More than once I've felt my heart slip a cog. 我不止一次感到心脏突然停跳一下。
cog cogged, cogging
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a subordinate who performs an important but routine function
<noun.person> he was a small cog in a large machine
tooth on the rim of gear wheel
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roll steel ingots
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join pieces of wood with cogs
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Cog \Cog\ (k[o^]g), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cogged} (k[o^]gd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cogging}.] [Cf. W. coegio to make void, to beceive, from coeg empty, vain, foolish. Cf. {Coax}, v. t.] 1. To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat. [R.]
I'll . . . cog their hearts from them. --Shak.
2. To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off. [R.]
Fustian tragedies . . . have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces. --J. Dennis
To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice. --Swift.
Cog \Cog\, v. i. To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.
For guineas in other men's breeches, Your gamesters will palm and will cog. --Swift.
Cog \Cog\, n. A trick or deception; a falsehood. --Wm. Watson.
Cog \Cog\, n. [Cf. Sw. kugge a cog, or W. cocos the cogs of a wheel.] 1. (Mech.) A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel.
2. (Carp.) (a) A kind of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface. (b) A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak. --Knight.
3. (Mining.) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
Cog \Cog\, v. t. To furnish with a cog or cogs.
{Cogged breath sound} (Auscultation), a form of interrupted respiration, in which the interruptions are very even, three or four to each inspiration. --Quain.
Cog \Cog\, n. [OE. cogge; cf. D. kog, Icel. kuggr Cf. {Cock} a boat.] A small fishing boat. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
The Rainbow Kitchen is one cog amid all the soup lines, food banks, churches and senior citizen centers nationwide that make up an ever-growing, mostly volunteer and imperfect machine that distributes millions of pounds of free food every year.
"Larry will be a very important cog in the future success of Braniff," Mr. Foley says.
Lech Walesa strode into the Parliament building, the sound of applause from opposition lawmakers filling the hall that was once a mere cog in the Communist government.