Horse vs. Nag

Horse vs. Nag — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Horse and Nag

Horsenoun

Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.

Nagnoun

A small horse; a pony.

Horsenoun

A hoofed mammal, of the genus Equus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.

Nagnoun

An old useless horse.

Horsenoun

(zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including the zebra or the ass.

These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.

Nagnoun

A paramour.

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Horsenoun

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.

Nagnoun

Someone or something that nags.

Horsenoun

The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.

Now just remind me how the horse moves again?

Nagnoun

A repeated complaint or reminder.

Horsenoun

(slang) A large person.

Every linebacker they have is a real horse.

Nagnoun

A persistent, bothersome thought or worry

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Horsenoun

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

Nagverb

(ambitransitive) To continuously remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters.

Horsenoun

Equipment with legs.

Nagverb

To bother with persistent thoughts or memories.

The notion that he forgot something nagged him the rest of the day.

Horsenoun

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.

Nagverb

To bother or disturb persistently in any way.

a nagging pain in his left kneea nagging north wind

Horsenoun

A frame with legs, used to support something.

a clothes horse; a sawhorse

Nagnoun

someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault

Horsenoun

(nautical) Type of equipment.

Nagnoun

an old or over-worked horse

Horsenoun

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

Nagverb

bother persistently with trivial complaints;

She nags her husband all day long

Horsenoun

A breastband for a leadsman.

Nagverb

worry persistently;

nagging concerns and doubts

Horsenoun

An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.

Nagverb

remind or urge constantly;

she nagged to take a vacation

Horsenoun

A jackstay.

Horsenoun

(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.

Horsenoun

(slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.

Horsenoun

(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).

Horsenoun

A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.

Horsenoun

horseplay; tomfoolery

Horsenoun

Heroin drug.

Alright, mate, got any horse?

Horseverb

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

Horseverb

(transitive) To provide with a horse.

Horseverb

(obsolete) To get on horseback.

Horseverb

To sit astride of; to bestride.

Horseverb

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

Horseverb

To take or carry on the back.

Horseverb

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

Horsenoun

solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

Horsenoun

a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs

Horsenoun

troops trained to fight on horseback;

500 horse led the attack

Horsenoun

a framework for holding wood that is being sawed

Horsenoun

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

Horseverb

provide with a horse or horses