Meaning of Cog | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A partially clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged mediaeval ship of burden or war, with a round, bulky hull and a single mast, typically 15 to 25 meters in length, in use from ca. 1150 to 1500.
   historical
2. A trick or deception; a falsehood.
3. Initialism of center of gravity.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
4. Initialism of Church of God: numerous, mostly unrelated Christian denominations.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
5. A tooth on a gear.
6. A gear; especially, a cogwheel.
7. The hypothetical precursor ship type of the above said to be in use during the early Middle Ages, variously alleged to be Frisian or Scandinavian.
   historical
8. Abbreviation of course over ground.
   abbreviation, alt-of
9. An unimportant individual in a greater system.
10. A small fishing boat.
    broadly
11. 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.
12. One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.

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Examples

“She said: " We're not wasting time. While the cogs of Parliament continue to whir, we will continue to work on the rolling stock and infrastructure strategy, the national transport integrated strategy, and our accessibility roadmap.”

“just a cog in the machine”

“All the old problems, the stale ones, both personal and general, had been solved by one mighty slash. Heaven alone knew as yet what others might arise - and it looked as though there would be plenty of them - but they would be new. I was emerging as my own master, and no longer a cog.”

“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.”

“The name of the ship was Dawn Treader. She was only a little bit of a thing compared with one of our ships, or even with the cogs, dromonds, carracks and galleons which Narnia had owned when Lucy and Edmund had reigned there under Peter as the High King, for nearly all navigation had died out in the reigns of Caspian's ancestors.”

“False suggestions, shamelesse cogs, and impious forgeries.”

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