Bull vs. Horse — 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.

The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated one-toed hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus.

An uncastrated male bovine animal

A large plant-eating domesticated mammal with solid hoofs and a flowing mane and tail, used for riding, racing, and to carry and pull loads.

A bullseye

A frame or structure on which something is mounted or supported, especially a sawhorse.

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

A unit of horsepower

A papal edict

Heroin.

Stupid or untrue talk or writing; nonsense

An obstruction in a vein.

Push or move powerfully or violently

Provide (a person or vehicle) with a horse or horses

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

A large hoofed mammal (Equus caballus) having a short coat, a long mane, and a long tail, domesticated since ancient times and used for riding and for drawing or carrying loads.

An adult male bovine mammal.

An adult male horse; a stallion.

The uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle.

Any of various equine mammals, such as the wild Asian species Przewalski's horse or certain extinct forms related ancestrally to the modern horse.

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

A frame or device, usually with four legs, used for supporting or holding.

An exceptionally large, strong, and aggressive person.

(Sports) A vaulting horse.

An optimist, especially regarding business conditions.

(Slang) Heroin.

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.

Often horses Horsepower

(Slang) A police officer or detective.

Mounted soldiers; cavalry

Foolish, deceitful, or boastful language.

A block of rock interrupting a vein and containing no minerals.

Insolent talk or behavior.

A large block of displaced rock that is caught along a fault.

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

To provide with a horse.

The bulla used to seal such a document.

To haul or hoist energetically

A gross blunder in logical speech or expression.

To be in heat. Used of a mare.

See Taurus.

Of or relating to a horse

To push; force.

Mounted on horses

To push ahead or through forcefully

Drawn or operated by a horse.

Male.

Larger or cruder than others in the same category

Large and strong like a bull.

A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

Characterized by rising prices

Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.

An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.

(zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.

Specifically, one that is uncastrated.

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

A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.

A component of certain games.

Any adult male bovine.

(slang) A large and sturdy person.

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

(historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

A large, strong man.

Equipment with legs.

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

In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.

(slang) A policeman.

A frame with legs, used to support something.

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

(nautical) Type of equipment.

An elderly lesbian.

A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.

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

A breastband for a leadsman.

(UK) bullseye

An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.

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

A jackstay.

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

(mining) 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.

Clipping of bullshit

(US) 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 H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E).

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

(uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.

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

(prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.

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

A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.

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

Horseplay; tomfoolery.

A lie.

(slang) Heroin drug.

Nonsense.

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

(obsolete) A bubble.

(transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.

Large and strong, like a bull.

(transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.

(of large mammals) Adult male.

(obsolete) To get on horseback.

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

To sit astride of; to bestride.

Stupid.

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

To force oneself (in a particular direction).

To take or carry on the back.

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

To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.

To mate with a cow or heifer.

(by extension) To flog.

To endeavour to raise the market price of.

(transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.

To endeavour to raise prices in.

(informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.

To publish in a Papal bull

To urge at work tyrannically.

To mock; to cheat.

To charge for work before it is finished.

(intransitive) To lie, to tell untruths.

A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (Equus caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes.

To polish boots to a high shine.

The male of the genus Equus, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.

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

Mounted soldiery; cavalry; - used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; - distinguished from foot.

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

A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.

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

A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

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

Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.

A seal. See Bulla.

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.

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.

A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination; - called also trot, pony, Dobbin.

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.

Heroin.

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

Horsepower.

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

To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse.

Uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle

To sit astride of; to bestride.

A large and strong and heavyset man;

To mate with (a mare); - said of the male.

Obscene words for unacceptable behavior;

To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer.

A serious and ludicrous blunder;

To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

To get on horseback.

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

Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

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

A padded gymnastic apparatus on legs

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

Troops trained to fight on horseback;

The center of a target

A framework for holding wood that is being sawed

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

A chessman in the shape of a horse's head; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

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

Provide with a horse or horses

Push or force;

Try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying

Talk through one's hat;

Advance in price;