cog

UK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈkɒg/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/kɑg, kɔg/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(kog, kôg)

Inflections of 'cog' (v): (⇒ conjugate)
cogs
v 3rd person singular
cogging
v pres p
cogged
v past
cogged
v past p
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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

Principal Translations
InglésEspañol
cog,
cogwheel n		 (cogwheel)engranaje nm
  piñón nm
  (en rueda dentada)diente nm
 A broken cog caused the mechanism to stop turning.
 Un engranaje roto hizo que el mecanismo dejase de girar.
cog n figurative (minor employee)subalterno nm
  operario nm
 I'm just a cog in a huge corporation.
 Soy sólo un subalterno en una corporación enorme.
cog n historical (sailing ship)coca nf
 The use of cogs was widespread in the 1100s.
 El uso de las cocas estaba difundido en los años 1100.
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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

Compound Forms:
InglésEspañol
cog in the wheel,
cog in the machine n		 figurative (small part of a large system)eslabón de la cadena nm + loc adj
 He's just a cog in the wheel, not a leader.
 No es un líder, sólo es un eslabón de la cadena.
cog railway,
rack railway n		 (type of railroad)tren de cremallera nm + loc adj
  riel dentado nm + adj
slip a cog v expr figurative, informal (make a blunder) (coloquial, figurado)meter la pata loc verb
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'cog' aparece también en las siguientes entradas:
Spanish:
álabe - engrane - diente


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