| Subject | English | Russian |
| proverb | a cog in the wheel | мелкая сошка |
| fig.of.sp. | cog in the wheel | "винтик в механизме" (slitely_mad) |
| ed. | cog in the wheel | "винтик в механизме" (slitely_mad) |
| police | cog in the wheel of a security apparatus | винтик аппарата безопасности (They were accused by prosecutors of being cogs in the wheel of a security apparatus where torture is carried out on an almost industrial scale. Alex_Odeychuk) |
| gen. | cog-wheel effect in the stereolabile helical enantiomers of dimesityl sulfoxide and sulfone | эффект зубчатого колеса в стереолабильных спиральных энантиомерах димезитилсульфоксида и димезитилсульфона |