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phone
Noun
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A phone is a tool for speaking to people who are far away.
Can I borrow your phone? I need to call my friend.
The phones ringing. Can you answer it?
"Goodbye!" she said, and put the phone down.
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A phone is a smartphone.
This classroom does not allow students to use their phones during class.
phone
Verb
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If you contact somebody using a phone, you phone them.
Hey, I'll phone you tonight and we can decide what to do.
I phoned up my friend and asked her to come over at 8:00.
log
Noun
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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.
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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.
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In mathematics, a log is a logarithm.
log
Verb
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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.
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When someone logs something, they write it in a log book.
Make sure you log that so we'll remember what time it happened.