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If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and that's pretty cool. I would like to motivate the world.
Steve Gleason

Meaning of "cog" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COG

Of Scandinavian origin; compare Danish kogge, Swedish kugge, Norwegian kug.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF COG

cog  [kɒɡ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COG

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cog is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb cog in English.

WHAT DOES COG MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of cog in the English dictionary

The first definition of cog in the dictionary is any of the teeth or projections on the rim of a gearwheel or sprocket. Other definition of cog is a gearwheel, esp a small one. Cog is also a person or thing playing a small part in a large organization or process.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO COG

PRESENT

Present
I cog
you cog
he/she/it cogs
we cog
you cog
they cog
Present continuous
I am cogging
you are cogging
he/she/it is cogging
we are cogging
you are cogging
they are cogging
Present perfect
I have cogged
you have cogged
he/she/it has cogged
we have cogged
you have cogged
they have cogged
Present perfect continuous
I have been cogging
you have been cogging
he/she/it has been cogging
we have been cogging
you have been cogging
they have been cogging
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I cogged
you cogged
he/she/it cogged
we cogged
you cogged
they cogged
Past continuous
I was cogging
you were cogging
he/she/it was cogging
we were cogging
you were cogging
they were cogging
Past perfect
I had cogged
you had cogged
he/she/it had cogged
we had cogged
you had cogged
they had cogged
Past perfect continuous
I had been cogging
you had been cogging
he/she/it had been cogging
we had been cogging
you had been cogging
they had been cogging
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will cog
you will cog
he/she/it will cog
we will cog
you will cog
they will cog
Future continuous
I will be cogging
you will be cogging
he/she/it will be cogging
we will be cogging
you will be cogging
they will be cogging
Future perfect
I will have cogged
you will have cogged
he/she/it will have cogged
we will have cogged
you will have cogged
they will have cogged
Future perfect continuous
I will have been cogging
you will have been cogging
he/she/it will have been cogging
we will have been cogging
you will have been cogging
they will have been cogging
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would cog
you would cog
he/she/it would cog
we would cog
you would cog
they would cog
Conditional continuous
I would be cogging
you would be cogging
he/she/it would be cogging
we would be cogging
you would be cogging
they would be cogging
Conditional perfect
I would have cog
you would have cog
he/she/it would have cog
we would have cog
you would have cog
they would have cog
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been cogging
you would have been cogging
he/she/it would have been cogging
we would have been cogging
you would have been cogging
they would have been cogging
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you cog
we let´s cog
you cog
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to cog
Past participle
cogged
Present Participle
cogging
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COG

cofunction
cog railway
cogence
cogency
cogener
cogeneration
cogenerator
cogent
cogently
cogged
cogger
coggie
cogging
coggle
coggly
cogitable
cogitate
cogitation
cogitative
cogitatively

WORDS THAT END LIKE COG

analog
blog
bog
bulldog
dog
fog
frog
hog
hot dog
hot-dog
jog
log
nog
prog
put on the dog
Tagalog
the Little Dog
tog
vlog
weblog

Synonyms and antonyms of cog in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cog» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COG

Find out the translation of cog to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cog from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cog» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

COG
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cog
570 millions of speakers

English

cog
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दांत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لعب دورا مهما
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

винтиком
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cog
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চাকার দান্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dent
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cog
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zahn
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

코그
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cog
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

răng cưa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிறு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दांप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

diş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ingranaggio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

trybikiem
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гвинтиком
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cog
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

γρανάζι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rat
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kugge
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cog
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cog

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COG»

The term «cog» is very widely used and occupies the 14.189 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COG» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cog» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cog» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cog

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10 QUOTES WITH «COG»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word cog.
1
Jeff Ament
Everything Ticketmaster stands for is what we're fighting against. They're just a small cog in a machine where the artist is at the bottom.
2
John Jay Chapman
Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.
3
Paddy Considine
I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.
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Steve Gleason
If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and that's pretty cool. I would like to motivate the world.
5
James Gleick
Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul.
6
Randeep Hooda
At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.
7
Aldo Leopold
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
8
John M. McHugh
But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate.
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Scott Porter
I don't just want to be another cog in the gears of Hollywood.
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Georg Simmel
The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COG»

Discover the use of cog in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cog and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Naked
Whether he's taking to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, or celebrating Christmas in the company of a recently paroled prostitute, this collection of memoirs ...
David Sedaris, 2009
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The Mount Washington Cog Railway: Climbing the White ...
Local historian Bruce D. Heald ties the history of its construction together with the grand romance of the railway as they triumphantly converge at the top of Mount Washington.
Bruce D. Heald, 2011
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More than a Cog: An Approach to Working That Helps Good ...
1. A. "Cog". Defined. cog. (kog, kôg)noun 1. 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. 2. A subordinate member of an organization who ...
David Baron, 2014
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Death Cog:
Cog is a traditional pen and paper tabletop role playing game (RPG). Like many Tabletop RPGs, it is run by a Dungeon Master (DM) or storyteller, who controls all non-player characters, dungeons, loot, and the overall flow of events. The DM ...
Grog
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Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century
VVithout its skin, one can see all of Cog's delicate mechanical parts. It has miniature motors instead of muscles, metal bars instead of bones, and video cameras instead of eyes. It has one long arm with a large pincers at the end by means of ...
Michio Kaku, 2011
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Motorcycle Handling and Chassis Design: The Art and Science
To calculate the CoG position we only need to realize that the motorcycle would be balanced in any position if it were suspended at the CoG. That is, there is no nett gravitational moment about that point. If we start with a convenient reference  ...
Tony Foale, 2006
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Transactions of the American Entomological Society and ...
PAGE Andricus ? singnlaris 128 stropus Ashm 131, 136 topiarius Ashm 131, 136 tubicola 128 Tumcrii 131 utriculus 128 ventricosus 130 vireus 127 Anthrax, Monograph of 159 adumbrata Cog 161, 176 ienca Cog 160, 165 agrestis Coq 161, ...
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Interactions of Deuterons, Tritons, and 3He-nuclei with Nuclei
287) 4.00 30.00 Cog 67* 4.50 90.00 Cog 67* 5.00 160.0 Cog 67* 5.50 235.0 Cog 67* 6.00 335.0 Cog 67* 6.40 400.0 Cog 67* 6.80 410.0 Cog 67* 7.20 430.0 Cog 67* 7.50 465.0 Cog 67* 8.00 485.0 Cog 67* 8.30 455.0 Cog 67* 8.60 465.0 ...
H. Schopper, 1995
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The Rotarian
Are You a Cog? l Co-operation. A cog is not a thing0 in-itself. It exists for others and others exist for it. A cog believes in teamwork. Are you a cog? 2. Helping Others. A cog passes its energy on to another cog. All it gets from its neighbor behind ...
10
Encyclopedia of the Human Brain: A-Cog
Contains numerous peer-reviewed articles on the human brain from experts around the world.
V. S. Ramachandran, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COG»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cog is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Closing Bell Reports: Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation (COG), MGIC …
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation (COG) of the Basic Materials Sector closed the day at $30.51 (a change of -0.29%) at a relative volume of 0.74. «WallStreet Scope, Jul 15»
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Downward Momentum Stocks - Cabot Oil & Gas (COG), Anadarko …
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation (NYSE:COG) showing dropped of -1.39% and closed at $30.60, after gaining total volume of 3.97 million shares. «Techsonian, Jul 15»
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Higher gross margins are more profitable: Cabot Oil & Gas (COG
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation (NYSE:COG) has return on equity ratio of 6.40%. The company has $12.83 billion in market worth. Gross Profit ... «Investor Wired, Jul 15»
4
COG protests slow devolution of agriculture
He said CoG will put an advert in the local dailies this week on the devolved ... He was accompanied by the COG chairman Peter Munya. «The Standard Digital News, Jul 15»
5
COG Wants Farm Keys
"This is the end of the financial year and all licences have expired. As COG we direct all counties to take over functions under the Crop Act and ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
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Wharton storms to victory at Salt Ayre Cog Set youngsters race hard …
Salt Ayre Cog set youngsters put in a string of fine performances in round three of the North West Youth League at the Steven Burke circuit in ... «Lancaster Today, Jul 15»
7
R&N files suit against SEDA-COG Joint Rail Authority
The suit points out that JRA was established in 1983 under Pennsylvania's Municipality Authorities Act (MAA) and that “the MAA prohibits public ... «RailwayAge Magazine, Jul 15»
8
FOX's 'Minority Report' Adds Another Pre-Cog, Rewrites the Movie a …
Not only has Nick Zano joined the future-flung fall series as a new Pre-Cog, but so too does the actor replace who we'd thought to play the role. «ScreenCrush, Jun 15»
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Grand jury report, Kern COG survey on agenda
Also on the agenda is a presentation regarding a 786 page Kern COG report, focusing on key issues and concerns of the community. «Ridgecrest Daily Independent, Jun 15»
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Shares of Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation (NYSE:COG) Sees Large …
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation (NYSE:COG) dropped by -0.03 or -0.01 points during the last session to $31.46 per share. One of the highlights of ... «Insider Trading Report, Jun 15»

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