cog
IPA: kˈɔg
noun
- A tooth on a gear.
- A gear; a cogwheel.
- An unimportant individual in a greater system.
- (carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
- (mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
- (historical) A clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged mediaeval ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull and a single mast, typically 15 to 25 meters in length.
- (by extension) A small fishing boat.
- A trick or deception; a falsehood.
- Alternative form of cogue (“wooden vessel for milk”) [(chiefly Scotland) A small round wooden vessel for holding milk.]
- Initialism of center of gravity. [(physics) A point, near or within a body, through which its weight can be assumed to act when considering forces on the body and its motion under gravity. This coincides with the center of mass in a uniform gravitational field.]
- (nautical) Abbreviation of course over ground.
- Initialism of Church of God: numerous, mostly unrelated Christian denominations.
verb
- To furnish with a cog or cogs.
- (intransitive) Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.
- To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
- To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
- To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
- To plagiarize.
- To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
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