log
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- noun
- /lɔg/
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- We should think about buying something up here, like some log cabin in the woods near a lake.
- a log cabin
- a pile of logs
- floating logs
We want just one log on each side, Max.
- We want just one log on each side, Max.
- You know, I got a little log house built by the Amish.
- But it's like hand sawing through a log, right?
- And then we, like, stacked it in a row on logs and we lit that.
- You stand on the log and then you sort of jump off of it.
- But there were stories of logs drifting in from the Pacific Northwest.
Examples
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Put another log on the fire!
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Luke had described it, all built of peeled logs, roofed with hand-split shakes.
Fiction book (1990) -
We want just one log on each side, Max.
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What are you doing, just sitting on a log, looking at trees all day?
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Shut up and help me move this log!
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It's going to take a lot of logs for that to happen.
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The presence of large logs is important to the functioning of the forest system.
Academic text (1990) -
Matt added some wooden logs to the porch, which we think looks really cute.
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We parked on a patch of dirt ringed by logs and walked through the camp.
Fiction book (1991) -
The old man uses a large log to support his garden fence.
Synonyms
A large tree trunk cut to make boards for building
Compounds
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A video of a burning fireplace that people show on TV or online to make a room feel cozy
- Archaic
A knotted rope on a reel attached to a wooden block used to measure a ship's speed
- Archaic
A cigar-shaped tool with spinning fins that measures a ship's speed through the water
- Specialized
A large log with good wood that is cut into boards for furniture or building
- Archaic
A long round object with rotating fins that measures how fast a ship moves in water
- Archaic
A device towed behind a ship that measures how fast it moves through the water
- Archaic
An old logging machine that lifts one end of a log with hanging tongs between its wheels
- Archaic
A historical logging machine that lifts one end of a log with hanging tongs between wheels to move it
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Log for a section of tree comes from an old English word for a large piece of wood, so a log today is a cut part of a tree trunk often used for firewood or sitting.