log
noun
[ lɒɡ ]
• a part of the trunk or a large branch of a tree that has fallen or been cut off.
• "she tripped over a fallen log"
• an official record of events during the voyage of a ship or aircraft.
• "a ship's log"
Similar:
record,
register,
logbook,
journal,
diary,
chronicle,
daybook,
record book,
ledger,
chart,
account,
tally,
minutes,
write-up,
• an apparatus for determining the speed of a ship, originally one consisting of a float attached to a knotted line that is wound on a reel, the distance run out in a certain time being used as an estimate of the vessel's speed.
• the Ranfurly Shield, an interprovincial rugby union trophy competed for annually in New Zealand.
• "errors late in the game cost them a shot at the log of wood"
log
verb
• enter (an incident or fact) in the log of a ship or aircraft or in another systematic record.
• "the incident has to be logged"
Similar:
register,
record,
make a note of,
note down,
write down,
jot down,
book down,
set down,
put down,
put in writing,
enter,
file,
minute,
chart,
tabulate,
catalogue,
• cut down (an area of forest) in order to exploit the timber commercially.
• "there are plans to log 250,000 hectares of virgin rainforest"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘bulky mass of wood’): of unknown origin; perhaps symbolic of the notion of heaviness. log1 (sense 3 of the noun) originally denoted a thin quadrant of wood loaded to float upright in the water, whence ‘ship's journal’ in which information derived from this device was recorded.
log
noun
• short for logarithm.
• "log values"
logarithm
noun
• a quantity representing the power to which a fixed number (the base) must be raised to produce a given number.
• "proportional to the logarithm to the base 10 of the concentration"
Origin:
early 17th century: from modern Latin logarithmus, from Greek logos ‘reckoning, ratio’ + arithmos ‘number’.
-logue
combining form
• denoting discourse of a specified type.
• "dialogue"
• denoting compilation.
• "catalogue"
• equivalent to -logist.
Origin:
from French -logue, from Greek -logos, -logon .
