Log

Symbol

 * 1)  logarithm
 * if $$x=b^y$$ then $$\log_{b}(x)=y$$

Synonyms

 * ln
 * lg

Related terms

 * lb, ld, lg, ln

Translations

 * Persian: لگاریتم

Noun

 * 1) The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.
 * They walked across the stream on a fallen log.
 * 1) Any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc.
 * 2)  A floating device, usually of wood, used in navigation to estimate the speed of a vessel through water.
 * 3) A logbook.
 * 4)  A blockhead, very dumb person.
 * 5)  A longboard.
 * 6) * 1999, Neal Miyake
 * I know he hadn’t surfed on a log much in his childhood
 * 1)  A rolled cake with filling.

Hyponyms

 * chip log, taffrail log
 * Swiss roll

Derived terms

 * backlog
 * flog the log


 * logbook
 * logger


 * sleep like a log

Verb

 * 1)  To cut trees into logs
 * 2)  To cut down (trees).
 * 3)  To travel at a specified speed, as ascertained by chip log
 * 4)  To cut down trees in an area, harvesting and transporting the logs as wood

Derived terms

 * logger

Related terms

 * logging

Noun

 * 1) A logbook, or journal of a vessel (or aircraft)'s progress
 * 2) * 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
 * The captain sat down to his log, and here is the beginning of the entry:...
 * 1) A chronological record of actions, performances, computer/network usage, etc.

Derived terms

 * weblog

Verb

 * 1)  To make, to add an entry (or more) in a log(book).
 * 2)  To travel (a distance) as shown in a logbook

Derived terms

 * log in

Related terms

 * logbook, weblog/blog, log out/log off, log in/log on

Adjectives for Log
smoldering; inanimate; unhewn; hollowed; naming; back; blazing; hickory; yule; drunken; senseless; floating; ostensible; patent; moldered.

Verbs for Log
batter with—; bear—; char—; fire—; hew —; ignite—; kindle—; poke—; stir—; toast over—; vault—; —chills; —flames; —fuels; —glows; —seethes; —smokes; —smoulders.

Thesaurus
Domesday Book, Mach meter, 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, 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, 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

Etymology 1
logge:, of unknown origin. That it descends from lág: is widely doubted on phonological grounds; an alternative is sound expression of the notion of something massive.

Etymology 2
From logbook, itself from log (above) + book

Noun

 * Czech:
 * Dutch: bootstam, bootstronk
 * Finnish:, puunrunko
 * German: Log
 * Italian: tronco


 * Japanese: 丸太
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgonn
 * Spanish: leño
 * Swahili:, gogo


 * Dutch: houtblok
 * Finnish:
 * Italian: tronchetto
 * Japanese:


 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgonn
 * Spanish: leño
 * Swahili:, gogo


 * Finnish:
 * Italian: solcometro


 * Japanese: 測程儀
 * Spanish: registro


 * Arabic:
 * Chinese: 木头 (mùtou)
 * Estonian: palk
 * French:, , , ,
 * German: Holzklotz,
 * Hebrew: בול עץ (bul etz)
 * Hungarian: fatönk
 * Icelandic: trjádrumbur, drumbur
 * Korean: 통나무 (tongnamu)
 * Latvian: baļķis


 * Persian: ثبت کردن وقایع, کنده, قطعه ایازدرخت که اره نشده, سرعت سنجکشتی, کارنامه, صورت عملیات, سفرنامه کشتی, گزارش سفرنامه کشتی, گزارش سفرهواپیما, گزارش روزانه عملیات هیئت یاعملیات موتوریاماشین وغیره, کندن کنده درخت, درسفرنامه واردکردن
 * Portuguese:, lenha,
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * Dutch: houthakken
 * Finnish: hakata, kaataa puita
 * French: ,
 * Japanese: 伐採


 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: fälla (träd)

Noun

 * Dutch: logboek
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Japanese: 日誌


 * Polish: dziennik pokładowy
 * Portuguese: diário de bordo, de vôo
 * Spanish: libro de registro


 * Finnish:


 * Japanese: 記録, ログ


 * Estonian: logiraamat, logi
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Latvian: žurnāls
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish: logg, loggbok

Verb

 * Finnish:
 * French: un évènement dans un journal,  un évènement (une ligne, une information) dans un journal
 * Japanese: 記録する


 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Adjective

 * 1) lumbering, inert, slow in movement; immobile
 * 2) (originally) plumb, (too) heavy in built ande/or weight
 * 3) cumbersome, hard to move or change
 * 4) dull, uninspired

Derived terms

 * logheid
 * logte
 * loggat
 * loggroot (adjective)
 * logzwaar (adjective)
 * verloggen

Noun

 * 1) A lie, violation of the truth

Derived terms

 * logbaar
 * onlogbaar

Noun

 * 1)  An alternative form of loch

Derived terms

 * jammerlog
 * loggat
 * schutlog

Noun

 * 1) A chip log, instrument to measure a vessel's speed

Synonyms

 * (derivation) logplankje

Derived terms

 * (by type) leklog, handlog, patentlog
 * logboek (perhaps from English logbook)
 * loggen
 * logglas
 * loggekas
 * loglijn, loglijnknoop
 * logmerk
 * logrol
 * logschuitje
 * logtafel

Verb

 * 1) imperative and singular present imperfect forms of loggen (see above)

Etymology 1
Presumably Germanic, cognates may include English log, lag, Middle Low German luggich 'slow'

Etymology 2
Germanic: cognate with liegen 'to (tell a) lie', German lügen

Etymology 3
Germanic: from equivalent German Loch 'hole, opening, cavity'

Etymology 4
Germanic: from English log (see above), sense (and short for) chip log

Noun

 * 1) A place, stead
 * on his log: in his place; instead of him.

Related terms

 * licgan
 * lecgan


 * leġer
 * ġeliġer

Etymology 1
, from. Cognate with Old Frisian loch:, Old High German luog:. The Indo-European root is also the source of Greek λέκτρον:, Latin lectus:, Celtic *leg- (Old Irish lige:, Irish luighe:), Slavic *ležati (Russian лежать:).

Etymology 2
Inflected forms.

Noun
lóg


 * 1) A grove
 * 2) A small forest

Noun

 * 1) eye

Etymology
Compound of French le and German Auge