Calf vs. Calve — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Calf and Calve
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Definitions
Calf
A calf (plural calves) is a young domestic cow or bull. Calves are reared to become adult cattle or are slaughtered for their meat, called veal, and hide.
Calve
To give birth to a calf.
Calf
A young cow or bull.
Calve
To break at an edge, so that a portion separates. Used of a glacier or iceberg.
Calf
One of the young of certain other mammals, such as moose, elephants, or whales.
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Calve
To give birth to (a calf).
Calf
Calfskin leather.
Calve
To set loose (a mass of ice). Used of a glacier or iceberg.
Calf
A large floating chunk of ice split off from a glacier, iceberg, or floe.
Calve
(intransitive) to give birth to a calf
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Calf
An awkward, callow youth.
Calve
(intransitive) to assist in a cow's giving birth to a calf
Calf
The fleshy muscular back part of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
Calve
(transitive) to give birth to (a calf)
Calf
A young cow or bull.
Calve
To shed a large piece, e.g. an iceberg or a smaller block of ice (coming off an iceberg)
The glacier was starting to calve even as we watched.
Calf
Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
Calve
To break off
The sea was dangerous because of icebergs calving off the nearby glacier.
When an iceberg breaks off from a large ice shelf along an existing fissure, it looks like a large, flat rectangle. Typically, only 10 percent of an iceberg is visible above the water. As it calved, the iceberg may have been smooth and flat underneath, but ocean currents would have quickly changed it.
Calf
A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe also used of some other animals.
Calve
To shed (a large piece, e.g. an iceberg); to set loose (a mass of ice), e.g. a block of ice (coming off an iceberg)
The glacier was starting to calve an iceberg even as we watched.
Calf
A chunk of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
Calve
To bring forth a calf.
Calf
A small island, near a larger island.
The Calf of Man
Calve
To bring forth young; to produce offspring.
Canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
The grassy clods now calved.
Calf
A cabless railroad engine.
Calve
To throw off fragments which become icebergs; - said of a glacier.
Calf
An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
Calve
Release ice;
The icebergs and glaciers calve
Calf
(anatomy) The back of the leg below the knee.
Calve
Birth;
The whales calve at this time of year
Calf
The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.
Calf
The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale.
Calf
Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.
Calf
An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
Some silly, doting, brainless calf.
Calf
A small island near a larger; as, the Calf of Man.
Calf
A small mass of ice set free from the submerged part of a glacier or berg, and rising to the surface.
Calf
The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee.
Calf
Young of domestic cattle
Calf
The muscular back part of the shank
Calf
Fine leather from the skin of a calf
Calf
Young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo
