Cow (disambiguation)

Cow is a colloquial term for cattle, and the name of female cattle.

Cow, cows or COW may also refer to:

Science and technology

• Cow, an adult female of several animals
• AT2018cow, a large astronomical explosion detected on 16 June 2018, 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
• Cluster of Workstations
• Cold work, in metallurgy
• Copy-on-write, in computing
• Circle of Willis, a connection that supplies blood to the brain

Entertainment

Film and television

• Cow (film), a 2009 Chinese 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
• The Cow (1969 film), an Iranian film
• The Cow (1989 film)
• Vacas (English: Cows), a 1991 Spanish film
• Kráva (English: The Cow), a 1994 Czech film by Karel Kachyňa
• Cow, 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

Music

• Cows (band), noise rock band from Minneapolis

• "Cows", a song by Grandaddy from their 1992 album Prepare to Bawl

• Cowpunk, a music genre

Literature

• Cows, a 1998 novel by Matthew Stokoe
• Cow, the English translation of Beat Sterchi's novel Blösch
• The Cows, a fictional character from the novel Animal Farm
• Cows!, the title of a children's story from the Railway Series book Edward the Blue Engine by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry
• Al-Baqara, the second and longest sura of the Qur'an, usually translated as “The Cow”

Places

• City of Westminster, an Inner London borough
• City of Winnipeg, a city in Manitoba, Canada
• Cowdenbeath railway station, Scotland, by National Rail station code
• College of Wooster, a liberal arts college in Ohio, US

Military

• Coalition of the willing, collective participants in military interventions that fall outside of United Nations peacekeeping operations
• Correlates of War, an academic study
• Cost of war
• Coventry Ordnance Works, a former British gun manufacturer

Other uses

• Can of worms (disambiguation)
• Cerritos On Wheels, municipal bus service operated by the City of Cerritos, California
• Crude oil washing
• Cows (ice cream), a Canadian ice cream brand
• Cow, part of a cow-calf railroad locomotive set
• COWS, a mnemonic for Cold Opposite, Warm Same in the caloric reflex test

See also

• Sacred cow (disambiguation)
• Cow Run (disambiguation)
• Cowes
• Cowes Week
• Kow (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Cow
• All pages with titles containing Cow