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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



... That took her a year, and now she is breaking up my habit of reading nothing but novels. She gets us all down in the end. One day when she and Joe were little children they were out at the wood-pile, and Georgiana was sitting on a log eating a jam biscuit, with her feet on the log in front of her. Joe had a hand-axe, and was chopping at anything till he caught sight of her feet. Then he went to the end of the log, and whistled like a steamboat, ...
— A Kentucky Cardinal • James Lane Allen
... thing—we shall have to be very careful when we are out in boats, for if we were to run upon a sunken log and knock a hole in the boat's bottom, there would not be much chance of our ever ...
— Among Malay Pirates - And Other Tales Of Adventure And Peril • G. A. Henty
... nerve," stated Irish, "after the deal they got last night. I'd have bet good money that you couldn't drag them herders across Flying U coulee with a log chain." ...
— Flying U Ranch • B. M. Bower
... large a size, one would have supposed, to have beaten over the reef. As the water grew shoaler I could see an even pipe clay bottom, on which our boat grounded an hundred yards from the shore. One of the inhabitants came off in a flat bottom'd log canoe about 25 feet long and 2-1/2 wide, hailed us in Spanish, demanding who we were, and was answered by Manuel ...
— Narrative of the shipwreck of the brig Betsey, of Wiscasset, Maine, and murder of five of her crew, by pirates, • Daniel Collins
... roused by raindrops splashing on my face. I sat up hastily. Aggie was sleeping with the flap of her bag over her head, and Tish, under an umbrella, was sitting fully dressed on a log, poring over her road map. When I sat up she glanced over ...
— More Tish • Mary Roberts Rinehart


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