Calf vs. Calves — What's the Difference?

A calf (plural calves) is a young domestic cow or bull. Calves are reared to become adult cattle or are slaughtered for their meat, called veal, and hide.

Calves is a hamlet in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. It is divided between the parishes of Argivai and Beiriz and in the 2001 census it had 138 inhabitants.

A young cow or bull.

Plural of calf1.

One of the young of certain other mammals, such as moose, elephants, or whales.

Plural of calf2.

Calfskin leather.

Plural of calf

A large floating chunk of ice split off from a glacier, iceberg, or floe.

An awkward, callow youth.

The fleshy muscular back part of the human leg between the knee and ankle.

A young cow or bull.

Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.

A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe also used of some other animals.

A chunk of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.

A small island, near a larger island.

A cabless railroad engine.

An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.

(anatomy) The back of the leg below the knee.

The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.

The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale.

Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.

An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.

A small island near a larger; as, the Calf of Man.

A small mass of ice set free from the submerged part of a glacier or berg, and rising to the surface.

The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee.

Young of domestic cattle

The muscular back part of the shank

Fine leather from the skin of a calf

Young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo