Definitions for CLOG
klɒg, klɔgclog

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Clognoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. A load; a weight; any incumbrance hung upon any animal or thing to hinder motion.

   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.

   2. An incumbrance; a hindrance; an obstruction; an impediment.

   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.

   3. A kind of additional shoe worn by women, to keep them from wet.4. A wooden shoe.

   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.

   1. To load with something that may hinder motion; to encumber with shackles; to impede, by fastening to the neck or leg a heavy piece of wood or iron.

   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.

   2. To hinder; to obstruct.

   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.

   3. To load; to burthen; to embarrass.

   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.

   4. In the following passage it is improper.

   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

   1. To coalesce; to adhere. In this sense, perhaps, only corruptly used for clod or clot.

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

   2. To be encumbered or impeded by some extrinsick matter.

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

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

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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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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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1. CLOG

   What does CLOG stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the CLOG acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Matched Categories

1. • Coalesce
   • Dance
   • Dancing
   • Encumber
   • Fill
   • Footwear
   • Hindrance
   • Slow

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How to pronounce CLOG?

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   Australian

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How to say CLOG in sign language?

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. 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.

2. Charles A. Stoddard:

   When we can say "no" not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.

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. 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.

5. Larry Orton:

   It could be easily equipped to handle drainline stoppages, we have a number of different snakes—some with cameras, some with extended cables—that we use, depending on the clog. We could fit all the snakes and some repair materials on the City Express, along with a larger sewer machine and pressure-jetting equipment. I would rig the van with a winch to help unload the heavier equipment and bins for materials. And the dual side doors make access from either side excellent. You don’t need to crawl all over everything to get what you need. It would be the ideal specialized vehicle for that.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=CLOG
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Clog
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=CLOG
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clog
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/CLOG
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=CLOG
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=CLOG
9. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=CLOG