(v. t.) To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
(v. t.) To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off.
(v. i.) To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.
(n.) A trick or deception; a falsehood.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak.
(n.) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
(v. t.) To furnish with a cog or cogs.
(n.) A small fishing boat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Polish Government Despite his clear-eyed approach to the looted artworks, Wächter maintains that his father was an unwilling cog in the Nazi killing machine, a position that has won him many critics.
(2) Radioimmunoassays carried out on acidic extracts of the same organs confirm the molecular results and lead us to conclude to the presence of substances strongly related to MK in the ovotestis as well as in the circumoesophageal ganglia (COG), and to ascertain that the MK-positive tentacular collar cells do not contain authentic MK.
(3) Recombination at his-3 in Neurospora crassa is thought to be initiated through a site designated cog which lies in the his-3 to ad-3 interval of linkage group I. Fragments of the his-3 gene were used to transform various his-3 mutant alleles to prototrophy in order to link the genetic map to the nucleotide sequence.
(4) On the other hand, the patient was noticed lethargic and showed parkinsonism i.e., rest tremor, cog-wheel rigidity, and hypokinesia.
(5) But this larger-than-life character was only a small cog in Fifa’s global money-making machine and the FBI successfully persuaded him to wear a wire tap and rat on his fellow officials – in a classic law-enforcement sting usually directed at mobsters.
(6) This protein was not detected in surface protein preparations of class 1 COG- mutants.
(7) It added: “A review of declarations of interest confirmed the CoG did not disclose these on the [2014] annual declaration.” In a letter dated 8 March, the government’s Education Funding Agency said there had been “serious breaches of the academies financial handbook, including serious concerns about financial management, control and governance”.
(8) We drive to the seafront, where two fishermen are toiling to the rear of the beach, turning cogs that wind a rope attached to their boat to tug it in from the sea over wooden planks.
(9) Selection for spontaneously occurring Cog- mutants gave rise to two phenotypic classes of mutants.
(10) You take a train from Interlaken to Wilderswil and then the cog railway to Schynige Platte at 2,000m for breakfast with spectacular views of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau.
(11) COG in combination with subsequent behavioral hearing screening was a sensitive strategy for detecting significant hearing loss: only one child was missed with this combination.
(12) The Spurs had a 11-point lead at one point here, James wasn't scoring, Wade had more turnover than points and Rashard Lewis was the biggest offensive cog.
(13) The helices are packed in such a way as to be embedded in each other as cog-wheels.
(14) These findings are confirmed by the COG study of prolonged 5-FU which shows prolongation of disease-free survival of borderline statistical significance for Dukes' C colon (P = 0.051) + rectum (P = 0.016).
(15) Although headache-index comparisons of the two active treatments showed no advantage for adding cognitive therapy to PMR, a measure of clinically significant change showed a trend for PMR + Cog to be superior to PMR alone.
(16) A total of 270 patients with metastatic malignant melanoma were entered into a randomized chemotherapy study conducted by the Central Oncology Group (COG) over a period of 2 years (COG protocol No.
(17) Doctors do not work in a void – we are part of a team, and every part of that team is a necessary cog in the machine.
(18) I would describe my role as a small cog in the gears.
(19) The Cards DH will be another important bat, Allen Craig, one of four Cardinals to hit over .300 this season, but a cog that missed the first two Cardinals postseason series with foot issues - this also turned out just fine for the Cardinals.
(20) Five months after head injury, when he was first admitted to us, he was stable with signs of oligokinesia, katatonic posture, speechlessness, rigid muscle tones and positive cog-wheel phenomenon.
Coo
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a low repeated cry or sound, like the characteristic note of pigeons or doves.
(v. i.) To show affection; to act in a loving way. See under Bill, v. i.
Example Sentences:
(1) Deviations from Michealis-Menten kinetics in the pig-heart citrate synthase (citrate-oxaloacetate-lyase(pro-3S-CH2-COO-leads to acetyl-CoA), EC 4.1.3.7) system have been characterized and analyzed in view of the kinetic theory described in the preceding paper.
(2) We conclude that both proprioceptive feedback and audio-feedback must be involved to yield maximal stimulation of follicular growth by the female's nest-coo display.
(4) The limited solubility of cholesterol in negatively charged phospholipids is found to be independent of the nature of the acyl chain residues, and independent of whether the negative charge resides on both COO- and PO- groups (as in phosphatidylserine) or on PO- only (as in phosphatidic acid).
(5) Like scores of men here, he spends hours in this rooftop retreat with his cooing companions.
(6) All these data suggest that the native polysaccharide possesses ordered secondary structure stabilized by nonionic interactions outweighing the repulsion between adjacent COO- groups.
(7) The antagonist GDEE had 90% of its whole population in folded conformations with a distance of about 3 A degrees between COO-...COO- groups.
(8) This difference in follicular growth suggests that the females' own cooing, not the males' cooing, stimulates the ovarian response.
(9) A NH3+(Ser1)-COO-(Arg4) salt bridge, as well as any form of turn stabilized by hydrogen bonds can be ruled out with certainty.
(10) Enterprise technology veteran Stephanie Buscemi, COO of Salesforce’s cloud business, knows all too well the challenges facing women in her industry.
(11) Together, these pH profiles provide sufficient information to suggest that only the minor zwitterionic species of ornithine, H2N(CH2)3CH(NH3+)COO-, binds the enzyme productively.
(12) Three cases with typical cooing murmurs in degenerated porcine valves at mitral positions were studied.
(13) Analysis of variance showed that (1) the mean spectral energy (MSE) levels of "pain-induced" cries were significantly higher than those of the other two types of cries and that the MSE of all three types of cries was significantly higher than that of cooing; and (2) that the mean spectral energy in any vocalization by 6-month-old infants of either sex was significantly lower than that in any vocalization of younger infants.
(14) The second partial ORF starts 67 bp downstream of cooS and would be capable of encoding 35 amino acids with an ATP-binding site motif.
(15) EDC reactive side groups other than COO- (e.g., tyrosyl-OH or sulfhydryls) can be discarded as candidates for the underlying chemical reaction.
(16) Molecular graphics analysis revealed that the propenoyl side chain of the spin-label exhibits an extended trans conformation and that the ethyl moiety of the ester group deviates significantly from coplanarity with the carboxylate--COO--atoms.
(17) Nest-coo (courtship) vocalization is an estrogen-dependent component of a sequence of behaviors leading to egg-laying in the ring dove (Streptopelia risoria).
(18) The torsion angles of the alpha-methyl group, NH3+ and COO- groups with respect to Cv are in molecules A and B respectively +67.2, +66.8, -174.3, -175.6, and -59.2 and -59.5 degrees.
(19) The distribution of spectral energy among four types of infant vocalizations was compared via computerized spectral analyses of "pain-induced," "fussy," and "hungry" cries and "cooing" of 30 2-6-month-old infants.
(20) The fatty acyl groups of these compounds, unlike those of usual phospholipids, were all saturated and were mixtures of even and odd numbered carbon chains; their [M-CnH2n+1-COOCH2]+ and [M-Cn+1H2n+3COO]+ peaks overlapped.