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# ox

«ox» in Mova's school dictionary: **a big strong farm animal like a bull, used to pull carts…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (ox, oxen)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An ox is a big strong farm animal like a bull, used to pull carts and ploughs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ox/#m1)

2) «As strong as an ox» means very strong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ox/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: an animal counted, often in old problems with legs, feed or work done. In history: oxen pulled wagons and ploughs before tractors. In science: oxen are cattle; they eat grass and chew the cud. In stories: pioneers crossing the prairie with ox carts; «as strong as an ox».

### examples

- The farmer has 4 oxen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ox/#x1)
- An ox eats 20 pounds of hay a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ox/#x2)
- Two oxen pull the cart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ox/#x3)
- How many legs do 3 oxen have? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ox/#x4)
- An ox is a kind of cattle trained to work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ox/#x5)
- The pioneers' wagon was pulled by an ox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ox/#x6)
- He is as strong as an ox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ox/#x7)
- The ox walked slowly along the furrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ox/#x8)
- So on he went with his ox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ox/#x9)

### note

A thing counted. Hidden number: 4 legs each. Plural is oxen, not oxes. Ploughing is spelled «plowing» in American English. Oxen are usually male cattle trained for work.

### In the corpora

- [When wolves come, musk oxen stand in a ring with the calves in the middle and their horns pointing out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/4/)
- [Musk ox underwool, called qiviut, is warmer than sheep's wool, and people collect it when it falls out in spring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/5/)
- [The old stories are legends: the rat did not really win a race by riding on the ox's back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/382-the-chinese-zodiac-the-twelve-real-animals-behind-the-signs/3/)
- [And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and they two made a covenant.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.568/)
- [If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.651/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ox» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ox/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.