Cog vs. Hog — What's the Difference?

A wheel or bar with a series of projections on its edge, which transfers motion by engaging with projections on another wheel or bar

A domesticated pig, especially a castrated male reared for slaughter.

A broadly built medieval ship with a rounded prow and stern.

A large motorcycle, in particular a Harley Davidson.

Copy (someone else's work) illicitly or without acknowledgement

A young sheep before the first shearing.

One of a series of teeth, as on the rim of a wheel or gear, whose engagement transmits successive motive force to a corresponding wheel or gear.

Take or use most or all of (something) in an unfair or selfish way

A cogwheel.

Cause (a ship or its keel) to curve up in the centre and sag at the ends as a result of strain.

A subordinate member of an organization who performs necessary but usually minor or routine functions.

Any of various mammals of the family Suidae, which includes the domesticated pig as well as wild species, such as the wild boar and the warthog.

An instance of cheating; a swindle.

A domesticated pig weighing over 54 kilograms (120 pounds).

A tenon projecting from a wooden beam designed to fit into an opening in another beam to form a joint.

A self-indulgent, gluttonous, or filthy person.

To load or manipulate (dice) fraudulently.

One that uses too much of something.

To cheat, especially at dice.

Chiefly British A young sheep before it has been shorn.

To join with tenons.

The wool from this type of sheep.

A tooth on a gear.

(Slang) A big, heavy motorcycle.

A gear; a cogwheel.

(Informal) To take more than one's share of

An unimportant individual in a greater system.

To cause (the back) to arch like that of a hog.

(carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.

To cut (a horse's mane) short and bristly.

(mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.

To shred (waste wood, for example) by machine.

(historical) A clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged mediaeval ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull and a single mast, typically 15 to 25 meters in length.

(Nautical) To arch upward in the middle. Used of a ship's keel.

(by extension) A small fishing boat.

Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.

A trick or deception; a falsehood.

(specifically) An adult swine contrasted with a pig, a young swine.

To furnish with a cog or cogs.

(slang) A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share.

(intransitive) Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.

(slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.

To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.

(UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.

To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.

(nautical) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.

To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.

A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.

To plagiarize.

A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.

To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.

A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.

To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.

A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.

To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off.

(nautical) the effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop

To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.

(transitive) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.

To furnish with a cog or cogs.

(transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.

A trick or deception; a falsehood.

(nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.

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.

To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).

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.

A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidæ; esp., the domesticated varieties of Sus scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.

One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.

A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow.

A small fishing boat.

A young sheep that has not been shorn.

Tooth on the rim of gear wheel

A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.

Roll steel ingots

A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.

Join pieces of wood with cogs

To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse.

To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.

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.

A person regarded as greedy and pig-like

A sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared

Domestic swine

Take greedily; take more than one's share