Associations to the word «Cog»

Wiktionary

COG, noun. (historical) A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull.
COG, noun. A tooth on a gear
COG, noun. A gear; a cogwheel
COG, noun. An unimportant individual in a greater system.
COG, noun. (carpentry) 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.
COG, noun. (mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
COG, verb. To furnish with a cog or cogs.
COG, noun. A trick or deception; a falsehood.
COG, verb. To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat
COG, verb. To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently
COG, verb. To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
COG, verb. To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
COG, noun. A small fishing boat
COG, symbol. The ISO 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for the Republic of the Congo.
COG WHEEL, noun. A gear wheel
COG WHEELS, noun. Plural of cog wheel

Dictionary definition

COG, noun. A subordinate who performs an important but routine function; "he was a small cog in a large machine".
COG, noun. Tooth on the rim of gear wheel.
COG, verb. Roll steel ingots.
COG, verb. Join pieces of wood with cogs.

Wise words

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery