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klɒg, klɔgclog

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. clog, geta, patten, sabotnoun

    footwear usually with wooden soles

  2. clognoun

    any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction

  3. clog dance, clog dancing, clogverb

    a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps

  4. clog, choke off, clog up, back up, congest, choke, foulverb

    become or cause to become obstructed

    "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"

  5. clogverb

    dance a clog dance

  6. clogverb

    impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden

    "horses were clogged until they were tamed"

  7. clog, constipateverb

    impede with a clog or as if with a clog

    "The market is being clogged by these operations"; "My mind is constipated today"

  8. clog, clotverb

    coalesce or unite in a mass

    "Blood clots"

  9. clog, overloadverb

    fill to excess so that function is impaired

    "Fear clogged her mind"; "The story was clogged with too many details"

Wiktionary

  1. clognoun

    A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.

    Dutch people rarely wear clogs these days.

  2. clognoun

    A blockage.

    The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.

  3. clogverb

    To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Clognoun

    Etymology: from the verb.

    I’m glad at soul I have no other child;
    For thy escape would teach me tyranny,
    To hang clogs on them. William Shakespeare, Othello.

    I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs,
    By the known rules of ancient liberty. John Milton, Par. Reg.

    As a dog committed close,
    For some offence, by chance breaks loose,
    And quits his clog; but all in vain,
    He still draws after him his chain. Hudibras.

    The weariness of the flesh is an heavy clog to the will. Richard Hooker.

    They’re our clogs, not their own: if a man be
    Chain’d to a galley, yet the galley’s free. John Donne.

    Their prince made no other step than rejecting the pope’s supremacy, as a clog upon his own power and passions. Jonathan Swift.

    Slavery is, of all things, the greatest clog and obstacle to speculation. Jonathan Swift.

    In France the peasantry goes barefoot; and the middle sort, throughout all that kingdom, makes use of wooden clogs. Gideon Harvey, on Consumptions.

  2. To CLOGverb

    Etymology: It is imagined by Stephen Skinner to come from log; by Meric Casaubon derived from ϰλόιος, a dog's collar, being thought to be first hung upon fierce dogs.

    If you find so much blood in his liver as will clog the foot of a flea, I’ll eat the rest of the anatomy. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night.

    Let a man wean himself from these worldly impediments, that here clog his soul’s flight. Kenelm Digby, on the Soul, Dedication.

    The wings of birds were clog’d with ice and snow. Dryd.

    Fleshly lusts do debase men’s minds, and clog their spirits, make them gross and foul, listless and unactive. John Tillotson.

    Gums and pomatums shall his flight restrain,
    While clogg’d he beats his silken wings in vain. Alexander Pope.

    The gutter’d rocks and congregated sands,
    Traitors ensteep’d to clog the guiltless keel. William Shakespeare.

    His majesty’s ships were not so over-pestered and clogged with great ordnance as they are, whereof there is superfluity. Walter Raleigh, Essays.

    Since thou hast far to go, bear not along
    The clogging burthen of a guilty soul. William Shakespeare, Richard II.

    You’ll rue the time
    That clogs me with this answer. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    They lanc’d a vein, and watch’d returning breath;
    It came, but clogg’d with symptoms of his death. Dryden.

    All the commodities that go up into the country, are clogged with impositions as soon as they leave Leghorn. Addison.

    Clocks and Jacks, though the screws and teeth of the wheels and nuts be never so smooth, yet, if they be not oiled, will hardly move; though you clog them with never so much weight. John Ray, on the Creation.

  3. To Clogverb

    Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together. John Evelyn, Kalendar.

    In working through the bone, the teeth of the saw will begin to clog. Samuel Sharp, Surgery.

Wikipedia

  1. Clog

    Clogs are a type of footwear made in part or completely from wood. Used worldwide, their forms can vary by culture, but often remained unchanged for centuries within a culture. Traditional clogs remain in use as protective footwear in agriculture and in some factories and mines. Although they are sometimes negatively associated with cheap and folkloric footwear of farmers and the working class, some types are considered fashion wear today, such as Swedish träskor or Japanese geta. Clogs are also used in several different styles of dance, where an important feature is the sound they produce against the floor. Clog dancing is one of the fundamental roots of tap dancing, but with tap shoes the taps are free to click against each other and produce a different sound from clogs.

ChatGPT

  1. clog

    A clog is a type of shoe or sandal with a thick, typically wooden sole. Originally worn in rural communities across Europe, they are often associated with traditional Dutch or Swedish culture. Alternatively, 'clog' can also refer to an obstruction or jam in a system, machine, or passageway, hindering movement or function.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Clog

    that which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind

  2. Clog

    a weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion

  3. Clog

    a shoe, or sandal, intended to protect the feet from wet, or to increase the apparent stature, and having, therefore, a very thick sole. Cf. Chopine

  4. Clogverb

    to encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper

  5. Clogverb

    to obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel

  6. Clogverb

    to burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex

  7. Clogverb

    to become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter

  8. Clogverb

    to coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass

  9. Etymology: [OE. clogge clog, Scot. clag, n., a clot, v., to to obstruct, cover with mud or anything adhesive; prob. of the same origin as E. clay.]

Wikidata

  1. Clog

    A clog is a type of footwear made in part or completely from wood. Clogs are used worldwide and although the form may vary by culture, within a culture the form often remained unchanged for centuries. Traditional clogs were often worn in heavy labor. Today they remain in use as protective clothing in agriculture and in some factories and mines. Although clogs are sometimes negatively associated with cheap and folkloric footwear of farmers and the working class, some types of clogs are considered as fashion wear today, such as Swedish clogs or Japanese geta. Clogs are also used in several different styles of dance. When worn for dancing an important feature is the sound of the clog against the floor. This is one of the fundamental roots of tap, but with the tap shoes the taps are free to click against each other and produce different sound to clogs.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Clog

    klog, n. a piece of wood: anything hindering motion: an obstruction: an impediment: a shoe with a wooden sole.—v.t. to fasten a piece of wood to: to accumulate in a mass and cause a stoppage: to obstruct: to encumber: to put clogs on.—ns. Clog′-al′manac, an early form of almanac having the indicating characters notched on wood, horn, &c.; Clog′-dance, a dance performed with clogs, the clatter keeping time to the music.—adj. Clogged, encumbered.—ns. Clog′ger, one who makes clogs; Clog′giness.—adj. Clog′gy, lumpy, sticky. [Ety. dub.; prob. related to Clay; cf. Scot. clag, to cover with mud; claggy, muddy, sticky.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of CLOG in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of CLOG in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of CLOG in a Sentence

  1. Raj Dasgupta:

    What are going to be things that could block or clog or upper airways ? It's going to be the tonsils, the uvula, the soft palate and the tongue.

  2. Dale Wilcox:

    It also provides yet another incentive for more illegal aliens to come and will further clog up our immigration courts, some of the most backed up in the nation.

  3. Tim Steffen:

    You can think of it as concrete where the water is not being absorbed into the soils ; it's all just running off, downstream of those fire scars all that water is running off, some debris as well from the fire, and that can clog culverts. Those areas are susceptible to flash flooding more so than those areas that haven't been burned.

  4. Saj Khan:

    Dr Homer said. The laser treats only the iris and does not enter the pupil or treat any portion of the inside of the eye where the nerves affecting the vision are located. The company is still in the fundraising stage but hopes to have completed clinical trials within several years. And the cost of turning your brown eyes blue ? Dr Homer says Stroma Medical would charge around $ 5,000( £ 3,120) for the procedure. Industry skepticism Industry reaction to the process has been muted. Ophthalmologists who deal with people's eyes, Dr Homer concedes, have every right to be skeptical for the simple fact they are dealing with one of the most sensitive organs in the human body. Saj Khan, an ophthalmologist at the London Eye Hospital, told CNN the treatment raised some red flags. ' The main concern with any procedure that involves releasing pigment inside the eye is that the pigment can clog up the normal drainage channels which can in turn cause the pressure inside the eye to go up, if that happens significantly enough, for long enough, it's how patients develop glaucoma.

  5. Venu Menon:

    While these symptoms lack specificity they will empower more people to alert EMS, on the flip side, a large proportion of worried well may also clog up limited EMS services if an alarmist approach is taken.

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  • препятствие, преча, задръствам, пречкаBulgarian
  • esclopCatalan, Valencian
  • ucpatCzech
  • træskoDanish
  • βουλώνω, εμποδίζω, τσόκαρο, εμπόδιο, φράζω, ξυλοπάπουτσοGreek
  • congestionar, bloqueo, atascar, obstrucción, atorar, obstruir, zueco, azolvar, bloquearSpanish
  • puukenkäFinnish
  • tuflaFaroese
  • sabot, bouchonFrench
  • tacht, paitíní, bac, calc, paitínIrish
  • klumpaHungarian
  • tréskór, klossi, stífla, hnallurIcelandic
  • zoccolo, tappo, ostruire, ostruzione, intasare, intasamentoItalian
  • 방해물Korean
  • klikataLatvian
  • kūkā, taipuru, whakaapi, kūtāMāori
  • кломпаMacedonian
  • verstopping, klompDutch
  • zapychać, zapchać, drewniakPolish
  • obstrução, tamanco, entupirPortuguese
  • înfundaRomanian
  • препя́тствие, засори́ть, забива́ть, сабо́, засоря́ть, заби́ть, засо́р, про́бкаRussian
  • träskoSwedish

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