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Definition: Cog |
CogNoun1. Tooth on the rim of gear wheel. Verb1. Roll steel ingots. 2. Join pieces of wood with cogs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cog" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. Straight timbers set in a large bunch. They should be firmly set and as close together as possible. Sometimes 12 to 20 are set at one location. Under conditions where single straight posts will not suffice to control the top, and yet cribs are not needed, the use of cogs may be advantageous. May also be called a battery. See also:pigsty; cogging b. A crib made of notched timbers built up like a log house. A chock, cob, corncob, or crib. If the timbers are squared instead of notched, the structure is called a nog. It is ordinarily filled with waste, and rocks are put between the timbers. See also:chock c. A rock intrusion d. To consolidate ingots or shape them by hammering or rolling e. An inserted tooth as in a cogwheel. Gears are often improperly referredto as cogwheels. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | COG. The money, or whatsoever the sweeteners drop to draw in a bubble. COG. A tooth. A queer cog; a rotten tooth. How the cull flashes his queer cogs; how the fool shews his rotten teeth. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
COG | English | Coke oven gas | N/A |
COG | French | République du Congo | Geography, Law |
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Synonym: CogSynonym: sprocket (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deception | Cog, cog the dice, load the dice, stack the deck; live by one's wits, play at hide and seek; obtain money under false pretenses; (steal); conjure, juggle, practice chicanery; deacon. |
Flattery | Verb: flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of, pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one;s bent; lick the dust. |
Sharpness | Nib, tooth, tusk; spoke, cog, ratchet. |
Ship | Boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, bateau battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cog |
| English words defined with "cog": Cogging ♦ depersonalisation, depersonalization. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cog": Bucklersbury ♦ DRIBBLE ♦ SAW OPERATOR. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cog": Cogue. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cog" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Scottish (carry on war), Welsh (cook, cuckoo). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Cog (2003) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Cog Road Depot, Manitou. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Summit, cog wheel train, Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway, Colo. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pikes' Peak and Cog Road from Inspiration Point, alt. 7945 feet. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Trade | Guatemala | In November 1997, the COG eliminated the import license requirement for apples. (references) |
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| "Cog" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.43% of the time. "Cog" is used about 56 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.43% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 56 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cog": cog dice ♦ cog railway ♦ cog the dice ♦ Hunting cog ♦ teeth cog. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cog": cog-sure, cog-wheel, cog-wheels. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "cog"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrotë me dhëmbë (gear, gear wheel, sprocket, sprocket wheel, spur wheel), kllapë (clip, cramp, damper, dovetail, mortise, parenthesis, rabbet, scarf, valve), ingranazh (cogwheel, gear, gear wheel, sprocket), hallkë (hanger, link, member, ring, shackle, thole), dhëmbëz (barb, Dent, denticle, dentil, jag, merlon, Nock, notch, notching, pallet, tooth), dhëmb (Dent, Fang, peg, prong, serration, tine, tooth). (various references) | |
Arabic | تحكم في (control), سن العجلة أو الدولاب, شخص ثانوي (stooge). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | странична подпора, малка рибарска лодка (yawl), зъб (knife, notch, prong, tongue, tooth), брънка от общата верига, палец (cam, finger, locking-finger, pawl, pollex, thumb). (various references) | |
Chinese | 嵌齿轮. (various references) | |
Czech | zub kola, palec (big toe, in, inch, thumb), ozub (barb, calk). (various references) | |
Danish | tandhjulsbane (cog way), tandhjul (cogwheel, gear). (various references) | |
Dutch | tandwiel (cogwheel, gear), tandradspoorweg (cog way), tandrad (cogwheel, gear), rondsel (cog wheel, gear, gear pinion, gear wheel, pinion, tooth wheel). (various references) | |
Farsi | حقه بازی (Juggle, Legerdemain, Quackery, Underhand), دنده چرخ , دندانه دارکردن (Indent, Jag, Tooth), دندانه (Dent, Jag, Leaf, Nick, Peg, Tine, Tooth). (various references) | |
Finnish | hammas (tooth). (various references) | |
French | contrôle (command, control, controls), secondaire, rouge, langue, dent. (various references) | |
German | Radzahn. (various references) | |
Greek | οδούσ τροχού, δόντι γραναζιού, δόντι τροχού (sprocket). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שן תותבת (denture), 'ל'ל ש ים (gear, gearwheel). (various references) | |
Hungarian | patkószeg, fogaskerék (cog-wheel, gear, gear wheel, rack wheel), patkósarok, halászbárka (smack), fog (catch, dental, held, hold, oppress, press, sawed, sawn, shall, sprocket, squeeze, take, teeth, to grab, to grab at, to grab for, to hold, to saw, tooth), fakapocs, fahorog, emelő bütyök, csapos fog, beakasztó fog. (various references) | |
Indonesian | roda gigi (gearwheel), gigi (gear, tooth). (various references) | |
Italian | ingranaggio (gear, gearing, mechanism), dentellare (indent, jag, tooth), dente (Fang, peg, prong, sprocket, tooth). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 歯車 (cog-wheel, gear), 歯軌条 (cog rail). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しきじょう (ceremonial hall, cog rail, lust, place of ceremony, sexual passion), はぐるま (cog-wheel, gear). (various references) | |
Manx | jannoo maclioar follit, chionney (clench, erection, fasten, grit, inflate, momentum, oblige, press, pressurize, pump up, put on, screw up, straighten, strain, tauten, tighten). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ogcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | trapacear (bite, cheat, diddle, fool, graft, palm, rip off, rook), roda dentada (cog-wheel, gear, gear-wheel, rackwheel, spur gear), respiga (tenon), persuadir (advise, bring, cajole, coax, convince, counsel, dispose, get around, induce, insinuate, lead, move, persuade, post, seduce, talk into, urge, woo), lisonjear (beslobber, bespatter, blandish, butter, butter up, cajole, coax, flatter, jolly, lackey, lacquey, palaver, soft-soap, wheedle), escarva, engrenar (gear, hinge, interlock, mesh), encaixe (fit, groove, housing, indent, joint, mortice, mortise, notch, rabbet, socket, splice), dente de roda (sprocket), dentar, barco de pesca (boat, fisher, pleasure boat). (various references) | |
Romanian | camã (cam, jaw, lobe, nose, tappet), zimţ (indent, jag, tooth), trişa (cheat, do something crooked, pigeon, rook), dinte (claw, Dent, Fang, jag, prong, spur, tooth, tusk), dinţa (provide with teeth), înşela (abuse, bamboozle, beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, chouse, circumvent, con, cozen, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, disappoint, do, do brown, do something crooked, double cross, dupe, fiddle, frustrate, gag, get round, gull, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, juggle, mock, mystify, nobble, out-jockey, pigeon, queer, ramp, rook, sharp, shuffle, swindle, trick, victimize). (various references) | |
Russian | зубец (barb, claw, fork, indentation, jag, merlon, prong, serration, tine, tooth). (various references) | |
Scottish | cuach (a cup, bowl, curl, dish, quaich). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zubac (fang, jag, spoke, sprocket, tine, tooth). (various references) | |
Spanish | usar diente, diente de rueda, diente de engranaje, diente (prong, tooth). (various references) | |
Swedish | kugge (tooth). (various references) | |
Thai | เ"ือยไม้, เข้าเ"ือยไม้, ซี่ล้อ. (various references) | |
Turkish | tutmak (abide by, add up to, affect, Bate, be, bespeak, bind, book, catch, charter, check, choke, choke back, choke down, choke off, claw hold of, clench, clutch, cohere, come to, confine, constrain, contain, cost, cramp, engage, Favor, favour, figure out at, fish, gather, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, guard, hang onto, hire, hire on, hold, hold back, hold in, hold on, hold on to, hold up, inhibit, intercept, keep, keep back, keep down, keep in, keep to, occupy, play, play on, play upon, possess, redeem, remand, reserve, restrain, retain, save, seize, seize on, stanchion, stick, stick to, stifle, strangle, support, take, take up, tot up, total, uphold, withhold, work out at), kurmak (activate, base, build, build up, conspire, constitute, construct, erect, establish, fix up, float, form, found, frame, ground, install, institute, lay, line up, organize, pitch, plant, promote, put, put together, ruminate, set, set up, start, strike up, time, weave, wind up), hile yapmak (cheat, chicane, clip, finagle, gerrymander, load the dice, manipulate, play a trick, practice a deceit, practise a deceit, renege, rig, rook, sharp, swindle), dişli çark (cogwheel, gearwheel, sprocket wheel), diş (clove, dent-, dental, jag, knurl, notch, odontic, tooth), çark dişi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шахраювати (cheat, cozen, dodge, fake, gyp, humbug, play foul, poach, rogue, sharp), кулак (cam, claw, fist, nieve), обдурювати (befool, bilk, cheat, chouse, cod, counterfeit, deceive, doodle, dupe, flimflam, gull, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, jockey, juggle, prey, put upon, queer, sell short), невеликий рибальський човен, зубець (beak, beard, claw, indentation, merlon, prong, scallop, scollop, serration, serrature, tine, tooth), з'"днувати в гребінь. (various references) | |
Welsh | cogio (bluff, feign, pretend, sham). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | centrum gravitatis. (various references) |
| Dutch | 700-Modern | cam. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cog": cogencies, cogency, cogeneration, cogenerations, cogenerator, cogenerators, cogent, cogently, cogged, cogging, cogitable, cogitate, cogitated, cogitates, cogitating, cogitation, cogitations, cogitative, cogito, cogitos, cognac, cognacs, cognate, cognately, cognates, cognation, cognations, cognise, cognised, cognises, cognising, cognition, cognitional, cognitions, cognitive, cognitively, cognizable, cognizably, cognizance, cognizances, cognizant, cognize, cognized, cognizer, cognizers, cognizes, cognizing, cognomen, cognomens, cognomina, cognominal. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "cog": incog. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cog": ascogonia, ascogonium, cacographical, cacographies, cacography, chalcogen, chalcogenide, chalcogenides, chalcogens, discographer, discographers, discographic, discographical, discographies, discography, electrocorticogram, electrocorticograms, excogitate, excogitated, excogitates, excogitating, excogitation, excogitations, excogitative, glycogen, glycogeneses, glycogenesis, glycogenolyses, glycogenolysis, glycogenolytic, glycogens, incogitant, incognita, incognitas, incognito, incognitos, incognizance, incognizances, incognizant, incogs, lexicographer, lexicographers, lexicographic, lexicographical, lexicographically, lexicographies, lexicography, noncognitive, nonrecognition, nonrecognitions, oncogene. (additional references) | |
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"Cog" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acog, cagg, cahg, Ccagg, cd, ceg, Cega, cegi, cegy, cehg, Cepg, cgn, chog, chogg, Chogm, Cidg, cihg, Cij, cmg, cof, coga, coge, cogg, cogh, cogi, cogn, cogo, cogu, cogy, cohg, coj, comg, congy, coog, cooga, Copgo, cou, cov, cpg, Cpga, crog, croog, cug, Cung, cvo, Cyg, goc, kog, Kogl, kogu, kug, Lcfga, Ocsg, og, scog, sog, vog, zog. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cog" (pronounced kô"g) |
| 2 | -ô" g | dog, log. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-o" | |
-1 letter: go. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-o" | |
+1 letter: clog, cogs. | |
+2 letters: cargo, clogs, cogon, cohog, coign, colog, conga, conge, congo, corgi, cough, gecko, guaco, incog, logic, orgic, yogic. | |
+3 letters: agonic, beclog, cargos, chegoe, chigoe, chough, cloggy, clough, codger, coding, cogent, cogged, cogito, cognac, cogons, cogway, cohogs, coigne, coigns, coking, cologs, colugo, coming, congas, congee, conger, conges, congii, congos, congou, coning, cooing, coping, corgis, coring, cosign, coting, cougar, coughs, coving, cowage, cowing, coxing, coydog, coying, cyborg, garcon, gascon, gaucho, geckos, geodic, glycol, gnomic, gothic, grocer, grouch, guacos, incogs, logics, orgiac, socage, unclog. | |
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