cog
To furnish with a cog or cogsTo furnish with a cog or cogs.
» The cog-wheels are in gear.
Tatoeba contributors · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
7 sensesTo furnish with a cog or cogs.
join pieces of wood with 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.
1726, Jonathan Swift (debated), Molly Mog For guineas in other men's breeches, / Your gamesters will palm and will cog.
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.
to cog in a word
October 3, 1718, John Dennis, letter to S. T. , Esq; On the Deceitfulness of Rumour Fustian tragedies […] have […] been cogg'd upon the town for Master-pieces.
Examples
6 sentencesThe cog-wheels are in gear.
Motor cogging might burn up the decoder.
You're just a cog in the machine.
ruТы лишь винтик в механизме. — Wezel · CC BY 2.0 FR
Workers like to feel like they are more than a cog in a machine.
The cogs are whirring loudly.
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”).
Uncertain. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.
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Forms
cogs, cogging, cogged, coggedLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
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