Ox, Oxymoron

Ox is a bull; it is a domestic bovine mammal. In India ox is commonly referred to as bullock. In some parts of India, the colour of ox is usually white. The plural of ox is oxen.Oxen are used in ploughing, transport (bullock-drawn carts).

Cows (females) and bulls (males) are also used for drafted for fields but oxen are trusted for their endurance, and reliability. Oxen are also shoed (ox-shoe) because their hooves are cloven.

Compounds words formed out of ox are oxcart, oxeye, oxbow, oxheart, ox-wagon (bullock cart or wagon), ox-tail (culinary dish for the tail of cattle). Oxen are a motif in Chinese mythology.
Oxymoron is a combination of words that have opposite meaning, words that have different meanings, incongruous words such as cruel kindness, represents two contradictory terms.

Oxymoron means broadly that is something which is made up of a contradictory, and incongruous elements. Oxymoron comes from a Greek word ‘oxymoron’: oxy means sharp, and moron means foolish. If you notice there is a contradiction within the word: something that is sharp and foolish at the same time.

The derivatives of oxymoron are oxymoronic (adjective) and oxymoronically (adverb) and the plural form of is oxymora, or oxymorons. Oxymoron is a figure of speech: a figure of speech that juxtaposes, or places, two contradictory elements next to each other.

Oxymoron is formed by the combination of an adjective and a noun, by the combination of a noun and a verb: cruel kindness, ground pilot, living dead, a just war (theory), act naturally, awfully pretty, black gold (crude oil), blue rose,

black Russian, casual dress, cavalier concern, elected king, open secret, pretty ugly, seriously funny, Hell’s Angels, genuine imitation, larger half, old news, hot chilli, silence whistles, dark light

Inadvertent errors also become oxymorons: ground pilot!