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log

Definitions


[lɒɡ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a part of the trunk or a large branch of a tree that has fallen or been cut off
(e.g: she tripped over a fallen log)

- an official record of events during the voyage of a ship or aircraft
(e.g: 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
(e.g: errors late in the game cost them a shot at the log of wood)


Phrases:
- as easy as falling off a log

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘bulky mass of wood’): of unknown origin; perhaps symbolic of the notion of heaviness. log 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


[lɒɡ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- enter (an incident or fact) in the log of a ship or aircraft or in another systematic record
(e.g: the incident has to be logged)

- cut down (an area of forest) in order to exploit the timber commercially
(e.g: there are plans to log 250,000 hectares of virgin rainforest)


Phrases:
- as easy as falling off a log

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘bulky mass of wood’): of unknown origin; perhaps symbolic of the notion of heaviness. log 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


[lɒɡ], (Noun)

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