cog
齿轮
Related Words
Definitions
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- : a gear tooth, formerly especially one of hardwood or metal, fitted into a slot in a gearwheel of less durable material.
- : a cogwheel.
- : a person who plays a minor part in a large organization, activity, etc.: He's just a small cog in the financial department.
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cogged, cog·ging.
- : to move jerkily.
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cogged, cog·ging.
- : to roll or hammer into a bloom or slab.
Phrases
- cog in the wheel
- slip a cog
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Without some help from Washington, there’s no way that number doesn’t continue to climb — right as those same workers are crucial cogs to vaccine distribution.
In a sign of the times, “Instagram editor” is now an official title at The Washington Post and a key cog in the newspaper publisher’s subscription business.
How well they fit in and make that transition from startup to big company cog, will go a long way in determining the success of this transaction in the long run.
Where you can literally see the cogs turning and they get to a position, or they come up with an explanation.
On Android, from Settings go to Accessibility and Text-to-speech output, then tap the cog next to Preferred engine and choose Install voice data.
A poor cog in the machine, she seemed to feel no more disgrace than a blood-diamond miner.
You might be a cog at a trading desk, compensated with nothing but money.
The apples are heaped on all sides, and are first crushed between wooden cog-wheels and caught in tubs.
Nay,” returned Mr. Archer with a smile, “no man can put complete reliance in blind fate; he must still cog the dice.
Each one is a cog in the vast organization and one slip may disrupt the whole arrangement.
Back in the East, things have been settled for so long that a man's only a cog in a machine.
Here, though, was evidence either that the War Lord was running out of metal or that his system had slipped a cog.