cog | (noun) tooth on the rim of gear wheel | Synonyms: sprocket |
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(noun) a subordinate who performs an important but routine function | - |
(verb) join pieces of wood with cogs | - |
(verb) roll steel ingots | - |
cogency | (noun) the quality of being valid and rigorous | Synonyms: rigor, rigour, validity |
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(noun) persuasive relevance | - |
cogent | (adjective) powerfully persuasive | Synonyms: telling, weighty |
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cogged | (adjective) having cogs | - |
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coggle | (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: dodder, paddle, toddle, totter, waddle |
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(verb) move unsteadily | Synonyms: wobble |
cogitable | (adjective) capable of being thought about | Synonyms: ponderable |
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cogitate | (verb) use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments | Synonyms: cerebrate, think |
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(verb) consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind | - |
cogitation | (noun) attentive consideration and meditation | Synonyms: study |
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(noun) a carefully considered thought about something | - |
cogitative | (adjective) of or relating to having capacities for cogitation | - |
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(adjective) given to cogitation | - |
cognate | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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(adjective) having the same ancestral language | - |
(adjective) related in nature | Synonyms: connate |
(noun) a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language | Synonyms: cognate word |
(noun) one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another | Synonyms: blood relation, blood relative, sib |
cognation | (noun) (anthropology) the condition of being related by blood | Synonyms: blood kinship, consanguinity |
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(noun) line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family | Synonyms: enation, matrilineage |
cognisable | (adjective) capable of being known | Synonyms: cognizable, cognoscible, knowable |
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cognisance | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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cognisant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognizant |
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cognise | (verb) be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about | Synonyms: cognize, know |
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cognition | (noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | Synonyms: knowledge, noesis |
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cognitive | (adjective) of or being or relating to or involving cognition | - |
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cognitively | (adverb) with regard to cognition | - |
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cognizable | (adjective) capable of being known | Synonyms: cognisable, cognoscible, knowable |
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cognizance | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognisance, consciousness, knowingness |
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(noun) range of what one can know or understand | Synonyms: ken |
(noun) range or scope of what is perceived | - |
cognizant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognisant |
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cognize | (verb) be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about | Synonyms: cognise, know |
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cognomen | (noun) the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) | Synonyms: family name, last name, surname |
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(noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, moniker, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet |
cognoscente | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: connoisseur |
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cognoscible | (adjective) capable of being known | Synonyms: cognisable, cognizable, knowable |
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cogwheel | (noun) a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion | Synonyms: gear, gear wheel, geared wheel |
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