Dictionary Definition
clog
Noun
2 any object that acts as a hindrance or
obstruction
3 a dance performed while wearing clogs; has
heavy stamping steps [syn: clog dance,
clog
dancing]
Verb
1 become or cause to become obstructed; "The
leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"
[syn: choke
off, clog
up, back
up, congest,
choke, foul] [ant: unclog]
2 dance a clog dance
3 impede the motion of, as with a chain or a
burden; "horses were clogged until they were tamed"
4 impede with a clog or as if with a clog; "The
market is being clogged by these operations"; "My mind is
constipated today" [syn: constipate]
5 coalesce or unite in a mass; "Blood clots"
[syn: clot]
6 fill to excess so that function is impaired;
"Fear clogged her mind"; "The story was clogged with too many
details" [syn: overload] [also: clogging, clogged]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /klɒɡ/
- Rhymes with: -ɒɡ
Noun
Derived terms
Translations
a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden
sole and an open heel
- Dutch: klomp
- Hungarian: klumpa
- Spanish: zueco
- Swedish: träsko
a blockage
- ttbc Portuguese: tamanco
- ttbc Slovenian: cokla
Verb
Translations
to block or slow passage through
- Czech: ucpat
Irish
Pronunciation
- lang=ga|[kl̪ˠɔɡ]
Declension
Extensive Definition
A clog can be:
- A shoe with a rigid, often wooden, sole; see clog (shoe).
- A blockage in plumbing such as hairballs, grease or other clumping materials, which is generally removed by use of a plunger, plumber's snake or chemical drain cleaner.
- Clog, a British brand of rock-climbing equipment.
- CLOG is an acronym for CLusters of Orthologous Groups of proteins
- Clogging, a traditional type of percussive folk dance which is associated with a number of different regions across the world.
- The Cloggies, a cartoon strip about a troop of clog dancers.
- Clogs, a band.
- Clogagge, past tense (Keasbey version)
See also
clog in French: Sabot (homonymie)
clog in Dutch: Hoef
clog in Dutch Low Saxon: Hoef
clog in Polish: Sabot
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
arrest,
bar, barrier, bearing rein, bind, bit, blank wall, blind alley, blind
gut, block, block up,
blockade, blockage, bottleneck, brake, bung, caulk, cecum, chain, check, checkrein, chink, chock, choke, choke off, choke up,
choking, choking off,
clog up, congest,
congestion, constipate, constipation, cork, costiveness, countercheck, cover, cul-de-sac, curb, curb bit, dam, dam up, damper, dance, dead end, doorstop, drag, drag sail, drift anchor,
drift sail, drogue,
embolism, embolus, encumber, fetter, fill, fill up, foot, foul, fox-trot, gorge, hamper, holdback, hoof, hop, impasse, impede, impediment, infarct, infarction, jam, martingale, obstacle, obstipate, obstipation, obstruct, obstruction, pack, pelham, plug, plug up, prance, remora, scotch, sea anchor, sealing off,
shackle, shake, shimmy, shuffle, skip, snaffle, spile, spoke, stanch, stay, stench, stop, stop up, stoppage, stopper, stopple, strangulation, stuff, stuff up, tap-dance,
trammel, trip, waltz