Cog vs. Gear
Difference Between Cog and Gear
Cognoun
A tooth on a gear.
Gearnoun
(uncountable) Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
Cognoun
A gear; a cogwheel.
Gearnoun
Clothing; garments.
Cognoun
An unimportant individual in a greater system.
Gearnoun
(obsolete) Goods; property; household items.
Cognoun
(carpentry) 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.
Gearnoun
(countable) A wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other; a gear wheel.
Cognoun
(mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
Gearnoun
A particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved.
Cognoun
(historical) A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull.
Gearnoun
A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque.
Cognoun
A trick or deception; a falsehood.
Gearnoun
(slang) Recreational drugs, including steroids.
Cognoun
A small fishing boat.
Gearnoun
Stuff.
Cogverb
To furnish with a cog or cogs.
Gearnoun
(obsolete) Business matters; affairs; concern.
Cogverb
To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
Gearnoun
Anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.
Cogverb
To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
Gearverb
To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.
Cogverb
To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
Gearverb
To be in, or come into, gear.
Cogverb
To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
to cog in a wordGearverb
To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
Cognoun
tooth on the rim of gear wheel
Gearverb
(usually with to or toward(s)) To design or devise (something) so as to be suitable (for a particular type of person or a particular purpose).
This shop is not really geared towards people of our age.They have geared the hotel mainly at tourists.Cogverb
roll steel ingots
Gearadjective
great or fantastic
Cogverb
join pieces of wood with cogs
Gearnoun
a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
Gearnoun
a mechanism for transmitting motion by gears for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle)
Gearnoun
equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
Gearverb
set the level or character of;
She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience
