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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Examples of "cog" in Sentences
- He is a cog in the machine of imperialism.
- The logo of COG is the Gang gang Cockatoo.
- The cogs transport the wire over the wheels.
- The lower the muscle mass, the closer the CoG is to the abdomen.
- The Cog are a clannish race with moderately primitive technology.
- Carl is an impudent, sex starved cog with multiple personalities.
- The number in the brackets indicates the number of cogs on the freewheel.
- Claw managed to get the cogs in properly and started to screw on the nuts.
- It certainly widened the schism between the Cog and the mainstream churches.
- Kidd has been the Nets 'main cog since New Jersey acquired him from Phoenix two years ago.
- People with MS use the term "cog fog" to describe the deterioration in cognitive functioning.
- V. ii.235 (440,6) [Since you can cog] To _cog_ signifies _to falsify the dice, _ and _to falsify a narrative, _ or _to lye.
- The main cog in Kansas City's rushing machine, Priest Holmes, ran 31 times for 104 yards, giving him 1,012 yards for the season.
- For years he's been the main cog of the White Sox's offense and always has been at the heart of media attention in the clubhouse.
- Barlow was the main cog in the Panthers running game, rushing the ball 21 times while accounting for all but 13 of his team's yards on the ground.
- Hard-throwing righthanded relief prospect Lorenzo Barcelo, who was projected to be a main cog in the Chicago bullpen, battled arm problems and was limited to just 26 innings.
- Advances in cognitive science, as they become more widely known, may start to corrode the cult of the individual by replacing an uncomplicated “I” with a shifting and contingent “we”.
- In the past decade or so there has also been quite a bit of research in cog-sci into the phenomenon of synesthesia – the "blending" of sensation in some people so that they hear colors or see sounds, etc.
- Sure, the $480 cassette is expensive, but I suppose if you're in the later stages of syphilis or something you can rationalize it by telling yourself it's only like $43 a cog, which is about the same price as a stainless steel singlespeed cog by Chris King--plus you get the spacers free!
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