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

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Translingual

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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 2, 10, or e, depending on context. Base e is most common in professional mathematics, while base 10 is the default for many calculators and in secondary school pedagogy. Base 2 is frequently used in theoretical computer science but rare outside that field.

Translations

English

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɒɡ, -ɔːɡ

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]

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. A unit of length equivalent to 16 feet, used for measuring timber, especially the trunk of a tree.
  4. 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.
  5. (nautical) A floating device, usually of wood, used in navigation to estimate the speed of a vessel through water.
  6. (figuratively) A blockhead; a very stupid person.
  7. (surfing slang) A longboard.
    • 1999, Neal Miyake [1]
      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.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from log (noun)
Translations
very dumb person — see blockhead
surfing: longboard — see longboard
rolled cake — see Swiss roll
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Verb

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  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. (intransitive) To cut down trees in an area, harvesting and transporting the logs as wood.
Synonyms
  • (logbook):
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.
  3. (computer science) Specifically, an append-only sequence of records written to file.
Derived terms
Translations
logbook — see logbook
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Verb

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  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
  3. (transitive) To travel at a specified speed, as ascertained by chip log.
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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

References

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Anagrams

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”). Alternatively derived from Proto-Slavic *lǫgъ, compare Serbo-Croatian lug, Bulgarian лъг (lǎg).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

log m (plural logje, definite logu, definite plural logjet)

  1. field (in a forest); flat ground, area
  2. battlefield

References

  1. ^ Omari, Anila (2012) “log”, in Marrëdhëniet Gjuhësore Shqiptaro-Serbe, Tirana, Albania: Krishtalina KH, page 185
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “log”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 230

Dutch

Pronunciation

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
Declension of log
uninflected log
inflected logge
comparative logger
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial log logger het logst
het logste
indefinite m./f. sing. logge loggere logste
n. sing. log logger logste
plural logge loggere logste
definite logge loggere logste
partitive logs loggers —
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

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
Derived terms

Etymology 5

From logboek.

Noun

log n (plural loggen, diminutive logje n)

  1. logbook
  2. (computing) log

Etymology 6

Noun

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

  1. (Internet) weblog
    Synonym: blog

German

Verb

log

  1. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular preterite of lügen.
  2. (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular preterite of lügen.

Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

  1. (literary) place
  2. hollow

Declension

Declension of log

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative log loig
Vocative a loig a loga
Genitive loig log
Dative log loig

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an log na loig
Genitive an loig na log
Dative leis an log

don log

leis na loig

Alternative declension
Declension of log

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative log loga
Vocative a log a loga
Genitive loige log
Dative log loga

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an log na loga
Genitive na loige na log
Dative leis an log

don log

leis na loga

Derived terms

Further reading

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

log

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

Old English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *lōgą (“site, situation, camp”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to be situated, lie”). Cognate with Old Frisian lōch (“place, locality”), Old High German luog (“cave, den, cubicle”), Old Norse lóg (“place”). 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 lōg ― in his place; instead of him
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Middle English: loȝ, loogh, lough

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

Noun

lȏg m (Cyrillic spelling ло̑г)

  1. (archaic) bed

Declension

Declension of log
singular plural
nominative log logovi
genitive loga logova
dative logu logovima
accusative log logove
vocative logu logove
locative logu logovima
instrumental logom logovima

References

  • “log” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

Pronunciation

Noun

lọ̑g m inan

  1. grove
  2. small forest

Inflection

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Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing. lóg
gen. sing. lóga
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		lóg lóga lógi
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		lóga lógov lógov
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		lógu lógoma lógom
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		lóg lóga lóge
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		lógu lógih lógih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		lógom lógoma lógi

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Further reading

  • “log”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Verb

log

  1. (deprecated template usage) past tense of le.

Anagrams

Volapük

Etymology

Compound of French le and German Auge.

Noun

log (nominative plural logs)

  1. (anatomy) eye

Declension

declension of log
singular plural
nominative log logs
genitive loga logas
dative loge loges
accusative logi logis
vocative 1 o log! o logs!
predicative 2 logu logus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

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