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log English

Meaning log meaning

What does log mean?
Definitions in simple English

log Noun

— A log is a piece of wood that is long and round that has been cut off a tree. We need another log to make a nice big fire. — A log is a place where people or computer programs write things when they happen, and they write the date (and maybe the time) every time they write something. We need to keep a log of everyone going into and out of this building. — In mathematics, a log is a logarithm.

log Verb

— When people log a forest, they cut down the trees to make logs. This was a forest here, but it was logged a few years ago. — When someone logs something, they write it in a log book. Make sure you log that so we'll remember what time it happened.

log

— noun a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches — verb enter into a log, as on ships and planes — verb (= lumber) cut lumber, as in woods and forests — noun a written record of messages sent or received they kept a log of all transmission by the radio station an email log — noun a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane) — noun 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 — noun (= logarithm) the exponent required to produce a given number

Synonyms log synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as log?

log English » English

block journal timber register logbook logarithm beam wood tree trunk fallen tree diary lumber plank trunk tree record block of wood billet write down stump stock piece of wood list inventory firewood chronicle bole veeder counter thunderbolt supply stockpile stick reserve registration recording pole piece log file fire fess document book board write off woods well log upset unsawn timber undercarriage twig

Topics log topics

What do people use log to talk about?
Work and occupation Occupation Working with wood

Lumbering
Universe, creation Plant

Parts of a plant
Daily life Fire

Tend a fire
Work and occupation Working with buildings Building

Types of houses
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with wood

Conjugation log conjugation

How do you conjugate log?

log · verb

Examples log examples

How do I use log in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The writer is living in a log cabin.
In Canada, there are many areas where it is illegal to log trees.
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in a log cabin in Kentucky.
Who was the last person to log on to the computer?
Tom tossed another log on the fire.
Tom put another log on the fire.
He slept like a log.
Tom sleeps like a log. The world could end, and he wouldn't notice.
Tom sat down on the log and took off his boots.
Tom sat on a log.
Thales believed the Earth was flat and floated on water like a log.
Did you log in?
Tom is sleeping like a log.
Tom threw another log on the fire.
I slept like a log.
Throw another log on the fire, will you?
There are many log cabins in these mountains.
Put another log on the fire.
There's a complete record of the storm in the ship's log.
Where's the log house?
Put another log in the fireplace.

Movie subtitles

I was wondering if I could see the visitors log from when I was in a coma.
The note sounded so mysterious, well, it seemed like a log.
Once that's loose, there's nothing to keep the log from coming down.
He shook those men off that log like they were flies.
Get up on that log.
Get up on the log.
Lieutenant Bligh, I have your log here before me.
Yes. And yet Mr Bligh, in your own log, you admit that this rather unorthodox form of exercise led to grave discontent.
I want my opinion in the log, sir.
I want my opinion in the log!
You take charge of my log. and slowly make your way out to the launch.
You log on a bump.
I'll take a n iron weight, about three pounds, or a log.
We could do with another log on the fire.
That? Get up on the log.
She fell like a log.
Well, don't stand there like a bump on a log. Go along and tell her.
You slept like a log.
How does a log sleep?
I'll put on another log.
I must have been tired. I slept like a log.
Yes, sir. Connie, will you keep the ship's log, please?
There's a log fire burning in the grate.
This isn't a dog, he's a bump on a log!
Look here. You touch that trip line. it'll pull that trigger free. Once that's loose, there's nothing to keep the log from coming down.
Huh? - Get up on the log.
Not me, I sleep like a log.
I must be sleeping like a log.
I slept like a log.
It's just as easy as falling off a log.
A log came up to the surface.
The log fell.
Under the log.
If you throw in a log it just floats around.
I keep no log on the Nautilus, and I was frankly curious to read your account of the giant squid.

News and current affairs

Other countries log far fewer viewing hours.
If you truly fear a global economic meltdown, you should stock up on guns, canned food, and other commodities that you can actually use in your log cabin.
Other countries log far fewer viewing hours. In Scandinavia, for example, time spent watching TV is roughly half the US average.
They believe that responding to calls for stimulus would simply lead to more such calls, creating a log-rolling, pork-barrel dynamic in which any hope for fiscal consolidation is ruled out.
They should blog, tweet, write editorials and press releases, as well as log and document cases of police abuse (and the abusers).
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