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单词 cogwheel
释义

cogwheel

noun

cog·​wheel ˈkäg-ˌ(h)wēl How to pronounce cogwheel (audio)
: a wheel with cogs : gear sense 6a(2)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The menu will likely be a cogwheel app icon in your app drawer or home screen. Toby Grey, BGR, 24 May 2022 Klaessy captured the idyllic scene during a boat ride, and then took a 30-minute trip on a cogwheel railway that dates to 1893 — with a gradient reaching 48% — up Mount Stanserhorn. Star Tribune, 11 Dec. 2020 To streamline the visitor experience further, the Eiger Express will act as a shortcut, directly connecting passengers from Eigergletscher Station to the final, cogwheel section of the Jungfraubahn. Mike Maceacheran, Travel, 5 Dec. 2020 Wedged between a dental office and a liquor store in a Pennsylvania strip mall, the place hardly looks like a cogwheel of international commerce. Emma Vickers, Bloomberg.com, 13 May 2020 Lovelace kept up a correspondence with the English inventor Charles Babbage, who worked his whole life on a huge brass cogwheel engine that could compute logarithmic tables, to be used by astronomers and navigators. Paul Grimstad, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2020 Like the travelers, Punkka rode a cogwheel train from Kleine Scheidegg through a tunnel under the mountain to get there. Rachel Hartigan Shea, National Geographic, 9 Dec. 2019 Cap off your time here with a journey by cogwheel train past picturesque mountain villages to arrive at Jungfraujoch, the highest railway station in Europe. National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2019 Spenuzza recalls potty training her youngest son, then 2 years old, on cogwheel trains in Switzerland. Aliese Muhonen, Daily Pilot, 24 July 2019 See More

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

cogwheel

noun

cog·​wheel ˈkäg-ˌhwēl How to pronounce cogwheel (audio)
-ˌwēl
: a wheel with cogs on the rim
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