An
ox is an adult male bovine.
Ox or OX may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Music
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, a Canadian alternative country band
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Ox (musician), a Finnish musician
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''Ox'' (album), by American hardcore band Coalesce
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"The Ox" (instrumental), a 1965 rock instrumental by The Who
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Ox-Fanzine
''Ox-Fanzine'' is a monthly punk zine from Solingen, Germany, founded in 1988. It is edited by Joachim Hiller and has had many contributors. Besides its focus on punk subculture, it also covers similar genres, reviews of comics, books and films, ...
'', a German
punk zine
A punk zine (or punkzine) is a zine related to the punk subculture and hardcore punk music genre. Often primitively or casually produced, they feature punk literature, such as social commentary, punk poetry, news, gossip, music reviews and art ...
Other media
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''The Ox'' (film), a 1991 Swedish film
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Doctor Ox
''Doctor Ox'' (french: Le Docteur Ox) is a collection of short stories by Jules Verne, first published in 1874 by Pierre-Jules Hetzel.
It consists of four varied works by Verne:
*" Une fantaisie du Docteur Ox" ("Dr. Ox's Experiment," 1872), il ...
, a fictional doctor and scientist created by Jules Verne in 1872
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Ox (comics)
The Ox is the alias of two characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The original incarnation, Raymond Bloch, is one of the founding members of the Enforcers, a team usually in the employment of crime bosses like t ...
, a villain in the Marvel Comics universe
* , a creature from the eponymous book in the
Of Man and Manta
Of Man and Manta is a trilogy of science fiction novels written by Piers Anthony. It consists of the three books: ''Omnivore'' (1968), ''Orn'' (1970), and ' (1975).
''Omnivore'' has as its frame the investigation of the deaths of eighteen travel ...
trilogy by Piers Anthony
Computing
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Ox programming language
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Open-Xchange
Open-Xchange is a web-based communication, collaboration and office productivity software suite, which enables full integration of email, documents, scheduling and social media.
History
Founded in 2005 by Rafael Laguna and Frank Hoberg, the softw ...
, a "collaboration software" suite and the company that sponsors it
* the oX framework for
OBIX
oBIX (for Open Building Information Exchange) is a standard for RESTful Web Services-based interfaces to building control systems. oBIX is about reading and writing data over a network of devices using XML and URIs, within a framework specific ...
People
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Ox (nickname) As a nickname, Ox or The Ox may refer to:
People nicknamed Ox
* Jacobus Os du Randt (born 1972), South African rugby union player nicknamed his Afrikaans nickname, which means Ox,
* Oscar Ox Eckhardt (1901–1951), American Major League Basebal ...
, a list of people nicknamed "Ox" or "the Ox"
Places
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Ox Mountains
The Ox Mountains or Slieve Gamph () are a mountain range in County Sligo on the west coast of Ireland. They are also known as Saint Patrick's Mountains after the saint who built churches on its slopes and left his name to some of its wells.
Ge ...
, County Sligo, Ireland
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OX postcode area
The OX postcode area, also known as the Oxford postcode area, is a group of 26 postcode districts in south-central England, within 17 post towns. These cover most of Oxfordshire (including Oxford, Banbury, Abingdon, Bicester, Witney, Didcot, C ...
, covering Oxford, UK
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The Oxford Bar
The Oxford Bar is a public house situated on Young Street, in the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. The pub is chiefly notable for having been featured in Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus series of novels. The Oxford Bar, or The Ox, is John Rebus's fa ...
, a pub on Edinburgh's Young Street which features in Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus novels
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Ox (Belfast restaurant)
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Ox is a restaurant in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It has had a Michelin star since 2016.
Head chef of ''Ox'' is Stephen Toman.
Awards
* Michelin star: since 2016
See also
*List of Michelin starred restaurants in Ireland
This is a ...
, a restaurant in Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Ox (Portland restaurant)
Ox is an Argentine steakhouse in Portland, Oregon's Eliot neighborhood, in the United States.
History
Greg and Gabrielle Denton opened Ox in 2012. A "spillover space" called Whey Bar opened later in the year.
In 2015, a ventilation malfunction ...
, a restaurant in Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Transport
* OX, a version of the
Bedford OY
The Bedford OY is an army lorry (truck) built by Bedford for the British Armed Forces and introduced in 1939. It was based on Bedford's O-series commercial vehicles with a modified front end and single rear tyres. It was designed for a 3-ton pay ...
British Army lorry, the latter introduced in 1939
* OX, a prototype vehicle developed by
Global Vehicle Trust
Global Vehicle Trust (GVT) was established to provide simple, affordable, and versatile transport for rural areas in developing countries.
History
Global Vehicle Trust was founded by Sir Torquil Norman as a not-for-profit to develop a prototyp ...
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Orient Thai Airlines
The Orient is a term for the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world. It is the antonym of ''Occident'', the Western World. In English, it is largely a metonym for, and coterminous with, the c ...
(IATA code OX)
Other uses
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Ox (zodiac)
The Ox ( 牛) is the second of the 12-year periodic sequence (cycle) of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar, and also appears in related calendar systems. The Chinese term translated here as '' ox'' is ...
, one of the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac
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Ox (Chinese constellation)
The Ox mansion (牛宿, pinyin: Niú Xiù) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the northern mansions of the Black Tortoise. The primary asterism of this mansion is centered on the tail of the constell ...
, one of the 28 mansions of the Chinese constellations
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Oxalate
Oxalate (IUPAC: ethanedioate) is an anion with the formula C2O42−. This dianion is colorless. It occurs naturally, including in some foods. It forms a variety of salts, for example sodium oxalate (Na2C2O4), and several esters such as dimethyl o ...
, in chemistry sometimes abbreviated as ox when it forms coordination compounds
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Sendai Television
Sendai Television Inc. (株式会社仙台放送, OX) is a TV station affiliated with Fuji News Network (FNN) and Fuji Network System (FNS) serving in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, headquartered in Sendai. It was established on October 1, 1962.
TV ...
, a Japanese commercial broadcaster
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