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A cog is one of the small teeth around the edge of a gear wheel inside a machine — these teeth lock into another wheel's teeth so the parts turn together. People also say 'a cog in the machine' to describe a person who is just one small, replaceable part of a big organization, without much individual importance.
齒輪的齒;(比喻)組織中渺小的一份子
同家族的字
- cogwheela compound word — a wheel made up of cogs
原始詞典資料23 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cognoun詞源 1/kɒɡ/
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A tooth on a gear.
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A gear; especially, a cogwheel.
- She said: " We're not wasting time. While the cogs of Parliament continue to whir, we will continue to work on the rolling stock and infrastructure strategy, the national transport integrated strategy, and our accessibility roadmap.
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An unimportant individual in a greater system.
- just a cog in the machine
- All the old problems, the stale ones, both personal and general, had been solved by one mighty slash. Heaven alone knew as yet what others might arise - and it looked as though there would be plenty of them - but they would be new. I was emerging as my own master, and no longer a cog.
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businesscarpentryconstructionA 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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businessminingOne of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
cogverb詞源 1/kɒɡ/
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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.
cognoun詞源 2/kɒɡ/
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historicalA 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.
- The name of the ship was Dawn Treader. She was only a little bit of a thing compared with one of our ships, or even with the cogs, dromonds, carracks and galleons which Narnia had owned when Lucy and Edmund had reigned there under Peter as the High King, for nearly all navigation had died out in the reigns of Caspian's ancestors.
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historicalThe 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.
cognoun詞源 3/kɒɡ/
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A trick or deception; a falsehood.
- False suggestions, shamelesse cogs, and impious forgeries.
cogverb詞源 3/kɒɡ/
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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.
- I'll mountebank their loves, Cog their hearts from them.
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To plagiarize.
- […] his themes and exercises were in constant demand for what we called cogging and American students rather grandly called plagiarization. Shakespeare and Eliot plagiarized; we grimly cogged in the early morning-oh, […]
- Coming to journalism, how many of us have not been guilty at some stage of 'cogging' from other articles, […]
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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.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。