel walked homeHe walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses', carriage-'''horses''', and cart-' horses , without taking the least notice of them.

#*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)

, chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.

#(lb) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae , including the zebra or the ass.

# Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).

# The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a man in a suit of armor and often on a horse, hence the nickname.

#(lb) A large person.

#(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.

#A frame with legs, used to support something.

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.

#:(Totten)

(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 ).

Usage notes

* The noun can be used attributively in compounds and phrases to add the sense of large and / or coarse

Synonyms

* (animal) horsie, nag, steed * (gymnastic equipment) pommel horse, vaulting horse * (chesspiece) knight

Hyponyms

* (animal) colt, foal, filly, gelding, palomino, pony, stallion

Derived 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 horse

Verb

(hors)

To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)

* (rfdate) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (script)

"Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt."
But Genghis Khan and Lincoln keep horsing around.

* (rfdate) Ted Lawson, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo :

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.

To provide with a horse.

* Shakespeare

being better horsed , outrode me

(obsolete) To get on horseback.

* 1888 , :

He horsed himself well.

To sit astride of; to bestride.

* 1608 , , II. i. 203:

Stalls, bulks, windows / Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed / With variable complexions, all agreeing / In earnestness to see him.

(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).

To take or carry on the back.

* S. Butler

the keeper, horsing a deer

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

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 * unhorse

Etymology 2

Noun

(-)

(uncountable, slang, dated) Heroin.

Alright, mate, got any horse ?

Synonyms

* (heroin) H, smack

External links

* (wikipedia "horse")

Statistics

Anagrams

* 1000 English basic words

bird

English

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Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) (m), (m), , of uncertain origin and relation.

Noun

(en noun)

A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, and laying eggs.

Ducks and sparrows are birds .

* 2004 , Bruce Whittington, Loucas Raptis, Seasons with Birds , page 50:

The level below this is called the Phylum; birds belong to the Phylum Chordata, which includes all the vertebrate animals (the sub-phylum Vertebrata) and a few odds and ends.

(dated, slang) A man, fellow.

* 1886 , Edmund Routledge, Routledge's every boy's annual

He once took in his own mother, and was robbed by a 'pal,' who thought he was a doctor. Oh, he's a rare bird is 'Gentleman Joe'!

* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 24:

The door opened and a tall hungry-looking bird with a cane and a big nose came in neatly, shut the door behind him against the pressure of the door closer, marched over to the desk and placed a wrapped parcel on the desk.

* 2006 , Jeff Fields, Terry Kay, A cry of angels

"Ah, he's a funny bird ," said Phaedra, throwing a leg over the sill.

(UK, US, slang, used by men) A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.

* Campbell

And by my word! the bonny bird / In danger shall not tarry.

* 2013 , Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems''' (in ''The Guardian , 13 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/sep/13/russell-brand-gq-awards-hugo-boss]

The usual visual grammar was in place – a carpet in the street, people in paddocks awaiting a brush with something glamorous, blokes with earpieces, birds in frocks of colliding colours that if sighted in nature would indicate the presence of poison.

(UK, Ireland, slang) Girlfriend.

Mike went out with his bird last night.

(slang) An airplane.

(obsolete) A chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling.

* Shakespeare

That ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird .

* Tyndale (Matt. viii. 20)

The brydds [birds] of the aier have nestes.

Synonyms

* (man) chap, bloke, guy * (woman) broad, chick, dame, girl, lass * See also * See also

Hyponyms

* See also

Derived terms

* a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush * adult bird * a funny bird * a gay old bird * Alberta's provincial bird * a little bird * a little bird told me * aquatic bird * a queer bird * band birds * beach birds * bird aircraft strike hazard (BASH) * big bird * Big Bird * bird bath * birdbeak dogfish (Deania calcea ) * birdbrain, bird brain * birdbrained, bird-brained * birdbrained person * birdcage * birdcage clock * birdcall, bird-call, bird call * birdcall imitation, bird-call imitation, bird call imitation * birdcall imitator, bird-call imitator, bird call imitator * birdcatcher, bird-catcher, bird catcher * birdcatching, bird-catching, bird catching * bird-catching net * bird dealer, bird-dealer * bird-do * bird dog * bird-dog * bird-dogged * bird-dogging * bird-dogs * birder * bird eye * bird flu * birdfood, bird food * bird-foot * bird-footed dinosaur * bird hatch * bird hatching * bird-hipped * bird-hipped dinosaur * birdhouse, bird-house, bird house * birdie * birdied * birdieing * bird influenza * bird in the hand, bird in hand * birding * birdlet * bird life * birdlike, bird-like * birdlime * birdlimed * birdlimer * birdlimes * birdliming * bird louse * birdlover, bird-lover, bird lover * birdloving, bird-loving, bird loving * birdly * birdman * bird of freedom * bird of ill omen * bird of Jove * bird of Juno * bird of paradise * bird-of-paradise * Bird of Paradise * bird-of-paradise flower * bird of passage * bird of peace * bird of prey * bird pepper * birdseed * birdseller, bird-seller * bird's eye * bird's-eye map * bird's-eye maple, bird's eye maple (Acer saccharum ) * bird's-eye maple wood veneer * bird's-eye primrose * bird's-eye speedwell * bird's-eye view * bird's-foot * bird's-foot trefoil * bird's-foot violet * bird shit * birdshot, bird shot * bird's mouth * bird's-nest orchid * bird's-nest soup, bird's nest soup * birds of a feather, birds of a feather flock together * birdsong * birds of paradise, birds-of-paradise * bird spider * bird's tooth * birdstore, bird store * birdstrike, bird strike * * bird table * birdwatcher, bird-watcher, bird watcher * birdwatching, bird-watching, bird watching * birdwoman * birdy * clever bird * cock bird, cock-bird * dickeybird, dickybird * do bird * early bird * eat like a bird * European bird cherry * fine feathers make fine birds * frigate bird * for the birds * gamebird, game-bird, game bird * gamebird farmer, game-bird farmer * get the bird * give somebody the bird, give someone the bird * hen bird * hummingbird, humming-bird, humming bird * kill two birds with one stone * like a bird * little bird * odd bird * old bird * rare bird * seabird * shorebird, shore bird * strange bird * the bird has flown, the bird is flown * the birds and the bees * the early bird catches the worm * waterbird, water bird

Verb

(en verb)

To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment

To catch or shoot birds.

(figuratively) To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.

(Ben Jonson)

Etymology 2

Originally Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from bird-lime for "time"

Noun

(-)

A prison sentence.

He’s doing bird .

Synonyms

* (prison sentence) porridge, stretch, time

Etymology 3

Dated in the mid?18th Century; derived from the expression “to give the big bird”, as in “to hiss someone like a ”.

Noun

The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.

* 2002 , The Advocate , "Flying fickle finger of faith", page 55.

For whatever reason — and there are so many to chose from — they flipped the bird in the direction of the tinted windows of the Bushmobile.

* 2003 , , The Beach House , Warner Books, page 305,

Then she raised both hands above her shoulders and flipped him the bird with each one.

Derived terms

* flip the bird

Etymology 4

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

(Asian slang) A penis.

Don't Touch My Bird .

References

Anagrams

* 1000 English basic words