log
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1. log - Noun
2. log - Verb
Meaning
A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills.
A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.
An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.
Hence: The record of the rate of ship's speed or of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book.
A record and tabulated statement of the work done by an engine, as of a steamship, of the coal consumed, and of other items relating to the performance of machinery during a given time.
A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run.
To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs.
To move to and fro; to rock.
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There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive log past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
A crowd is like a smoldering log which can spark into a flame at any time.
The nile has no resting place it wanderes around carrying a log.
No matter how long a log floats on the river, it will never be a crocodile.