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Log

Log Meaning & Definition
Log Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Log?

[n] 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
[n] a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane)
[n] a written record of the transmissions by a radio station
[n] the exponent required to produce a given number
[n] a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches
[n] large log at the back of a hearth fire
[v] enter into a log, as on ships and planes
[v] cut lumber, as in woods and forests

Synonyms | Synonyms for Log: backlog | logarithm | lumber

Related Terms | Find terms related to Log: accelerometer | account book | accounts payable ledger | accounts receivable ledger | address book | adversaria | album | anemometer | annals | annual | appointment calendar | appointment schedule | backlog | balance | balance sheet | balance the books | bank ledger | bankbook | bavin | beam | billet | blankbook | blotter | board | boarding | book | books | boom | brush | brushwood | calendar | capitalize | card ledger | carry | carry over | carve | cashbook | cast loose | cast up accounts | catalog | chalk | chalk up | charge off | check in | check sheet | chronicle | chronology | clap on ratlines | clapboard | classified catalog | clear hawse | clock card | close out | close the books | commonplace book | cord | cordwood | cost card | cost ledger | cost sheet | court calendar | credit | cut | cut loose | date slip | datebook | daybook | deal | debit | desk calendar | diary | diptych | docket | Domesday Book | driftwood | engagement book | engrave | enroll | enscroll | enter | factory ledger | fagot | file | fill out | firewood | grave | ground log | hardwood | harpoon log | haul | haul down | heave | heave apeak | heave round | heave short | impanel | incise | index | inscribe | insert | inventory | jot down | journal | journalize | kedge | keep books | kindling | kindlings | lath | lathing | lathwork | lay | lay aloft | ledger | list | log line | logbook | loose-leaf notebook | lumber | Mach meter | make a memorandum | make a note | make an entry | make out | mark down | matriculate | memo book | memorandum book | memory book | minute | note | note down | notebook | pad | panelboard | paneling | panelwork | passbook | patent log | petty cashbook | place upon record | plank | planking | plyboard | plywood | pocket notebook | pocketbook | pole | police blotter | poll | post | post up | puncheon | purchase ledger | put down | put in writing | put on paper | put on tape | ratline down | record | record book | reduce to writing | register | registry | sales journal | sales ledger | scrapbook | scratch pad | set down | shake | sheathing | sheathing board | sheeting | shingle | sideboard | siding | slab | slat | softwood | spar down | speedometer | spiral notebook | splat | stave | stick | stick of wood | stock ledger | stores ledger | stovewood | stream the log | strike a balance | suspense ledger | table | tablet | tabulate | tachometer | taffrail log | take down | tape | tape-record | three-by-four | timber | timbering | timberwork | time book | time chart | time scale | time schedule | time sheet | time study | timecard | timetable | traverse a yard | triptych | two-by-four | unlash | videotape | warp | weatherboard | wind gauge | wood | workbook | write | write down | write in | write out | write up | writing tablet | yearbook | yule clog | yule log

See Also | clock up | common logarithm | cut down | drop | enter | exponent | fell | firewood | harpoon log | index | log line | log up | measuring device | measuring instrument | measuring system | Napierian logarithm | natural logarithm | patent log | power | put down | record | saw log | screw log | ship | strike down | taffrail log | wood | written account | written record | Yule log

Log In Webster's Dictionary

\Log\, n. [Heb. l[=o]g.] A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills. --W. H. Ward.
\Log\, n. [Icel. l[=a]g a felled tree, log; akin to E. lie. See {Lie} to lie prostrate.] 1. A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing. 2. [Prob. the same word as in sense 1; cf. LG. log, lock, Dan. log, Sw. logg.] (Naut.) An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water. Note: The common log consists of the log-chip, or logship, often exclusively called the log, and the log line, the former being commonly a thin wooden quadrant of five or six inches radius, loaded with lead on the arc to make it float with the point up. It is attached to the log line by cords from each corner. This line is divided into equal spaces, called knots, each bearing the same proportion to a mile that half a minute does to an hour. The line is wound on a reel which is so held as to let it run off freely. When the log is thrown, the log-chip is kept by the water from being drawn forward, and the speed of the ship is shown by the number of knots run out in half a minute. There are improved logs, consisting of a piece of mechanism which, being towed astern, shows the distance actually gone through by the ship, by means of the revolutions of a fly, which are registered on a dial plate. 3. Hence: The record of the rate of ship's speed or of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book. 4. A record and tabulated statement of the work done by an engine, as of a steamship, of the coal consumed, and of other items relating to the performance of machinery during a given time. 5. (Mining) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave. {Log board} (Naut.), a board consisting of two parts shutting together like a book, with columns in which are entered the direction of the wind, course of the ship, etc., during each hour of the day and night. These entries are transferred to the log book. A folding slate is now used instead. {Log book}, or {Logbook} (Naut.), a book in which is entered the daily progress of a ship at sea, as indicated by the log, with notes on the weather and incidents of the voyage; the contents of the log board. {Log cabin}, {Log house}, a cabin or house made of logs. {Log canoe}, a canoe made by shaping and hollowing out a single log. {Log glass} (Naut.), a small sandglass used to time the running out of the log line. {Log line} (Naut.), a line or cord about a hundred and fifty fathoms long, fastened to the log-chip. See Note under 2d {Log}, n., 2. {Log perch} (Zo["o]l.), an ethiostomoid fish, or darter ({Percina caprodes}); -- called also {hogfish} and {rockfish}. {Log reel} (Naut.), the reel on which the log line is wound. {Log slate}. (Naut.) See {Log board} (above). {Rough log} (Naut.), a first draught of a record of the cruise or voyage. {Smooth log} (Naut.), a clean copy of the rough log. In the case of naval vessels this copy is forwarded to the proper officer of the government. {To heave the log} (Naut.), to cast the log-chip into the water; also, the whole process of ascertaining a vessel's speed by the log.
\Log\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Logged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Logging}.] (Naut.), To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run. --J. F. Cooper.
\Log\, v. i. 1. To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs. [U.S.] 2. To move to and fro; to rock. [Obs.]

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