1 a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches
2 large log at the back of a hearth fire [syn: backlog]
3 the exponent required to produce a given number [syn: logarithm]
4 a written record of messages sent or received; "they kept a log of all transmission by the radio station"; "an email log"
5 a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane)
6 measuring instrument that consists of a float that trails from a ship by a knotted line in order to measure the ship's speed through the water
1 enter into a log, as on ships and planes
- Rhymes: -ɒɡ
Etymology 1Origin unknown.
- The trunk of a dead
- They walked across the stream on a fallen log.
- A logbook, or journal; a record.
- (surfing slang)
- I know he hadn’t surfed on a log much in his childhood — Neal Miyake 1999 http://www.iav.com/~sponge/sesh/new2/sesh213.htm
- A rolled cake with filling. A Swiss roll.
trunk of dead tree
- To cut down trees.
- To make an entry in a log.
cut down trees
make an entry in a log
- A logarithm.
Nounlog singular vocative form of logs
Etymology 1Germanic *loga-, from Indo-European *legh-. Cognate with Old Frisian lōch, Old High German luog. The IE root is also the source of Greek λεκτρον, Latin lectus ‘bed’, Celtic *leg- (Old Irish lige, Irish luighe), Slavic *ležati (Russian лежать).
- sv-verb-form-past le
Log may refer to:
- Wooden log, also known as timber, wood from trees used for construction or wood pulp for paper production
- Data log, a record of sequential data
- Logbook, a log of important events in the management, operation and navigation of a ship
- Web log, Web's log, Weblog, 'blog, or blog, a reverse chronological journal
- Logarithm, the mathematical operation that is the inverse of exponentiation, or the result of this operation.
- Log (urban-type settlement), an urban-type settlement in Volgograd Oblast, Russia
- Log (journal), an architectural magazine
- Chip log, a device used in navigation to measure the speed of a ship
- Laplacian of Gaussian
- The Log (guitar), a nickname given to Les Paul's first solid body electric guitar built in the 1930s
log in German: Log
log in Spanish: Log
log in French: Log
log in Italian: LOG
log in Dutch: Log
log in Japanese: ログ
log in Polish: Log
log in Portuguese: Log
log in Russian: Log
log in Slovenian: Log
log in Urdu: نوشتہ
log in Chinese: 日志
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