cog vs throttle

cog

noun
  • A gear; a cogwheel. 

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

  • A tooth on a gear. 

  • 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. 

  • A small fishing boat. 

  • A trick or deception; a falsehood. 

  • 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. 

  • An unimportant individual in a greater system. 

verb
  • To furnish with a cog or cogs. 

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

  • To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently. 

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

  • To plagiarize. 

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

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

throttle

noun
  • The lever or pedal that controls this valve. 

  • A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine. 

verb
  • To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated. 

  • To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate. 

  • To control or adjust the speed of (an engine). 

  • To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated. 

  • To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.). 

  • To strangle or choke someone. 

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