Chicken vs. Horse — What's the Difference?

The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), a subspecies of the red junglefowl, is a type of domesticated fowl, originally from Southeastern Asia. Rooster or cock is a term for an adult male bird, and younger male may be called a cockerel.

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.

A domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one

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 game in which the first person to lose their nerve and withdraw from a dangerous situation is the loser

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

Cowardly

A unit of horsepower

Withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve

Heroin.

A common domesticated fowl (Gallus domesticus) widely raised for meat and eggs and believed to be descended from the jungle fowl G. gallus.

An obstruction in a vein.

Any of various similar or related birds.

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

The flesh of the chicken, used as food.

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.

(Slang) A coward.

An adult male horse; a stallion.

Any of various foolhardy competitions in which the participants persist in a dangerous course of action until one loses nerve and stops.

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

Vulgar Slang A young gay male, especially as sought by an older man.

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

Afraid; cowardly.

(Sports) A vaulting horse.

To act in a cowardly manner; lose one's nerve

(Slang) Heroin.

(countable) A domesticated species of junglefowl (usually, Gallus gallus; sometimes, Gallus gallus domesticus or Gallus domesticus), especially so-called when young.

Often horses Horsepower

(uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.

Mounted soldiers; cavalry

(archaic) The young of any bird; a chick.

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

A coward.

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

A young or inexperienced person.

To provide with a horse.

A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.

To haul or hoist energetically

The game of dare.

To be in heat. Used of a mare.

A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the chicken (that is, the loser).

Of or relating to a horse

A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.

Mounted on horses

 A kilogram of cocaine.

Drawn or operated by a horse.

Plural of chick

Larger or cruder than others in the same category

(informal) Cowardly.

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

(intransitive) To avoid a situation one is afraid of.

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

A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.

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

A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as spring chicken.

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

The flesh of a chicken used for food

A component of certain games.

A domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl

(slang) A large and sturdy person.

A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy

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

A foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops

Equipment with legs.

Easily frightened

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.

A frame with legs, used to support something.

(nautical) Type of 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.

(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.

(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).

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

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

A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.

Horseplay; tomfoolery.

(slang) Heroin drug.

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

(transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.

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

(obsolete) To get on horseback.

To sit astride of; to bestride.

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

To take or carry on the back.

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

(by extension) To flog.

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

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

To urge at work tyrannically.

To charge for work before it is finished.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Heroin.

Horsepower.

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

To sit astride of; to bestride.

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

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

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

To get on horseback.

Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

A padded gymnastic apparatus on legs

Troops trained to fight on horseback;

A framework for holding wood that is being sawed

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

Provide with a horse or horses