Meaning

9 senses
  1. A tooth on a gear.

    Zahn

    зубе́цzubéc

    зубе́цьzubécʹ

    tooth on the rim of gear wheel

  2. A gear; especially, a cogwheel.

  3. An unimportant individual in a greater system.

    just a cog in the machine

    1976, Norman Denny (English translation), Victor Hugo (original French), Les Misérables ‘There are twenty-five of us, but they don’t reckon I’m worth anything. I’m just a cog in the machine.’

    Rädchen

    ви́нтикvíntik, ме́лкая со́шкаmélkaja sóška

  4. 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.

    Zapfen

  5. One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.

  6. (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.

  7. (historical)The hypothetical precursor ship type of the above said to be in use during the early Middle Ages, variously alleged to be Frisian or Scandinavian.

    Kogge

    коггkogg

  8. (broadly)A small fishing boat.

  9. A trick or deception; a falsehood.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. The cog-wheels are in gear.

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  2. Motor cogging might burn up the decoder.

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  3. You're just a cog in the machine.

    ruТы лишь винтик в механизме.

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  4. Workers like to feel like they are more than a cog in a machine.

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  5. The cogs are whirring loudly.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
tooth on a gear:
Русский
By meaning 3
tooth on a gear:
unimportant individual:
type of ship:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
tooth on a gear:
unimportant individual:
carpentry: a projection or tenon:
type of ship:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English cogge, from Old Norse *kogge, *koggr (see Old Swedish kogge,

Inherited from Middle English cogge, from Old Norse *kogge, *koggr (see Old Swedish kogge, kogger), from Proto-Germanic *kuggō (“cog, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gugā (“hump, ball”), from *gēw- (“to bend, arch”). Compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”).

From Middle English cogge, from Middle Dutch kogge, cogghe (modern kogge), from Proto-Germanic *kuggō, from Proto-Indo-European *gugā (“hump, ball”) (compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”)), from *gēw- (“to bend, arch”). See etymology 1 above.

Uncertain. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.

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Forms

plural: cogs
Singularcog
Pluralcogs

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

16 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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