LOG (logged, logging)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected forms: logged    , logging   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does log mean? 

• LOG (noun)
  The noun LOG has 5 senses:

1. a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches

2. the exponent required to produce a given number

3. a written record of messages sent or received

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

  Familiarity information: LOG used as a noun is common.

• LOG (verb)
  The verb LOG has 2 senses:

1. enter into a log, as on ships and planes

2. cut lumber, as in woods and forests

  Familiarity information: LOG used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("log" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "log"):

nurse log (a large decomposing tree trunk that has fallen, usually in a forest; the decaying wood provides moisture and nutrients for a variety of insects and plants)

saw log (log large enough to be sawed into boards)

Derivation:

log (cut lumber, as in woods and forests)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The exponent required to produce a given number

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

log; logarithm

Hypernyms ("log" is a kind of...):

exponent; index; power (a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "log"):

common logarithm (a logarithm to the base 10)

Napierian logarithm; natural logarithm (a logarithm to the base e)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A written record of messages sent or received

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

an email log

Hypernyms ("log" is a kind of...):

written account; written record (a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("log" is a kind of...):

written account; written record (a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events)

Domain category:

aeroplane; airplane; plane (an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets)

ship (a vessel that carries passengers or freight)

Derivation:

log (enter into a log, as on ships and planes)

Sense 5

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("log" is a kind of...):

measuring device; measuring instrument; measuring system (instrument that shows the extent or amount or quantity or degree of something)

Meronyms (parts of "log"):

log line (a knotted cord that runs out from a reel to a piece of wood that is attached to it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "log"):

harpoon log (a cylindrical log with a device that registers distance)

patent log; screw log; taffrail log (a cigar-shaped log with rotary fins that measure the ship's speed)

Holonyms ("log" is a part of...):

ship (a vessel that carries passengers or freight)

• LOG (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they log    ... he / she / it logs   
Past simple: logged   
Past participle: logged   
-ing form: logging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enter into a log, as on ships and planes

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "log" is one way to...):

enter; put down; record (make a record of; set down in permanent form)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Also:

log up (record a distance travelled; on planes and cars)

Derivation:

log (a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cut lumber, as in woods and forests

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

log; lumber

Hypernyms (to "log" is one way to...):

cut down; drop; fell; strike down (cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

log (a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches)

logger (a person who fells trees)

logging (the work of cutting down trees for timber)

 Context examples 

He sat down ponderingly on the log, leaving Madge standing.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The log cabins he had known were replaced by towering buildings.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A log of study drugs kept by an investigator running a clinical trial.

(DAR, NCI Dictionary)

Charles sat down on a log to rest.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

But the raft was nearly done, and after the Tin Woodman had cut a few more logs and fastened them together with wooden pins, they were ready to start.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The log base E value of argument X.

(LogE, NCI Thesaurus)

The log base 2 value of argument X.

(Log2, NCI Thesaurus)

And then, as we all slunk back to our places, Gray, he said, I'll put your name in the log; you've stood by your duty like a seaman.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Other ape-men in the trees above us hurled down stones and logs of wood, occasionally dropping bodily on to our ranks and fighting furiously until they were felled.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So he laid himself down; but they managed so clumsily, that the log of wood fell in and was carried away by the stream.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)