Word: log Word 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. Phonetic: lɒɡ Listen:
a part of the trunk or a large branch of a tree that has fallen or been cut off. Example: she tripped over a fallen log
an official record of events during the voyage of a ship or aircraft. Example: a ship's log
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. Example: errors late in the game cost them a shot at the log of wood
enter (an incident or fact) in the log of a ship or aircraft or in another systematic record. Example: the incident has to be logged
cut down (an area of forest) in order to exploit the timber commercially. Example: there are plans to log 250,000 hectares of virgin rainforest
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