Cog vs. Sprocket — 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 sprocket, sprocket-wheel or chainwheel is a profiled wheel with teeth that mesh with a chain, track or other perforated or indented material. The name 'sprocket' applies generally to any wheel upon which radial projections engage a chain passing over it.

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

Any of various toothlike projections arranged on a wheel rim to engage the links of a chain.

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

A wheel having such teeth along its rim. Also called sprocket wheel.

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.

A cylinder with a toothed rim that engages in the perforations of photographic or movie film to pull it through a camera or projector.

A cogwheel.

(mechanical engineering) A toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band.

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

The tooth of such a wheel.

An instance of cheating; a swindle.

(architecture) A flared extension at the base of a sloped roof.

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

A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.

To load or manipulate (dice) fraudulently.

A tooth or projection, as on the periphery of a wheel, shaped so as to engage with a chain.

To cheat, especially at dice.

Roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through

To join with tenons.

Thin wheel with teeth that engage with a chain

A tooth on a gear.

Tooth on the rim of gear wheel

A gear; a cogwheel.

An unimportant individual in a greater system.

(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.

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

(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.

(by extension) A small fishing boat.

A trick or deception; a falsehood.

To furnish with a cog or cogs.

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

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

To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.

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

To plagiarize.

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

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

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

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

To furnish with a cog or cogs.

A trick or deception; a falsehood.

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.

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.

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

A small fishing boat.

Tooth on the rim of gear wheel

Roll steel ingots

Join pieces of wood with cogs