What's the difference between cog and cop?

Cog


Definition:

  • (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.

Cop


Definition:

  • (n.) The top of a thing; the head; a crest.
  • (n.) A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.
  • (n.) A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
  • (n.) Same as Merlon.
  • (n.) A policeman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cop rats, however, possess a single 'suppressor' gene which confers complete resistance to mammary cancer.
  • (2) Copolymer 1 (Cop 1) is a synthetic basic random copolymer of amino acids that has been shown to be effective in suppression of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis and has been proposed as a candidate drug for multiple sclerosis.
  • (3) What the hell is the point of cops looking like this?
  • (4) Instead of inevitable defeat there is uncertain cop-out.
  • (5) COP-BLAM III therapy was given to 18 patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and the therapeutic effects as well as adverse effects of the treatment were examined.
  • (6) A new electrophoretic variant of the lactate dehydrogenase B subunit was found in the erythrocytes of the COP strain of the rat.
  • (7) Three independent BFA-resistant cell lines (BER-40 from Vero cells, PtK1, and MDCK) showed cross-resistance to EDIN regarding the release of the beta-COP from the Golgi membrane by EDIN or BFA.
  • (8) I'd like to say it's all a biting satire of American military practices (I know Busty Cops Go Hawaiian certainly was) but chances are it's just about a bunch of big meanie spiders.
  • (9) He shouted “Cops Lives Matter” before being drowned out with the “Bernie” chant.
  • (10) I will ask that by [next] Saturday midday the text will be transmitted to me, the president of the COP, and at that moment everyone will know where we are and the procedure to follow.
  • (11) That’s when the police riot squad arrived, because of course you cannot set fire to a bar with cops in it.” He recalled injured protestors being treated in nearby Washington Square Park and Quakers from the local church coming to help.
  • (12) Cops were smashing people with bicycles and nightsticks."
  • (13) "We're talking about payments for news tips from cops: that's been going on a hundred years, absolutely," said Murdoch.
  • (14) We sampled a sawn-off shotgun and an assault rifle, but cops do get tasers and tear gas to add some urban flavour.
  • (15) The COP regime was the most frequently used therapeutic regimen.
  • (16) "But I can assure you, if I had known that cops were sitting in car parks, they would have been deployed pretty quickly," he said.
  • (17) "There will be a meeting of the 22 countries of the COPS [the EU's political and security committee] ... if not today then tomorrow," Kouchner told reporters in Paris.
  • (18) The FBI’s “justifiable homicides” database is considered the best measure of cop killings in the US, but even the attorney general, Eric Holder, called the lack of comprehensive numbers “unacceptable” last month .
  • (19) More than 60 officers, who might be investigating a burglary in your street, are zealously pursuing other cops and public officials who may, or may not, have taken bungs from Sun journalists in return for information.
  • (20) I heard him say to another cop: “I don’t even know why they told me to lock this guy up.

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