cog
8
5.6
- noun
- /kɔg/
- Specialized
:
diente (de engranaje)
- To understand the machinery, you need to see how every cog plays a role in the overall operation.
Those mechanisms and wheels and cogs, they're bad, you know, tearing up the earth.
- Those mechanisms and wheels and cogs, they're bad, you know, tearing up the earth.
Examples
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And you educate yourself on the nuts, bolts, gears, and cogs of filmmaking.
Blog text (32) -
It's like cog wheels all tied together, working together.
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This whole barrel just sits on these cogs and it's just very easy to turn.
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The best clocks have jewel movements, cogs that fit, that cooperate by design.
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It only works if all the little cogs mesh together.
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Metal clangs, cogs break, springs rip apart, and one by one the knives stop.
Fiction book (1998) -
The broom handle has been jammed between two cogs, stopping them.
Fiction book (1994) -
The engineer explained how each cog in the gear system interlocks to transmit motion effectively.
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The old clock was beautifully designed, with intricate cogs working together to keep precise time.
Compounds
- Specialized
A railway for steep hills where a gear on the train fits into a toothed rail to prevent slipping
How Complex
- Specialized
73
3.9
- UK
12
4.6
- Specialized
180
2.9
- Specialized
8
5.6
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word cog originally named a small 'tooth' on a cogwheel that fits with other teeth to make the wheel move, so a cog is the part of a gear that helps the machine work.