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Cog vs. Gear

Cog and Gear Definitions

Cog

One of a series of teeth, as on the rim of a wheel or gear, whose engagement transmits successive motive force to a corresponding wheel or gear.

Gear

A toothed machine part, such as a wheel or cylinder, that meshes with another toothed part to transmit motion or to change speed or direction.

Cog

A cogwheel.

Gear

A complete assembly that performs a specific function in a larger machine.

Cog

A subordinate member of an organization who performs necessary but usually minor or routine functions.

Gear

A transmission configuration for a specific ratio of engine to axle torque in a motor vehicle.
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Cog

An instance of cheating; a swindle.

Gear

Equipment, such as tools or clothing, used for a particular activity
Fishing gear.

Cog

A tenon projecting from a wooden beam designed to fit into an opening in another beam to form a joint.

Gear

Clothing and accessories
The latest gear for teenagers.

Cog

To load or manipulate (dice) fraudulently.

Gear

Personal belongings, including clothing
Keeps her gear in a trunk.
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Cog

To cheat, especially at dice.

Gear

The harness for a horse.

Cog

To join with tenons.

Gear

A ship's rigging.

Cog

A tooth on a gear.

Gear

A sailor's personal effects.
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Cog

A gear; a cogwheel.

Gear

To equip with gears.

Cog

An unimportant individual in a greater system.

Gear

To connect by gears.

Cog

(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.

Gear

To put into gear.

Cog

(mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.

Gear

To adjust or adapt so as to make suitable
Geared the speech to a conservative audience.

Cog

(historical) A 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.

Gear

To provide with gear; equip.

Cog

(by extension) A small fishing boat.

Gear

To come into or be in gear.

Cog

A trick or deception; a falsehood.

Gear

To shift a transmission
Geared down to take the curve.

Cog

To furnish with a cog or cogs.

Gear

To become adjusted so as to fit or blend.

Cog

(intransitive) Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.

Gear

(uncountable) Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.

Cog

To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.

Gear

Clothing; garments.

Cog

To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.

Gear

(obsolete) Goods; property; household items.

Cog

To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.

Gear

(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.

Cog

To plagiarize.

Gear

A particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved.

Cog

To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
To cog in a word

Gear

A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque.

Cog

To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
I'll . . . cog their hearts from them.

Gear

(aviation) landing gear
Gear-up landing
Get the gear down quick!

Cog

To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off.
Fustian tragedies . . . have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces.
To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice.

Gear

Recreational drugs, including steroids.

Cog

To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.
For guineas in other men's breeches,Your gamesters will palm and will cog.

Gear

Stuff.

Cog

To furnish with a cog or cogs.

Gear

(obsolete) Business matters; affairs; concern.

Cog

A trick or deception; a falsehood.

Gear

Anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.

Cog

A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel.

Gear

To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.

Cog

A kind of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface.

Gear

To be in, or come into, gear.

Cog

One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.

Gear

To dress; to put gear on; to harness.

Cog

A small fishing boat.

Gear

(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.

Cog

Tooth on the rim of gear wheel

Gear

(finance) To borrow money in order to invest it in assets.

Cog

Roll steel ingots

Gear

Great or fantastic

Cog

Join pieces of wood with cogs

Gear

Clothing; garments; ornaments.
Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear.

Gear

Goods; property; household stuff.
Homely gear and common ware.

Gear

Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.
Clad in a vesture of unknown gear.

Gear

The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.

Gear

Warlike accouterments.

Gear

Manner; custom; behavior.

Gear

Business matters; affairs; concern.
Thus go they both together to their gear.

Gear

A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.

Gear

See 1st Jeer (b).

Gear

Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.
That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man.

Gear

To dress; to put gear on; to harness.

Gear

To provide with gearing.

Gear

To adapt toward some specific purpose; as, they geared their advertising for maximum effect among teenagers.

Gear

To be in, or come into, gear.

Gear

A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion

Gear

A mechanism for transmitting motion by gears for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle)

Gear

Equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.

Gear

Set the level or character of;
She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience

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