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Log   /lɔg/   Listen
Log

noun
1.
A segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches.
2.
The exponent required to produce a given number.  Synonym: logarithm.
3.
A written record of messages sent or received.  "An email log"
4.
A written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane).
5.
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.
verb
(past & past part. logged; pres. part. logging)
1.
Enter into a log, as on ships and planes.
2.
Cut lumber, as in woods and forests.  Synonym: lumber.



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"Log" Quotes from Famous Books



... Dutton Shaw, sitting on a log, with my feet in a swamp. But we've found out where the old spring is, and we're going to pipe it down ...
— Actions and Reactions • Rudyard Kipling
... on him through tear-hung lashes, and his soul swelled with pride as he saw how his tone subdued her. She did not even ask what he had done. Except when he was steering a big log down the mountain to his mill he had never known such ...
— Ethan Frome • Edith Wharton
... too much co-operation from the observer's mind. Besides, I had never seen a boy with anything approaching the muscular development of the epileptic youth in the centre. The thing in the picture that I most approved of was the end of the log in the little pool, in the foreground; it looked ...
— Hawthorne and His Circle • Julian Hawthorne
... on saying; "but all the same I don't think you are. After you've shown me, it's just like that egg Columbus stood up on end, after cracking the shell a bit—as easy as jumping off a log, once you know how. But now we're in here, I hope we find out the truth soon, don't ...
— The Saddle Boys of the Rockies - Lost on Thunder Mountain • James Carson
... the devout admiration of her tone rather puzzling him. "It ain't that. I just want to see the thing through. I dropped into it by accident, and then I dropped into this by accident, and that made it as easy as falling off a log. I believe he's going to get well sometime. I guess I kind of like him because he holds on to me so and believes I'm just It. Maybe it's because I'm stuck ...
— T. Tembarom • Frances Hodgson Burnett


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