log

The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.

• They walked across the stream on a fallen log.

Any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc.

• 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 hypocrit

A unit of length equivalent to 16 feet, used for measuring timber, especially the trunk of a tree.

Any cylinder; anything shaped like a tree log, particularlyfiguratively

• 3. An apparatus for cutting a log of paper or the like into a plurality of sections of predetermined length[.]
• Dip both sides in the sauce on the plate and then arrange a log of cheese filling down the middle of the tortilla.

Any cylinder; anything shaped like a tree log; A rolled cake with filling.figuratively

Any cylinder; anything shaped like a tree log; A solid and long piece of feces.figurativelyvulgar

Any cylinder; anything shaped like a tree log; The penis.figurativelyvulgar

A floating device, usually of wood, used in navigation to estimate the speed of a vessel through water.

• 1659, Navigation by the Mariners Plain Scale New Plain'd, by John Collins Every Noon the Master and his Mates take the reckoning off the Log-board, and double the Knots run, and then divide the Product, which is the number of Miles run by t

A blockhead; a very stupid person.figuratively

A heavy longboard.slang

• I know [Buddy] hadn't surfed on a log much in his childhood, but he must've been watching them Makaha rippah's.

To cut trees into logs.transitive

To cut down (trees).transitive

• 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 l

To cut down trees in an area, harvesting and transporting the logs as wood.intransitive

A logbook, or journal of a vessel's (or aircraft's) progress.

• The captain sat down to his log, and here is the beginning of the entry:...

A chronological record of actions, performances, computer/network usage, etc.

Specifically, an append-only sequential record of events written to a file, display, or other data stream.

Logins, stolen login data.slang

• Swing me the log, I'm cashing it Tz got beef, you know that I'm backing it

To make, to add an entry (or more) in a log or logbook.transitive

• to log the miles travelled by a ship

To travel (a distance) as shown in a logbook.transitive

To travel at a specified speed, as ascertained by a chip log.transitive

To log out; to disconnect from an online video game.transitive

• You only won that game because your last opponent logged. That's no fair!

To move to and fro; to rock.obsolete

A Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about ¹⁄₃ liter).historical

• 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

Synonym of logarithm.

• To multiply two numbers, add their logs.

A difference of one in the logarithm, usually in base 10; an order of magnitude.

• During the first 24 hr, however, titers of the lightly piliated organisms in the kidney increased by 4 logs, whereas the heavily piliated P. mirabilis were virtually all eliminated.