Usually means: Wheel with teeth, engages others.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. cog: Merriam-Webster
  2. cog, cog, cog: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cog, cog, cog, cog: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cog: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cog: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cog, cog: Wordnik
  7. cog: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cog: Wiktionary
  9. cog: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cog: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cog: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cog, cog, cog: Dictionary.com
  13. cog: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cog: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. C.O.G, COG (band), Cog (Honda), Cog (advert), Cog (advertisement), Cog (band), Cog (project), Cog (ship), Cog (software), Cog (television commercial), Cog: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cog: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cog: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cog: Rhymezone
  19. Cog: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cog: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. COG, CoG: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. cog: FreeDictionary.org
  23. cog: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. cog: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. cog, cog: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. cog: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. cog-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Cog (disambiguation), cog: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cog (disambiguation), cog: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. COG: Acronym Finder
  3. COG: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. cog: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cog, cog, cog, cog: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cog: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. C.O.G, COG, The cog: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cog: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. COG: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  4. COG: Latitude Mexico
  5. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See cogged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A tooth on a gear.
noun:  A gear; a cogwheel.
noun:  An unimportant individual in a greater system.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
verb:  To furnish with a cog or cogs.
verb:  (intransitive) Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.
noun:  (historical) 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.
noun:  (historical) 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.
noun:  (by extension) A small fishing boat.
noun:  A trick or deception; a falsehood.
verb:  To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
verb:  To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
verb:  To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
verb:  To plagiarize.
verb:  To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
noun:  Alternative form of cogue (“wooden vessel for milk”) [(chiefly Scotland) A small round wooden vessel for holding milk.]
noun:  Initialism of center of gravity. [(physics) A point, near or within a body, through which its weight can be assumed to act when considering forces on the body and its motion under gravity. This coincides with the center of mass in a uniform gravitational field.]
noun:  (nautical) Abbreviation of course over ground.
noun:  Initialism of Church of God: numerous, mostly unrelated Christian denominations.

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