(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.
Hog
Definition:
(n.) A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.
(n.) A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow.
(n.) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
(n.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
(n.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.
(v. t.) To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse.
(v. t.) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
(v. i.) To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.
Example Sentences:
(1) It could be demonstrated by radioimmune precipitation of virus labeled with[35S]methionine that all three polypeptides are specific for hog cholera virions.
(2) The gastric polypeptides of 100 kilodaltons representing (H+-K+)-ATPase in the rat gastric mucosa or isolated hog gastric membranes were covalently labeled with [14C]omeprazole.
(3) The District became a byword for crime and drug abuse, while its “mayor for life” lived high on the hog and lurched cheerfully from one scandal to the next.
(4) Urate oxidase from hog liver (urate: oxygen oxidoreductase, EC 1.7.33) has been entrapped in a crosslinked 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate gel with a 47% retention of activity.
(5) This report describes the partial purification of an HMW renin from hog kidney extracts which had previously been acidified to pH 2.5.
(6) Optimal conditions with respect to pH, concentration of glutaraldehyde and enzyme, and order of addition of enzyme and crosslinking reagent were established for the immobilization of hog kidney D-amino acid oxidase to an attapulgite support.
(7) They confirm the original identification of the three color vision genes, which was based on genetic evidence [Nathans, J., Thomas, D., & Hogness, D.S.
(8) Pestiviruses comprise a group of economically important animal pathogens, namely hog cholera, bovine viral diarrhoea and border disease viruses.
(9) We used the polymerase chain reaction to amplify one common fragment of several different strains of both hog cholera virus and bovine virus diarrhea virus (BVDV).
(10) In the purified hog preparation only a 95,000-Da band, the (H+ + K+) ATPase was labeled, while in the rabbit preparation a 95,000-Da band and one other membrane protein of 70,000 Da were labeled with this reagent.
(11) The work, The Spear, by Brett Murray, unleashed a brouhaha that has hogged headlines for more than a week in South Africa and earned that inexhaustible accolade "painting-gate".
(12) Cultural examination of cecal contents from 109 market weight hogs slaughtered in Prince Edward Island during May-July 1988 yielded 62 isolates of Campylobacter coli and seven Campylobacter jejuni.
(13) This material could be removed in bovine and hog plasma by a cation-exchange resin, allowing an assay of the plasma prorenin concentration to be constructed in these species.
(14) There was no evidence that the rapid initial kinin release in plasma from allergic patients caused by submaximum concentrations of hog pancreas kalikrein or by acetone-activated human plasma (2) was due to an increased level of prekallikrein activator (activated factor XII), to prekallikrein itself or to a factor possibly positioned between active factor XII and prekallikrein.
(15) The enzyme concentration dependence of spectrophotometric titrations of hog kidney D-amino acid oxidase [EC 1.4.3.3] with p-aminobenzoate was studied.
(16) The results suggest that the active site of hog liver flavin-containing monooxygenase places greater constraints than that of cytochrome P-450IIB-1 on substrate orientation, but in both cases trans-S-oxide formation is strongly preferred possibly due to steric interactions of the substrate and the active site.
(17) Km values are 6.6 mM and 13 mM for human and hog enzymes respectively.
(18) This colonic K(+)-ATPase activity was inhibited completely by monoclonal antibody HK4001, which inhibits the hog gastric H+,K(+)-ATPase activity but not Na+,K(+)-ATPase or Ca(2+)-ATPase.
(19) With a long-term (1 and 4 months) introduction of an additional amount of edible fats (beef, hog fats, butter, sunflower seed oil) to intact and intratracheally quartz-dust laden sexually mature male rats an organ-specific reaction to the supply of fat, and in intact rats, also some peculiarities of the reaction depending upon the kind of the introduced fats, were discovered.
(20) Atomic absorption spectrophotometry and neutron activation analysis showed the presence of mercury in organic extracts of seed grain and in tissues of hogs fed the contaminated grain.