Word Finder - cogs

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A tooth on a gear.

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A gear; a cogwheel.

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An unimportant individual in a greater system.

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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.

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One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.

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A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull.

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A trick or deception; a falsehood.

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A small fishing boat.

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A small round wooden vessel for holding milk.

Mr. O'Hara stared at her, the cogs of thought turning.

From the gate road a heading called a bolt-hole is opened, and extended into a large rectangular chamber, known as a " side of work," large pillars being left at regular intervals, besides smaller ones or cogs.

It can seldom be obtained in large portions, and has the disadvantage of being apt to warp; its great hardness, however, renders it valuable for the manufacture of various articles, such as the cogs of mill-wheels, flails and mallets, and handles of hammers.

Separate teeth, fixed into mortises in the rim of the wheel, are called cogs.

The inking arrangements are usually very good, for, by a system of racks and cogs which may be regulated to a nicety, the necessary distribution of ink and rolling of the printing surface runs in gear with the travelling type bed or coffin.

This drum has a series of small cogs which move the web or tapes in the same direction.

It felt as if I could really see the cogs in their minds turning and hear the clicking as the theory all made sense.

The main icon in the EMS design is the service icon which uses cogs to representing a service.

I also got a K'nex set with which you can build a lot of models, most of them have cogs in.

Otherwise, indigenous peoples will continue to be mere cogs in the wheels of these billion-dollar industries.

This bolt governs the distance between the rear gear's top jockey wheel and the rear cogs.

Whether keeping accounting records or running the company payroll, accountants are essential cogs in the wheels of industry.

The current release consists of over 3300 COGs, from 43 complete genomes, representing 30 major phylogenetic lineages.

Wheels creak on their axles as the cogs engage one another and the revolving pulleys whirr with the rapidity of their movement, but a neighboring wheel is as quiet and motionless as though it were prepared to remain so for a hundred years; but the moment comes when the lever catches it and obeying the impulse that wheel begins to creak and joins in the common motion the result and aim of which are beyond its ken.

It has tooted racks in the center of the track that engage with cogs under the carriages.

The cogs were working behind those blue eyes.