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