log
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
hobbies
lifestyle
mining
nautical
sports
surfing
transport
Etymology: From Middle English logge, logg (first recorded in Anglo-Latin as loggum), of uncertain origin, but probably from Old Norse lóg, lág (“felled tree, log”), derived from Old Norse liggja (“to lie”). If so, then cognate with Norwegian låg (“fallen tree”), Dutch loog (“wood, timber, lumber”).
Alternatively, directly from Norwegian låg (“fallen tree”), which could have been borrowed through the Norwegian timber trade. However the Old Norse/Middle Norwegian vowel is long while Middle English vowel is short.
Inflected forms:
form: logs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: logg
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: logge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: logs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: logging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: logged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: logged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: logg
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: logge
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.
pos: noun
examples: They walked across the stream on a fallen log.
gloss: Any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A unit of length equivalent to 16 feet, used for measuring timber, especially the trunk of a tree.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything shaped like a log; a cylinder.
pos: noun
examples: […] it was a thing of sinuous durability, wound around the spirit like a tapeworm around a log of shit.
Dip both sides in the sauce on the plate and then arrange a log of cheese filling down the middle of the tortilla.
gloss: A floating device, usually of wood, used in navigation to estimate the speed of a vessel through water.
pos: noun
examples: 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 three, the quotient is the Leagues run since the former Noon, and according to custom the Log is thrown every two hours, and I never knew the course nearer expressed on the Log-board, then to half a point of the Compass.
gloss: A blockhead; a very stupid person.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: A heavy longboard.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 1999, Neal Miyake https://web.archive.org/web/20060530122555/http://www.iav.com/~sponge/sesh/new2/sesh213.htm
I know he hadn’t surfed on a log much in his childhood
gloss: A rolled cake with filling.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of feces, especially a relatively long, solid one, resembling a tree log.
pos: noun
tags: vulgar
gloss: A penis.
pos: noun
tags: vulgar
gloss: To cut trees into logs.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cut down (trees).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To cut down trees in an area, harvesting and transporting the logs as wood.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: ants on a log
as easy as rolling off a log
backlog
Christmas log
drop a log
Dutchman's log
easy as falling off a log
easy as rolling off a log
firelog
flog the log
footlog
hand log
heave the log
lick log
like a bump on a log
like falling off a log
like rolling off a log
log boat
logboat
log book
log-burner
log burner
log cabin
log car
log chip
log dog
log drive
log flume
logget
loggish
log-glass
loggy
loghouse
log jam
logjam
loglet
logmaker
logman
logperch
log reel
log ride
logrolling
logrunner
log scaler
log splitter
log washer
logway
logwood
moorlog
murder log
nurse log
patent log
putlog
sawlog
sleep like a log
stoplog
logboard
logger
loglike
logging
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