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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LOG, n.
1. A bulky piece or stick of timer unhewed. Pine logs are floated down rivers in America, and stopped at saw-mills. A piece of timber when hewed or squared, is not called a log, unless perhaps in constructing log-huts.
2. In navigation, a machine for measuring the rate of a ship's velocity through the water. The common log is a piece of board, forming the quadrant of a circle of about six inches radius, balanced by a small plate of lead nailed on the circular part, so as to swim perpendicular.
3. [Heb.] A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing, according to some authors, three quarters of a pint; according to others, five sixths of a pint. According to Arbuthnot, it was the seventy second part of the bath or ephab, and the twelfth part of a hin.
LOG, v.i. To move to and fro. [Not used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches
2: the exponent required to produce a given number [syn: logarithm, log]
3: a written record of messages sent or received; "they kept a log of all transmission by the radio station"; "an email log"
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 v
1: enter into a log, as on ships and planes
2: cut lumber, as in woods and forests [syn: log, lumber]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English logge Date: 14th century 1. a usually bulky piece or length of a cut or fallen tree; especially a length of a tree trunk ready for sawing and over six feet (1.8 meters) long 2. an apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water that consists of a block fastened to a line and run out from a reel 3. a. the record of the rate of a ship's speed or of her daily progress; also the full nautical record of a ship's voyage b. the full record of a flight by an aircraft 4. a record of performance, events, or day-to-day activities <a computer log> II. verb (logged; logging) Date: 1699 transitive verb 1. a. to cut (trees) for lumber b. to clear (land) of trees in lumbering — often used with off 2. to make a note or record of ; enter details of or about in a log 3. a. to move (an indicated distance) or attain (an indicated speed) as noted in a log b. (1) to sail a ship or fly an airplane for (an indicated distance or period of time) (2) to have (an indicated record) to one's credit ; achieve intransitive verb lumber III,1 III. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: by shortening Date: 1631 logarithm IV. abbreviation logic

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. & v. --n. 1 an unhewn piece of a felled tree, or a similar rough mass of wood, esp. cut for firewood. 2 a a float attached to a line wound on a reel for gauging the speed of a ship. b any other apparatus for the same purpose. 3 a record of events occurring during and affecting the voyage of a ship or aircraft (including the rate of a ship's progress shown by a log: see sense 2). 4 any systematic record of things done, experienced, etc. 5 = LOGBOOK. --v.tr. (logged, logging) 1 a enter (the distance made or other details) in a ship's logbook. b enter details about (a person or event) in a logbook. c (of a ship) achieve (a certain distance). 2 a enter (information) in a regular record. b attain (a cumulative total of time etc. recorded in this way) (logged 50 hours on the computer). 3 cut into logs. Phrases and idioms: like a log 1 in a helpless or stunned state (fell like a log under the left hook). 2 without stirring (slept like a log). log cabin a hut built of logs. log in = log on. log-jam 1 a crowded mass of logs in a river. 2 a deadlock. log-line a line to which a ship's log (see sense 2 a. of n.) is attached. log on (or off) go through the procedures to begin (or conclude) use of a computer system. Etymology: ME: orig. unkn. 2. n. a logarithm (esp. prefixed to a number or algebraic symbol whose logarithm is to be indicated). Etymology: abbr.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Log Log, n. [Heb. l[=o]g.] A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills. --W. H. Ward.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Log Log, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Logged; p. pr. & vb. n. Logging.] (Naut.), To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run. --J. F. Cooper.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Log Log, v. i. 1. To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs. [U.S.] 2. To move to and fro; to rock. [Obs.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Log Log, n. [Icel. l[=a]g a felled tree, log; akin to E. lie. See Lie to lie prostrate.] 1. A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing. 2. [Prob. the same word as in sense 1; cf. LG. log, lock, Dan. log, Sw. logg.] (Naut.) An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water. Note: The common log consists of the log-chip, or logship, often exclusively called the log, and the log line, the former being commonly a thin wooden quadrant of five or six inches radius, loaded with lead on the arc to make it float with the point up. It is attached to the log line by cords from each corner. This line is divided into equal spaces, called knots, each bearing the same proportion to a mile that half a minute does to an hour. The line is wound on a reel which is so held as to let it run off freely. When the log is thrown, the log-chip is kept by the water from being drawn forward, and the speed of the ship is shown by the number of knots run out in half a minute. There are improved logs, consisting of a piece of mechanism which, being towed astern, shows the distance actually gone through by the ship, by means of the revolutions of a fly, which are registered on a dial plate. 3. Hence: The record of the rate of ship's speed or of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book. 4. A record and tabulated statement of the work done by an engine, as of a steamship, of the coal consumed, and of other items relating to the performance of machinery during a given time. 5. (Mining) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave. Log board (Naut.), a board consisting of two parts shutting together like a book, with columns in which are entered the direction of the wind, course of the ship, etc., during each hour of the day and night. These entries are transferred to the log book. A folding slate is now used instead. Log book, or Logbook (Naut.), a book in which is entered the daily progress of a ship at sea, as indicated by the log, with notes on the weather and incidents of the voyage; the contents of the log board. Log cabin, Log house, a cabin or house made of logs. Log canoe, a canoe made by shaping and hollowing out a single log.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(logs, logging, logged) 1. A log is a piece of a thick branch or of the trunk of a tree that has been cut so that it can be used for fuel or for making things. He dumped the logs on the big stone hearth. ...the original log cabin where Lincoln was born. N-COUNT: oft N n 2. A log is an official written account of what happens each day, for example on board a ship. The family made an official complaint to a ship's officer, which was recorded in the log. N-COUNT 3. If you log an event or fact, you record it officially in writing or on a computer. Details of the crime are then logged in the computer. = record VERB: V n 4. see also logging

Easton's Bible Dictionary

the smallest measure for liquids used by the Hebrews (Lev. 14:10, 12, 15, 21, 24), called in the Vulgate sextarius. It is the Hebrew unit of measure of capacity, and is equal to the contents of six ordinary hen's eggs=the twelfth part of a him, or nearly a pint.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

log, logh, "deepened," "hollowed out" (Le 14:10-24)): The smallest liquid or dry measure of the Hebrews, equal to about 1 pint.

See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

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