Bull vs. Steer — What's the Difference?

A bull is an intact (i.e., not castrated) adult male of the species Bos taurus. More muscular and aggressive than the females of the same species, the cows, bulls have long been an important symbol in many cultures, and play a significant role in beef ranching, dairy farming, and a variety of other cultural activities, including bullfighting and bull riding.

Guide or control the movement of (a vehicle, vessel, or aircraft), for example by turning a wheel or operating a rudder

An uncastrated male bovine animal

The type of steering of a vehicle

A bullseye

A piece of advice or information concerning the development of a situation

A person who buys shares hoping to sell them at a higher price later.

Another term for bullock

A papal edict

To guide (a vessel or vehicle), especially by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or wheel

Stupid or untrue talk or writing; nonsense

To set and follow (a course)

Push or move powerfully or violently

To direct the course of

(of a cow) behave in a manner characteristic of being on heat.

To advise or direct (a person) toward a place or course of action

An adult male bovine mammal.

To guide a vessel or vehicle.

The uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle.

To follow or move in a set course.

The adult male of certain other large animals, such as alligators, elephants, moose, or whales.

To admit of being steered or guided

An exceptionally large, strong, and aggressive person.

A piece of advice

An optimist, especially regarding business conditions.

A young ox, especially one castrated before sexual maturity and raised for beef.

A person who buys commodities or securities in anticipation of a rise in prices or who tries by speculative purchases to effect such a rise.

(intransitive) To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).

(Slang) A police officer or detective.

(transitive) To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).

Foolish, deceitful, or boastful language.

(intransitive) To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm.

Insolent talk or behavior.

(transitive) To direct a group of animals.

An official document issued by the pope and sealed with a bulla.

(transitive) To maneuver or manipulate a person or group into a place or course of action.

The bulla used to seal such a document.

(transitive) To direct a conversation.

A gross blunder in logical speech or expression.

To conduct oneself; to take or pursue a course of action.

See Taurus.

(transitive) To direct or send an object into a specific place

To push; force.

(transitive) To castrate (a male calf).

To push ahead or through forcefully

(informal) A suggestion about a course of action.

Male.

(obsolete) A helmsman; a pilot.

Large and strong like a bull.

The castrated male of cattle, especially one raised for beef production.

Characterized by rising prices

A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.

An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.

A rudder or helm.

Specifically, one that is uncastrated.

A helmsman; a pilot.

A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.

To castrate; - said of male calves.

Any adult male bovine.

To direct the course of; to guide; to govern; - applied especially to a vessel in the water.

An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.

To direct a vessel in its course; to direct one's course.

A large, strong man.

To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm; as, the boat steers easily.

(finance) An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.

To conduct one's self; to take or pursue a course of action.

(slang) A policeman.

An indication of potential opportunity;

(US) Specifically, a policeman employed in a railroad yard.

Castrated bull

An elderly lesbian.

Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

A crown coin; its value, {{5 shillings.}}

Direct (oneself) somewhere;

(UK) bullseye

Be a guiding force, as with directions or advice;

The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie.

A man or boy (derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of “boy”, which is practically a homophone of “bull”)

Clipping of bullshit

A man who has sex with another man's wife or girlfriend with the consent of both.

(obsolete) A drink made by pouring water into a cask that previously held liquor.

A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.

A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.

A lie.

Nonsense.

(obsolete) A bubble.

Large and strong, like a bull.

(of large mammals) Adult male.

(finance) Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear).

Stupid.

To force oneself (in a particular direction).

To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.

To mate with a cow or heifer.

To endeavour to raise the market price of.

To endeavour to raise prices in.

To publish in a Papal bull

To mock; to cheat.

(intransitive) To lie, to tell untruths.

To polish boots to a high shine.

The male of any species of cattle (Bovidæ); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.

Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.

A ludicrously false statement; nonsense. Also used as an expletive.

A seal. See Bulla.

A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief.

A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility.

Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.

To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.

Uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle

A large and strong and heavyset man;

Obscene words for unacceptable behavior;

A serious and ludicrous blunder;

Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

An investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus

The second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20

The center of a target

A formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)

Mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle

Push or force;

Try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying

Talk through one's hat;

Advance in price;