log
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Is log a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of log?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (nautical) A floating device, usually of wood, used in navigation to estimate the speed of a vessel through water.Examples: "1659, Navigation by the Mariners Plain Scale New Plain'd, by John Collins Every Noon the Master and his Mates take the reckoning off the Log-board, and double the Knots run, and then divide the Product, which is the number of Miles run by three, the quotient is the Leagues run since the former Noon, and according to custom the Log is thrown every two hours, and I never knew the course nearer expressed on the Log-board, then to half a point of the Compass."
2. (figuratively) A blockhead; a very stupid person.figuratively
3. (surfing slang) A heavy longboard.Examples: "1999, Neal Miyake https://web.archive.org/web/20060530122555/http://www.iav.com/~sponge/sesh/new2/sesh213.htm I know he hadn’t surfed on a log much in his childhood"slang
4. (figuratively) A rolled cake with filling.figuratively
5. (mining) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
6. (vulgar) A piece of feces.vulgar
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To cut trees into logs.transitive
2. (transitive) To cut down (trees).Examples: "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."transitive
3. (intransitive) To cut down trees in an area, harvesting and transporting the logs as wood.intransitive
noun (English)
1. (computer science) Specifically, an append-only sequential record of events written to a file, display, or other data stream.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To make, to add an entry (or more) in a log or logbook.Examples: "to log the miles travelled by a ship"transitive
2. (transitive) To travel (a distance) as shown in a logbook.transitive
3. (transitive) To travel at a specified speed, as ascertained by a chip log.transitive
verb (English)
1. (video games) To log out; to disconnect from an online video game.Examples: "You only won that game because your last opponent logged. That's no fair!"
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) To move to and fro; to rock.obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary