Crossword-Solution: COG
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cog | v. t. | To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat. |
| Cog | v. t. | To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off. |
| Cog | v. i. | To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole. |
| Cog | n. | A trick or deception; a falsehood. |
| Cog | n. | 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. |
| Cog | n. | 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. |
| Cog | n. | A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak. |
| Cog | n. | One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine. |
| Cog | v. t. | To furnish with a cog or cogs. |
| Cog | n. | A small fishing boat. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| COG | anagram | CGO, GOC |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NCAROE
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COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with COG (5)
The failure of the wireless did not appear as momentous to me as to him, which is not unnatural, since it is but human to feel that when our own little cog slips, the entire universe must necessarily be put out of gear.
The electricity produced passes forward, where it works, by electro-magnets of great size, on a system of levers and cog-wheels that transmit the movement to the axle of the screw.
She's a new breed! I was as good a mother as 'twas in my skin to be, and I'd like to see a child of mine do it for me; and as for my grandchildren, it hustles some of them to re-cog-nize me passing on the big road, 'specially if it's Peter's girl with a town beau.” The Harvester laughed.
Archer with a smile, ‘no man can put complete reliance in blind fate; he must still cog the dice.’ By this time he had got upon the rock beside the upper fall, and, bidding her look out, dropped a piece of rush into the middle of the intake.
You see, the pump would be arranged with cog-wheels and all that sort of thing, and the power would be supplied by a weight, which would be a cylinder of lead or iron, fastened to a rope and run down inside your pipe.
Quotes with COG (3)
The whole tendency of modern life is towards scientific planning and organisation, central control, standardisation, and specialisation. If this tendency was left to work itself out to its extreme conclusion, one might expect to see the state transformed into an immense social machine, all the individual components of which are strictly limited to the performance of a definite and specialised function, where there could be no freedom because the machine could only work smooth…
An introspective person seeks to attain a pure state of consciousness by merging finitude in infinity and by expressing the rapture of the soul through the contemplation and adoration of beauty. In this brief interlude of time, I surrender to becoming a cog in the roadway, an insentient time traveler, a ward of eternity, a day-tripper, a nighttime dream weaver, a blip in the cosmos, a freebase glob of energy, an imaginable disk of bundled vitality that wants for nothing.
And I thought, I am in love. For the first time I am in love. And loved. Someone loves me. And I love them. And within me things clicked and whirled like the insides of some gigantic clock, cog against wheel, spring against spiral, tick against tock, and I knew that nothing would ever be the same again. I had shown someone what I really was. I had shown someone my truth, my secret. Out there, beyond the walls of the Castle, there was a boy who had seen inside my chrysalis. And I would never be safe again.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 230 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).