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Meaning of cog wheel

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

cog

Pronunciation:/kɒɡ//kɑɡ/

noun

Definitions

  1. A tooth on a gear.

  2. A gear; a cogwheel.

  3. An unimportant individual in a greater system.

  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.

verb

Definitions

  1. To furnish with a cog or cogs.

cog

Pronunciation:/kɒɡ//kɑɡ/

noun

Definitions

  1. A trick or deception; a falsehood.

verb

Definitions

  1. To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.

  2. To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.

  3. To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.

  4. To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.

    Example: to cog in a word