cog

About 0.55 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. symbol ISO 639-3 language code for Chong.
2. noun A tooth on a gear.
3. noun A gear; especially, a cogwheel.
4. noun An unimportant individual in a greater system.

   just a cog in the machine

5. noun 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.
6. noun One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
7. verb To furnish with a cog or cogs.
8. verb Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.

Similar words

sprocket gear cycle trap piece spiral tooth gbl seda goc

Often followed by

in and railway wheel wheels of is was to

Word family

cogged cogging cogs