Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To load or manipulate (dice) fraudulently.
- intransitive verb To cheat, especially at dice.
- noun An instance of cheating; a swindle.
- noun A tenon projecting from a wooden beam designed to fit into an opening in another beam to form a joint.
- transitive verb To join with tenons.
- noun One of a series of teeth, as on the rim of a wheel or gear, whose engagement transmits successive motive force to a corresponding wheel or gear.
- noun A cogwheel.
- noun A subordinate member of an organization who performs necessary but usually minor or routine functions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small boat; a cockboat; a cock.
- noun A trading-vessel; a galley; a ship in general.
- To furnish with cogs.
- To wedge up so as to render steady or prevent motion: as, to
cog the leg of a table which stands unevenly; to cog a wheel of a carriage with a stone or a piece of wood. - To harrow.
- To empty into a wooden vessel.
- noun A tooth, catch, or projection, usually one of a continuous series of such projections, on the periphery or the side of a wheel, or on any part of a machine, which, on receiving motion, engages with a corresponding tooth or projection on another wheel or other part of the machine, and imparts motion to it. See cut under
cog-wheel . - noun A mill-wheel; a cog-wheel.
- noun In mining, same as
chock , 4. - noun The short handle of a scythe.
- noun A kind of notch used in tailing joists or wall-plates.
- noun A circular wooden vessel used for holding milk, broth, etc.
- noun A measure used at some mills, containing the fourth part of a peck.
- noun Intoxicating liquor.
- To flatter; wheedle; seduce or win by adulation or artifice.
- To obtrude or thrust by falsehood or deception; foist; palm: usually with in or on.
- To adapt (a die) for cheating, by loading it, so as to direct its fall: as, to play with cogged dice.
- To wheedle; flatter; dissimulate.
- To cheat, especially by means of loaded dice.
- In metallurgy, to roll, especially to roll ingots into blooms.
- An abbreviation of
cognate . - noun A trick or deception.
- noun plural Loaded dice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.
- transitive verb rare To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
- transitive verb rare To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; ; to palm off.
- transitive verb To furnish with a cog or cogs.
- transitive verb (Auscultation) a form of interrupted respiration, in which the interruptions are very even, three or four to each inspiration.
- noun A small fishing boat.
- noun A trick or deception; a falsehood.
- noun (Mech.) A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel.
- noun A kind of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface.
- noun A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak.
- noun (Mining.) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical A
ship ofburden , orwar with around ,bulky hull . - noun A
tooth on agear - noun A
gear ; acogwheel - noun An
unimportant individual in a greater system. - noun carpentry A
projection ortenon at the end of abeam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form ajoint . - noun A small fishing boat
- noun An act of cogging.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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V. ii.235 (440,6) [Since you can cog] To _cog_ signifies _to falsify the dice, _ and _to falsify a narrative, _ or _to lye.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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People with MS use the term "cog fog" to describe the deterioration in cognitive functioning.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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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”.
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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.
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Kidd has been the Nets 'main cog since New Jersey acquired him from Phoenix two years ago.
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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.
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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.
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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.
NFL - National Football League - Buffalo vs. Kansas City 2002
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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.
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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!
The Party's Over: Derailed by the Economy BikeSnobNYC 2008
sionnach commented on the word cog
To COG, to cheat at Dice. To Cog a Die; to conceal or secure a Die; also the Money or whatever the Sweetners drop, to draw in the Bubbles: Also to wheedle.
May 9, 2009