Difference between Beef and Ox

What is the difference between Beef and Ox?

Beef as a noun is the meat from a cow, bull or other bovine. while Ox as a noun is any bovine animal used as a beast of burden or for food, especially an adult castrated male of the domestic species.

Beef

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To complain. To add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The meat from a cow, bull or other bovine. Would be "a side of beef". A chunk, cut or piece not being the whole piece, cf ham. A generic term for a cow or bull. a complaint or disagreement

Ox

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Any bovine animal used as a beast of burden or for food, especially an adult castrated male of the domestic species.

We hope you now know whether to use Beef or Ox in your sentence.

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