Cow most commonly refers to adult female cattle, and colloquially used to refer to cattle in general.

Cow, cows or COW may also refer to:

Science and technology

  • Cow, an adult female of several animals
  • AT2018cow, a large astronomical explosion also known as "The Cow"
  • Distillation cow, a piece of glassware that allows fractions to be collected without breaking vacuum
  • Cell on wheels, a means of providing temporary mobile phone network coverage
  • Copy-on-write, in computing

Literature

  • Al-Baqara, the second and longest sura of the Qur'an, usually translated as "The Cow"
  • Cows, a 1998 novel by Matthew Stokoe
  • Cow, the English translation of Beat Sterchi's novel Blösch
  • "Cows!", a children's story from the Railway Series book Edward the Blue Engine by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry
  • "Cows", a poem from The Wiggles' album Big Red Car

Film and television

  • The Cow (1969 film), an Iranian film
  • The Cow (1989 film), a Soviet animated short
  • Cow (2009 film), a Chinese film
  • Cow (2021 film), a British documentary film
  • Cow (public service announcement), an anti texting while driving public service announcement
  • Cows (TV series), a pilot and cancelled television sitcom produced by Eddie Izzard for Channel 4 in 1997
  • Cow, a character in the animated series Cow and Chicken
  • Computer Originated World, referring to the globe ID the BBC1 TV network used from 1985 to 1991
  • "Cows", an episode from Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom

Music

  • Cows (band), a noise rock band from Minneapolis
  • Cow (demo), a 1987 EP by Inspiral Carpets
  • COW / Chill Out, World!, 2016 album by The Orb

Other uses

  • The Cows (painting), a painting by Vincent van Gogh
  • Cerritos On Wheels, municipal bus service operated by the City of Cerritos, California, United States
  • College of Wooster, liberal arts college in Wooster, Ohio, United States
  • Cow Hell Swamp, Georgia, United States
  • Crude oil washing
  • Cows (ice cream), a Canadian ice cream brand
  • Cowdenbeath railway station, Scotland, National Rail station code
  • Cow, part of a cow–calf railroad locomotive set
  • COWS, a mnemonic for Cold Opposite, Warm Same in the caloric reflex test
  • Cow (Mario), also known as a Moo Moo, a species and playable driver in the Mario Kart series

See also

  • Vacas (English: Cows), a 1991 Spanish film
  • Kráva (English: The Cow), a 1994 Czech film by Karel Kachyňa
  • Sacred cow (disambiguation)
  • Cow Run (disambiguation)
  • Cowes
  • Kow (disambiguation)