cog
n. 嵌齿, 小船 vt. 给...装配齿轮, 欺骗
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词形变化
释义与例句
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1.
A tooth on a gear.
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2.
A gear; especially, a cogwheel.
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3.
An unimportant individual in a greater system.
just a cog in the machine
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.
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4.
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.
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One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
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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.
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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.
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A small fishing boat.
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A trick or deception; a falsehood.
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Alternative form of cogue (“wooden vessel for milk”).
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Initialism of center of gravity
物理
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To furnish with a cog or cogs.
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Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.
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To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
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To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
1726, Jonathan Swift (debated), Molly Mog For guineas in other men's breeches, / Your gamesters will palm and will cog.
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To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
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To plagiarize.
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To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
to cog in a word
October 3, 1718, John Dennis, letter to S. T. , Esq; On the Deceitfulness of Rumour Fustian tragedies […] have […] been cogg'd upon the town for Master-pieces.
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词源
Inherited from Middle English cogge, from Old Norse *kogge, *koggr (see Old Swedish kogge, kogger), from Proto-Germanic *kuggō (“cog, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gugā (“hump, ball”), from *gēw- (“to bend, arch”). Compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”). Cognates includes: Swedish kugg, kugge (“cog tooth”), Norwegian kugg (“cog”). The meaning of “cog” in carpentry derives from association with a tooth on a cogwheel. Compare Old Swedish koggavidher (“cog wood”), “wood reserved for a millwheel”. See also dialectal English cag (“stump”), keg; Old Norse kaggi (“keg”) + -gi (diminutive suffix), from the Germanic base *kagô (“bush, branch, stalk, stump”); also found in Bavarian Kag (“the stalk or stem of a cabbage”); dialectal Swedish kage (“treestump; piece of wood; post”), kagg or kagge (“scythe handle”); Norwegian Nynorsk kage or kagge (“low lying bush, small tree”), dialectal kagg (“scythe handle”); Old English ċeacga (“broom, furze, gorse”), whence English chag (“branch”), also Old English cyċġel, English cudgel (“knotty club”). The ultimate origin could be related to English cog (“cargo boat”) (Dutch kogge), probably named for its “round swollen” appearance.
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