Dictionary Definition
cog n : tooth on the rim of gear wheel [syn:
sprocket]
Verb
1 roll steel ingots
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology 1
Middle English cogge or kogge (14th century), Old French cogue or coque, Middle Low German kogge, Middle Dutch cogghe, Middle High German kocke, German kock (15th century).Etymology 2
Middle English cogge; confer Swedish kugge and Norwegian kug of same sense. Nonetheless, the exact relation between the English and the Scandinavian words can't be determined. The meaning of "cog" in carpentry derives from association with a tooth on a cogwheel.Noun
- A tooth on a gear
- A gear; a cogwheel
- A unimportant
individual in a greater system.
- 1976, Norman Denny (English translation), Victor Hugo
(original French), Les
Misérables
- ‘There are twenty-five of us, but they don’t reckon I’m worth anything. I’m just a cog in the machine.’
- 1988, David Mamet,
Speed-the-Plow
- Your boss tells you “take initiative,” you best guess right—and you do, then you get no credit. Day-in, ... smiling, smiling, just a cog.
- 1976, Norman Denny (English translation), Victor Hugo
(original French), Les
Misérables
- 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
Translations
a tooth on a gear
- German: Zahn
a gear; a cogwheel
- German: Zahnrad
an unimportant individual
...
carpentry: a projection or tenon
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Uncertain origin. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.Noun
- an act of cogging
Scottish Gaelic
Verb
cog (present participle a' cogadh, simple past chog, past participle air chogadh)Extensive Definition
Cog may refer to:
- A part of a gear system
- Cog (ship), a small sailing vessel
- A tenon that extends all the way through another piece of wood, in joinery
- The evil robots in Toontown Online
- The evil robot drones of the Machine Empire seen in Power Rangers: Zeo
- The humanoid robot at the center of the MIT Cog project
- The Mount Washington Cog Railway
- Cog (television commercial), a Honda television commercial
- Cog (band), an Australian band
- IntelliCog, LLC, A consulting firm founded in 2007.
- Cog (Pinoy rock band), a Filipino rock band
- The programming language used in the Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II and Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith video games
- A human soldier from the video game Gears of War
- Cog, an audio player for Mac OS X
COG is an acronym for:
- Canberra Ornithologists Group
- City of Genoa schools
- CANDU Owner's Group
- Center of gravity
- Central of Georgia Railroad
- Changing of the Guard, also known as Guard Mounting
- Children of God
- Children's Oncology Group
- Chip-on-glass (electronics)
- Church of God
- Clusters of Orthologous Groups of proteins
- Coalition of Ordered Governments (Gears of War)
- Consolidated Operations Group, Inc.
- Coke Oven Gas
- Concours Owners Group, a United States-based motorcycling club for riders of the Kawasaki Concours
- Continuity of government plans
- Cost of goods
- Council of Governments
- Course over Ground
- Covenant of the Goddess
- The Church of Google
- The ISO 3-letter country code of the Republic of the Congo
- Conserved Oligomeric Golgi complex
- Codemasters Online Gaming, the account service for Massively multiplayer online games (MMO) provided by Codemasters
- C0G (C zero G), another name for the NP0 temperature stable capacitor dielectric material
- Creepy old guy (phone texting shorthand)
See also
- COGS (dab)
cog in German: COG
cog in French: COG
cog in Italian: COG
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
comb,
commonality,
commonalty, crag, creature, fang, flunky, follower, harrow, hoi polloi, inferior, jag, junior, lightweight, lower class,
lower orders, masses,
pawn, peak, pecten, projection, rake, ratchet, sawtooth, second fiddle,
secondary, snag, snaggle, spire, sprocket, spur, steeple, subaltern, subordinate, third stringer,
tooth, underling, understrapper,
yes-man