Cog

Quick meaning: Cog is a noun meaning A tooth on a gear.

Meaning

A tooth on a gear.

More Meanings

1. A gear; especially, a cogwheel.
2. An unimportant individual in a greater system.
3. (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.
4. (mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
5. To furnish with a cog or cogs.
6. (intransitive) Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.
7. (historical) A partially 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, in use from ca. 1150 to 1500.

Example Sentences

just a cog in the machine

False suggestions, shamelesse cogs, and impious forgeries.

1726, Jonathan Swift (debated), Molly Mog For guineas in other men's breeches, / Your gamesters will palm and will cog.

1988, David Mamet, Speed-the-Plow Your boss tells you “take initiative,” you best guess right—and you do, then you get no credit. Day-in, … smiling, smiling, just a cog.

Word Forms

• cogs
• cogging
• cogged

Synonyms for cog

Depending on context, synonyms include sprocket.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sprocket, gear, cycle, trap, piece, spiral.

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