log

See also: lóg, lög, løg, log., -log, and løg-
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Translingual

Symbol

log

  1. (mathematics) logarithm
    if then

Hyponyms

  • (logarithm): (with base e) ln, (with base 10) lg, (with base 2) lb

Usage notes

If not specified, the assumed base of the logarithm is either 10 or e, depending on context.

Translations

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /lɒɡ/
  • Rhymes: -ɒɡ
  • (US) IPA(key): /lɑɡ/, /lɔɡ/
  • Audio (US)(file)

Etymology 1

From Middle English logge, logg, from Old Norse lóg, lág (“a felled tree; log”), from liggja (“to lie”). Cognate with Norwegian låg (“fallen tree”), Swedish dialectal låga, Swedish logg (“log”).

Alternatively, English log is perhaps a borrowing from Norwegian låg (“fallen tree”) or Swedish dialectal låga, borrowed through the Norwegian timber trade.[1]; or from the sound expression of the notion of something massive.

Noun

log (plural logs)

  1. The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.
    They walked across the stream on a fallen log.
  2. Any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc.
    • 1995: New American Standard Bible: Matthew 7, 3 – 5
      Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, "Let me take the speck out of your eye," and behold, the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
  3. Anything shaped like a log; a cylinder.
    • 1999, Glen Duncan, Hope
      […] it was a thing of sinuous durability, wound around the spirit like a tapeworm around a log of shit.
    • 2011, Edward Espe Brown, The Complete Tassajara Cookbook
      Dip both sides in the sauce on the plate and then arrange a log of cheese filling down the middle of the tortilla.
  4. (nautical) A floating device, usually of wood, used in navigation to estimate the speed of a vessel through water.
  5. A logbook.
  6. (figuratively) A blockhead; a very stupid person.
  7. (surfing slang) A longboard.
    • 1999, Neal Miyake
      I know he hadn’t surfed on a log much in his childhood
  8. (figuratively) A rolled cake with filling.
  9. (mining) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
  10. (vulgar) A piece of feces.
Synonyms
  • (logbook):
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb

log (third-person singular simple present logs, present participle logging, simple past and past participle logged)

  1. (transitive) To cut trees into logs.
  2. (transitive) To cut down (trees).
    • 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
      Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
  3. (transitive) To travel at a specified speed, as ascertained by chip log.
  4. (intransitive) To cut down trees in an area, harvesting and transporting the logs as wood.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From logbook, itself from log (above) + book, from a wooden float (chip log, or simply log) used to measure speed.

Noun

log (plural logs)

  1. A logbook, or journal of a vessel (or aircraft)'s progress
  2. A chronological record of actions, performances, computer/network usage, etc.
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb

log (third-person singular simple present logs, present participle logging, simple past and past participle logged)

  1. (transitive) To make, to add an entry (or more) in a log or logbook.
    to log the miles travelled by a ship
  2. (transitive) To travel (a distance) as shown in a logbook
Derived terms
Translations
make an entry in a log

Etymology 3

Verb

log (third-person singular simple present logs, present participle logging, simple past and past participle logged)

  1. (obsolete) To move to and fro; to rock.

Etymology 4

From Hebrew לֹג‎.

Noun

log (plural logs)

  1. (historical units of measure) A Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about ⅓ L).
    • Bible (KJV), Leviticus 14:10:
      ...and one log of oil...
    • 1902, Jewish Encyclopedia, s.v. "Weights and Measures":
      In the Hebrew system the log (Lev. xiv. 10) corresponds to the mina. Since the Hellenistic writers equate the log with the Græco-Roman sextarius, whatever these writers say on the relation of the sextarius to other measures applies also to the relation of these measures to the log. The log and the sextarius, however, are not equal in capacity. The sextarius is estimated at .547 liter, while there is no reason to regard the log as larger than the Babylonian mina, especially as other references of the Greek metrologists support the assumption that the log was equal to the mina. The fact that in the Old Testament the log is mentioned only as a fluid measure may be merely accidental, for the dry measures, which are distinguished in all other cases from the liquid measures, also have the log as their unit. The corresponding dry measure may, however, have been known under a different name.
Meronyms

Etymology 5

From logarithm.

Noun

log (plural logs)

  1. logarithm.
    To multiply two numbers, add their logs.
Derived terms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for log in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

References

  1. ↑ Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], →ISBN), p. 607.

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *lēga, from Proto-Indo-European *legh- (“to put down, lie down”). Compare Old Frisian lōch, Dutch oorlog (“war”), Middle High German urlage (“fate, battle”), Old English log (“place”), Old Norse løgi (“tranquillity”), Greek λόχος (lóchos, “confinement”), Tocharian A lake, Tocharian B leke (“lair”), Old Irish lige (“bad, grave”).

Noun

log m (indefinite plural logje, definite singular logu, definite plural logët)

  1. battlefield, ground (where warriors or men gather for council)
  2. level patch (of ground)

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɔx/
  • Rhymes: -ɔx

Etymology 1

Cognates may include English log, lag, Middle High German luggich (“slow”).

Adjective

log (comparative logger, superlative logst)

  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
Inflection
Inflection of log
uninflected log
inflected logge
comparative logger
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial logloggerhet logst
het logste
indefinite m./f. sing. loggeloggerelogste
n. sing. logloggerlogste
plural loggeloggerelogste
definite loggeloggerelogste
partitive logsloggers—
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Cognate with liegen (“to (tell a) lie”), German lügen.

Noun

log n (plural loggen, diminutive logje n)

  1. A lie, violation of the truth
Derived terms
  • logbaar
  • onlogbaar

Etymology 3

Borrowed from German Loch (“hole, opening, cavity”).

Noun

log n (plural loggen)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of loch
Derived terms

Etymology 4

From English log (see above), sense (and short for) chip log.

Noun

log m (plural loggen, diminutive logje n)

  1. A chip log, instrument to measure a vessel's speed
Synonyms
  • (derivation): logplankje n
Derived terms

Etymology 5

From logboek.

Noun

log n (plural loggen, diminutive logje n)

  1. logbook
  2. (computing) log

Etymology 6

Noun

log n, m (plural logs, diminutive logje n)

  1. (Internet) weblog
    Synonym: blog

German

Verb

log

  1. First-person singular preterite of lügen.
  2. Third-person singular preterite of lügen.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish loc (“place; hollow, pit, ditch; burial place, grave”), possibly from Latin locus.

Noun

log m, f (genitive singular loig or loige, nominative plural loig)

  1. (literary) place
  2. hollow

Declension

Alternative declension

Derived terms

  • "log" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “1 loc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

log

  1. (non-standard since 1917) past tense of le

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /loːx/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *lōgą, from Proto-Indo-European *legh-. Cognate with Old Frisian lōch, Old High German luog. The Indo-European root is also the source of Greek λέκτρον (léktron), Latin lectus (“bed”), Albanian log (“place for men, gathering”), Proto-Celtic *leg- (Old Irish lige, Irish luighe), Proto-Slavic *ležati (Russian лежа́ть (ležátʹ)).

Noun

lōg n

  1. a place, stead
    on his log ― in his place; instead of him

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Verb

lōg

  1. first-person singular preterite of lēan
  2. third-person singular preterite of lēan

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From lèžati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lôːɡ/

Noun

lȏg m (Cyrillic spelling ло̑г)

  1. (archaic) bed

Declension

References

  • “log” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlóːk/
  • Tonal orthography: lọ̑g

Noun

lóg m inan (genitive lóga, nominative plural lógi)

  1. grove
  2. small forest

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Swedish

Verb

log

  1. past tense of le.

Volapük

Etymology

Compound of French le and German Auge.

Noun

log (plural logs)

  1. (anatomy) eye

Declension

Derived terms

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