Log

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /lÉ’É¡/
• Rhymes: -É’É¡
• US IPA: /lÉ‘É¡/, /lɔɡ/

From Middle English logge, of unknown origin. That it descends from Old Norse lág ("a felled tree")

Webster 1913|log

is widely doubted on phonological grounds; an alternative is sound expression of the notion of something massive.

Full definition of log

Noun

1. The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.They walked across the stream on a fallen log.
2. Any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc.
• 1995: New American Standard Bible: Matthew 7, 3 – 5Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, "Let me take the speck out of your eye," and behold, the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
3. Anything shaped like a log; a cylinder.
• 1999, Glen Duncan, Hope... it was a thing of sinuous durability, wound around the spirit like a tapeworm around a log of shit.
• 2011, Edward Espe Brown, The Complete Tassajara CookbookDip both sides in the sauce on the plate and then arrange a log of cheese filling down the middle of the tortilla.
4. (nautical) A floating device, usually of wood, used in navigation to estimate the speed of a vessel through water.
5. A logbook.
6. (figuratively) A blockhead; a very stupid person.
7. (surfing slang) A longboard.
• 1999, Neal Miyake http://www.iav.com/~sponge/sesh/new2/sesh213.htmI know he hadn’t surfed on a log much in his childhood
8. (figuratively) A rolled cake with filling.
9. (mining) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
10. (vulgar) A piece of feces.

Synonyms

• (logbook)

Hyponyms

• (nautical) chip log, taffrail log
• (rolled cake) Swiss roll

Derived terms

Verb

1. (transitive) To cut trees into logs.
2. (transitive) To cut down (trees).
• 2013-06-29, Unspontaneous combustion, Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
3. (transitive) To travel at a specified speed, as ascertained by chip log.
4. (intransitive) To cut down trees in an area, harvesting and transporting the logs as wood.

Derived terms

• logger

Related terms

• (to cut down trees) logging

From logbook, itself from log (above) + book

Noun

1. A logbook, or journal of a vessel (or aircraft)'s progress
• 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, The captain sat down to his log, and here is the beginning of the entry:...
2. A chronological record of actions, performances, computer/network usage, etc.

Derived terms

• weblog

Verb

1. (transitive) To make, to add an entry (or more) in a log or logbook.to log the miles travelled by a ship
2. (transitive) To travel (a distance) as shown in a logbook

Derived terms

• log in

Related terms

• (to add an entry to a log) logbook, weblog/blog, log out/log off, log in/log on

Verb

1. (obsolete) To move to and fro; to rock.

Hebrew

Noun

1. A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills.