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Meanings of cog in English
A wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other.
Synonyms
Examples for "gear"
Examples for "gear"
1
Sompert Gereva said the government is looking at buying more fishing gear.
2
He called it 'gear' and referred to the hypodermic as a 'spike'.
3
Next year, South Africa will gear up for the Elections 2019 campaign.
4
Of course, anyone with a cellphone these days has gear this complicated.
5
State media has shown workers in protective gear disinfecting trains and trucks.
1
Both patients developed increased tone and cogwheel rigidity, but neither developed choreoathetosis.
2
Guess the Miller of the Dee dropped a cogwheel into his wheat.
3
On detailed examination, the patient was observed to have symmetrical bradykinesia and cogwheel rigidity of limbs.
4
Ianto turned and headed for the cogwheel door, Jack following as he talked to the girl.
5
They have very powerful engines and a cogwheel arrangement, the line making a zigzag up the mountain-side.
1
First take the case of a small gearwheel, say 1 in.
2
The gearwheel is centermost, supported on an adjustable cradle like a miniature music stand.
3
There are duplicates of the gearwheel and its brethren, etched in brass for testing purposes.
4
That's when Rana pays proper attention to the gearwheel, the one she has been working on.
5
The same person who had thrown a handful of marbles against the gearwheel in the watermill.
1
The driving gear too, with the exception of one cog wheel, was in workable order.
2
Now I'll put a plug in there, and the cog wheel won't come loose again.
3
If these are all right, you will find that either a pulley or a little cog wheel is loose.
4
The internal fittings and cog wheels were also wood.
5
They were literally covered with cog wheels, levers, handles, springs, pieces of machinery, patterns, models, and strange devices.
1
The display shows the toolbar, with the time frozen, and a perpetual spinning gear wheel.
2
There was a little clicking sound, as the youth moved some gear wheel on his gun.
3
He did not need the knife-orany tools, for that matter-toremove the small lock from the central gear wheel.
4
A is a collar which encircles the spindle, and has formed on its outer face a bevel gear wheel, B.
5
The tooth of a gear wheel is a cast iron spring, and if only treated as would be a spring, many less would be broken.
Catalan
dent Spanish
rueda dentada Usage of cog in English
1
A good footballer and a very important cog in the '95 wheel.
2
She had been merely a cog in the machinery of the plot.
3
The machine won't work without the smallest cog turning over as well.
4
He appeared for US youth teams but was hardly a central cog.
5
Lisha took it in her hand and pushed a cog round carefully.
6
The beset leaders strained the machine's every cog to meet the emergency.
7
Just a minor cog in the great machinery of a big corporation.
8
They learned the magic of the cog, and of steam and coal.
9
He was a small cog in some kind of a big operation.
10
When one cog in the the Mill stops, another starts to whirr.
11
The useless cog to drop away when you get tired of him!
12
Banks have long served as a vital cog in keeping Lebanon's economy moving.
13
But at this crisis the machinery of dissimulation slipped a cog.
14
He was a cog in the greatest machine the world has ever seen.
15
I dip the clutch, flick the right hand paddle and engage a cog.
16
Foote is a key cog in the Cardinals effort to stop the run.
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Translations for cog
Portuguese
Cog through the time
Cog across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common