cogとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Cogwheel showing the teeth (cogs).

From Middle English cogge, from Old Norse [Term?] (compare Norwegian kugg (“cog”), Swedish kugg, kugge (“cog, tooth”)), from Proto-Germanic *kuggō (compare Dutch kogge (“cogboat”), German Kock), from Proto-Indo-European *gugā (“hump, ball”) (compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”)), from *gēw- (“to bend, arch”).

The meaning of “cog” in carpentry derives from association with a tooth on a cogwheel.

名詞

cog (複数形 cogs)

1. A tooth on a gear.
2. A gear; a cogwheel.
3. An 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.
5. (mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.

派生語

動詞

cog (三人称単数 現在形 cogs, 現在分詞 cogging, 過去形および過去分詞形 cogged)

1. To furnish with a cog or cogs.

語源 2

From Middle English cogge, from Middle Dutch kogge, cogghe (modern kogge), from Proto-Germanic *kuggō (compare German Kock (“cogboat”), Norwegian kugg (“cog (gear tooth)”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gugā (“hump, ball”) (compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”)), from *gēw- (“to bend, arch”). See etymology 1 above.

名詞

cog (複数形 cogs)

1. (historical) A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull.
2. A small fishing boat.

語源 3

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

名詞

cog (複数形 cogs)

1. A trick or deception; a falsehood.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of William Watson to this entry?)

動詞

cog (三人称単数 現在形 cogs, 現在分詞 cogging, 過去形および過去分詞形 cogged)

1. To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
2. 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.

3. To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
   • c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:

     I'll mountebank their loves,
     Cog their hearts from them.

4. 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.

名詞

cog (複数形 cogs)

1. Alternative form of cogue (“wooden vessel for milk”)

アナグラム

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