Bull vs. Crown — What's the Difference?

A bull is an intact (i.e., not castrated) adult male of the species Bos taurus. More muscular and aggressive than the females of the same species, the cows, bulls have long been an important symbol in many cultures, and play a significant role in beef ranching, dairy farming, and a variety of other cultural activities, including bullfighting and bull riding.

A circular ornamental headdress worn by a monarch as a symbol of authority, usually made of or decorated with precious metals and jewels.

An uncastrated male bovine animal

The top or highest part of something

A bullseye

The part of a tooth projecting from the gum

A person who buys shares hoping to sell them at a higher price later.

A British coin with a face value of five shillings or 25 pence, now minted only for commemorative purposes.

A papal edict

A paper size, 384 × 504 mm.

Stupid or untrue talk or writing; nonsense

Ceremonially place a crown on the head of (someone) in order to invest them as a monarch

Push or move powerfully or violently

Rest on or form the top of

(of a cow) behave in a manner characteristic of being on heat.

Be the triumphant culmination of (an effort or endeavour, especially a prolonged one)

An adult male bovine mammal.

Fit a crown to (a tooth)

The uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle.

Hit on the head

The adult male of certain other large animals, such as alligators, elephants, moose, or whales.

(of a baby's head during labour) fully appear in the vaginal opening prior to emerging

An exceptionally large, strong, and aggressive person.

An ornamental circlet or head covering, often made of precious metal set with jewels and worn as a symbol of sovereignty.

An optimist, especially regarding business conditions.

The power, position, or empire of a monarch or of a state governed by constitutional monarchy.

A person who buys commodities or securities in anticipation of a rise in prices or who tries by speculative purchases to effect such a rise.

The monarch as head of state.

(Slang) A police officer or detective.

A distinction or reward for achievement, especially a title signifying championship in a sport.

Foolish, deceitful, or boastful language.

Something resembling a diadem in shape.

Insolent talk or behavior.

A coin stamped with a crown or crowned head on one side.

An official document issued by the pope and sealed with a bulla.

Abbr. cr. A silver coin formerly used in Great Britain and worth five shillings.

The bulla used to seal such a document.

Any one of several coins, such as the koruna, the krona, or the krone, having a name that means “crown.”

A gross blunder in logical speech or expression.

The top or highest part of the head.

See Taurus.

The head itself.

To push; force.

The top or upper part of a hat.

To push ahead or through forcefully

The highest point or summit.

Male.

The highest, primary, or most valuable part, attribute, or state

Large and strong like a bull.

The part of a tooth that is covered by enamel and projects beyond the gum line.

Characterized by rising prices

An artificial substitute for the natural crown of a tooth.

An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.

(Nautical) The lowest part of an anchor, where the arms are joined to the shank.

Specifically, one that is uncastrated.

(Architecture) The highest portion of an arch, including the keystone.

A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.

The upper, spreading part of a tree or shrub.

Any adult male bovine.

The part of a plant, usually at ground level, where the stem and roots merge.

An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.

The persistent, mostly underground base of a perennial herb.

A large, strong man.

See corona.

(finance) An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.

The crest of an animal, especially of a bird.

(slang) A policeman.

The portion of a cut gem above the girdle.

(US) Specifically, a policeman employed in a railroad yard.

To put a crown or garland on the head of.

An elderly lesbian.

To invest with regal power; enthrone.

A crown coin; its value, {{5 shillings.}}

To confer honor, dignity, or reward upon.

(UK) bullseye

To surmount or be the highest part of.

The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie.

To form the crown, top, or chief ornament of.

A man or boy (derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of “boy”, which is practically a homophone of “bull”)

To bring to completion or successful conclusion; consummate

Clipping of bullshit

(Dentistry) To put a crown on (a tooth).

A man who has sex with another man's wife or girlfriend with the consent of both.

(Games) To make (a piece in checkers that has reached the last row) into a king by placing another piece upon it.

(obsolete) A drink made by pouring water into a cask that previously held liquor.

(Informal) To hit on the head.

A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.

To reach a stage in labor when a large segment of the fetal scalp is visible at the vaginal orifice. Used of a fetus.

A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.

A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.

A lie.

A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.

Nonsense.

(by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.

(obsolete) A bubble.

Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.

Large and strong, like a bull.

(metonym) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.

(of large mammals) Adult male.

The state, the government (headed by a monarch).

(finance) Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear).

The top part of something:

Stupid.

The topmost part of the head.

To force oneself (in a particular direction).

The highest part of a hill.

To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.

The top section of a hat, above the brim.

To mate with a cow or heifer.

The raised centre of a road.

To endeavour to raise the market price of.

The highest part of an arch.

To endeavour to raise prices in.

The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.

To publish in a Papal bull

The dome of a furnace.

To mock; to cheat.

The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.

(intransitive) To lie, to tell untruths.

(architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.

To polish boots to a high shine.

Splendor; culmination; acme.

The male of any species of cattle (Bovidæ); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna, kruna, krone, korona.

One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.

(historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.

Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.

(botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.

A ludicrously false statement; nonsense. Also used as an expletive.

(forestry) The top of a tree.

A seal. See Bulla.

The part of a tooth above the gums.

A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief.

(dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.

A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility.

(nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling

Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.

(nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet

To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.

(nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.

Uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle

(paper) In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.

A large and strong and heavyset man;

(paper) In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.

Obscene words for unacceptable behavior;

(chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location

A serious and ludicrous blunder;

(medical) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina

Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

(firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening

An investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later

(geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus

(religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.

The second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20

A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.

The center of a target

A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.

A formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)

The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.

Mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle

Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.

Push or force;

Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.

Try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying

To place a crown on the head of.

Talk through one's hat;

To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.

Advance in price;

To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.

To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.

To declare (someone) a winner.

(medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.

(transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.

To hit on the head.

(video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.

(board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.

(firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.

(military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.

(nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.

(slang) being about to take a poop (usually trying to hold it in, derived from obstetric use: metaphor of "giving birth" to solid poo)

(archaic) crow

A wreath or garland, or any ornamental fillet encircling the head, especially as a reward of victory or mark of honorable distinction; hence, anything given on account of, or obtained by, faithful or successful effort; a reward.

A royal headdress or cap of sovereignty, worn by emperors, kings, princes, etc.

The person entitled to wear a regal or imperial crown; the sovereign; - with the definite article.

Imperial or regal power or dominion; sovereignty.

Anything which imparts beauty, splendor, honor, dignity, or finish.

Highest state; acme; consummation; perfection.

The topmost part of anything; the summit.

The topmost part of the head (see Illust. of Bird.); that part of the head from which the hair descends toward the sides and back; also, the head or brain.

The part of a hat above the brim.

The part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the top or grinding surface of a tooth.

The vertex or top of an arch; - applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only.

Same as Corona.

That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank.

The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.

The dome of a furnace.

The area inclosed between two concentric perimeters.

A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.

A size of writing paper. See under Paper.

A coin stamped with the image of a crown; hence,a denomination of money; as, the English crown, a silver coin of the value of five shillings sterling, or a little more than $1.20; the Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents.

An ornaments or decoration representing a crown; as, the paper is stamped with a crown.

To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power.

To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.

To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.

To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.

To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.

The Crown (or the reigning monarch) as the symbol of the power and authority of a monarchy;

The enamel covered part of a tooth above the gum

A wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory

An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty

The part of a hat (the vertex) covering the crown of the head

An English coin worth 5 shillings

The upper branches and leaves of a tree

The top point of a mountain or hill;

The award given to the champion

The top of the head

The center of a cambered road

Invest with regal power; enthrone;

Be the culminating event;

Form the topmost part of;

Put an enamel cover on;