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Irregular inflected forms: cogged , cogging
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tooth on the rim of gear wheel
Synonyms:
cog; sprocket
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cog" is a kind of...):
tooth (something resembling the tooth of an animal)
Holonyms ("cog" is a part of...):
cogwheel; gear; gear wheel; geared wheel (a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion)
Derivation:
cog (join pieces of wood with cogs)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A subordinate who performs an important but routine function
Example:
he was a small cog in a large machine
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cog" is a kind of...):
foot soldier; subordinate; subsidiary; underling (an assistant subject to the authority or control of another)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Join pieces of wood with cogs
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "cog" is one way to...):
join (cause to become joined or linked)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
cog (tooth on the rim of gear wheel)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Roll steel ingots
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "cog" is one way to...):
roll; roll out (flatten or spread with a roller)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples:
There was no human editor at the other end, but a mere cunning arrangement of cogs that changed the manuscript from one envelope to another and stuck on the stamps.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
An archer had brought him a change of clothes from the cog, and he had already, with the elasticity of youth, shaken off the troubles and fatigues of the morning.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Down swooped the great cog into the narrow channel which was the portal to safety.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If they would but lie closer we might find safety, even should the cog founder.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All night it blew in short fitful puffs, heeling the great cog over until the water curled over her lee bulwarks.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The three vessels had been sweeping swiftly westwards, the cog still well to the front, although the galleys were slowly drawing in upon either quarter.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At the same time the Genoese sailors thrust with their oars against the side of the cog, and a rapidly widening rift appeared between the two vessels.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The yellow cog had now shot out from the narrow waters of the Solent, and was plunging and rolling on the long heave of the open channel.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I am the master-shipman of this yellow cog, and my name is Goodwin Hawtayne.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
High and bluff the English cog; long, black and swift the pirate galleys, like two fierce lean wolves which have seen a lordly and unsuspecting stag walk past their forest lair.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
