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Cog may refer to:

• A part of a gear system
• Cog (ship), a small sailing vessel
• A tenon that extends all the way through another piece of wood, in joinery
• The evil robots in Toontown Online
• The evil robot drones of the Machine Empire seen in Power Rangers: Zeo
• The humanoid robot at the center of the MIT Cog project
• The Mount Washington Cog Railway
• Cog, a Honda television commercial
• Cog (band), an Australian band
• Cog (Pinoy rock band), a Filipino rock band
• The programming language used in the Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II and Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith video games
• Cog, an audio player for Mac OS X

COG is an acronym for:

• Camp of God
• Canada Organic Growers
• Canberra Ornithologists Group
• CANDU Owner's Group
• Center of gravity
• Central of Georgia Railroad
• Changing of the Guard, also known as Guard Mounting
• Children of God
• Children's Oncology Group
• Chip-on-glass (electronics)
• Church of God
• City of Genoa schools
• The Coalition of Ordered Governments, a fictional world power from the Gears of War video game series.
• Code officiel géographique
• Codemasters Online Gaming, the account service for Massively multiplayer online games (MMO) provided by Codemasters
• COG MISSION
• COG protein database: Clusters of Orthologous Groups of proteins
• Collective of Geniuses
• Conserved Oligomeric Golgi complex
• Continuity of government plans
• Cost of goods
• Council of Governments
• Covenant of the Goddess
• The ISO 3-letter country code of the Republic of the Congo
• Commodity Grids (from Grid Computing; use: CoG Kits)
• Course On Ground (Used in Sailing)
• C0G (C zero G), another name for the NP0 temperature stable capacitor dielectric material

See also

• COGS (dab)

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English

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: kŏg, IPA: /kɒɡ/, SAMPA: /kQg/

  Rhymes: -ɒɡ

• (GenAm) enPR: kŏg, IPA: /kɑɡ/, SAMPA: /kAg/

  Rhymes: -ɑg

Etymology 1

Middle English cogge or kogge (14th century), Old French cogue or coque, Middle Low German kogge, Middle Dutch cogghe, Middle High German kocke, German kock (15th century).

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Noun

cog (plural cogs)

1. (historical) A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:

     As the Kynge was in his cog and lay in his caban, he felle in a slumberyng [...].

Translations

• German: Kogge de(de) f.

Etymology 2

Middle English cogge; confer Swedish kugge and Norwegian kug of same sense. Nonetheless, the exact relation between the English and the Scandinavian words can't be determined. The meaning of "cog" in carpentry derives from association with a tooth on a cogwheel.

Noun

cog (plural cogs)

1. A tooth on a gear
2. A gear; a cogwheel
3. A unimportant individual in a greater system.
   • 1976, Norman Denny (English translation), Victor Hugo (original French), Les Misérables

     ‘There are twenty-five of us, but they don’t reckon I’m worth anything. I’m just a cog in the machine.’

   • 1988, David Mamet, Speed-the-Plow

     Your boss tells you “take initiative,” you best guess right—and you do, then you get no credit. Day-in, ... smiling, smiling, just a cog.

4. (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

Translations

Derived terms

• cog joint

Etymology 3

Uncertain origin. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.

Noun

cog (plural cogs)

1. an act of cogging

Verb

to cog (third-person singular simple present cogs, present participle cogging, simple past and past participle cogged)

1. to cheat at dice
2. to cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently

Etymology 4

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Noun

cog (plural cogs)

1. A spelling variant of the noun cogue.

Scottish Gaelic

Verb

cog (present participle a' cogadh, simple past chog, past participle air chogadh)

1. to fight, to war