Horse vs. Sheep — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Horse and Sheep
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Horse
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.
Sheep
Sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Like all ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates.
Horse
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.
Sheep
A domesticated ruminant mammal (Ovis aries) having a thick coat, raised in many breeds for its wool, edible flesh, or hide.
Horse
A frame or structure on which something is mounted or supported, especially a sawhorse.
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Sheep
Any of various wild ruminant mammals related to and resembling the domestic sheep, such as the aoudad, bighorn sheep, and mouflon.
Horse
A unit of horsepower
A 63-horse engine
Sheep
Leather made from the skin of one of these animals.
Horse
Heroin.
Sheep
A person regarded as timid, weak, or submissive.
Horse
An obstruction in a vein.
Sheep
One who is easily swayed or led.
Horse
Provide (a person or vehicle) with a horse or horses
Six men, horsed, masked, and armed
Sheep
(countable) A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.
Horse
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.
Sheep
The domestic Ovies aries, the most well known species of Ovis.
Horse
An adult male horse; a stallion.
Sheep
(countable) A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.
Horse
Any of various equine mammals, such as the wild Asian species Przewalski's horse or certain extinct forms related ancestrally to the modern horse.
Sheep
A religious adherent, a member of a congregation or religious community (compare flock).
Horse
A frame or device, usually with four legs, used for supporting or holding.
Sheep
(uncountable) Sheepskin leather.
Horse
(Sports) A vaulting horse.
Sheep
A person who is easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with goat.
Horse
(Slang) Heroin.
Sheep
Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.
Horse
Often horses Horsepower
A muscle car with 400 horses under the hood.
Sheep
A weak, bashful, silly fellow.
Horse
Mounted soldiers; cavalry
A squadron of horse.
Sheep
Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd.
Horse
A block of rock interrupting a vein and containing no minerals.
Sheep
Woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat
Horse
A large block of displaced rock that is caught along a fault.
Sheep
A timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon
Horse
To provide with a horse.
Sheep
A docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision;
His students followed him like sheep
Horse
To haul or hoist energetically
"Things had changed little since the days of the pyramids, with building materials being horsed into place by muscle power" (Henry Allen).
Horse
To be in heat. Used of a mare.
Horse
Of or relating to a horse
A horse blanket.
Horse
Mounted on horses
Horse guards.
Horse
Drawn or operated by a horse.
Horse
Larger or cruder than others in the same category
Horse pills.
Horse
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.
Horse
Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
Horse
(zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.
Horse
Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field.
All the King's horses and all the King's men, couldn't put Humpty together again.
Horse
A component of certain games.
Horse
(slang) A large and sturdy person.
Every linebacker they have is a real horse.
Horse
(historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
Horse
Equipment with legs.
Horse
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.
She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse.
Horse
A frame with legs, used to support something.
A clothes horse; a sawhorse
Horse
(nautical) Type of equipment.
Horse
A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
Horse
A breastband for a leadsman.
Horse
An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
Horse
A jackstay.
Horse
(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.
Horse
(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).
Horse
(uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
Horse
(prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
Horse
A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
Horse
Horseplay; tomfoolery.
Horse
(slang) Heroin drug.
Horse
(intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)
Horse
(transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.
Horse
(transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
Horse
(obsolete) To get on horseback.
Horse
To sit astride of; to bestride.
Horse
(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
Horse
To take or carry on the back.
Horse
To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
Horse
(by extension) To flog.
Horse
(transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
Horse
(informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
Horse
To urge at work tyrannically.
Horse
To charge for work before it is finished.
Horse
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.
Horse
The male of the genus Equus, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.
Horse
Mounted soldiery; cavalry; - used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; - distinguished from foot.
The armies were appointed, consisting of twenty-five thousand horse and foot.
Horse
A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.
Horse
A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
Horse
Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.
Horse
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.
Horse
A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination; - called also trot, pony, Dobbin.
Horse
Heroin.
Horse
Horsepower.
Horse
To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse.
Horse
To sit astride of; to bestride.
Horse
To mate with (a mare); - said of the male.
Horse
To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer.
Horse
To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.
Horse
To get on horseback.
Horse
Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
Horse
A padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
Horse
Troops trained to fight on horseback;
500 horse led the attack
Horse
A framework for holding wood that is being sawed
Horse
A chessman in the shape of a horse's head; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
Horse
Provide with a horse or horses
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