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log line

log line

3.7
A single line in a computer log that records an event and time
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : línea de registro
  • Each log line in the system's records provided important details about user activity.

Examples

  • I found a useful log line that indicated when the error occurred in the application.

  • The developer wrote a clear log line to explain the purpose of the recent software update.

  • I mean, you're basically telling them the log line in a short period of time.

  • So Vince Gilligan's log line for Breaking Bad was.

  • And so I thought, you know, when I got the log line before I read the script, because I it was a play before it was a, a screenplay.

  • Of course that we didn't say the storytelling and this the log line of OK, we are going to shoot a mole that it's entering here because a client hire him.

How Important

incident
2.7
alert
297 2.8
track event
  • Specialized
5.1
event
  • Specialized
37 4.7
interaction
259 3.5
log line
  • Specialized
3.7

Surface Forms

log line singular
log lines plural

Morphology

log + line

The compound is compositionally predictable if the learner knows the technical sense of log = 'record' (record + line → a single entry in a log), so in that case the meaning follows directly from the constituents. However, log is polysemous (the provided constituent definition is the nautical tool) and the computer/record sense is domain-specific, so a B1 learner who only knows the non-technical sense would not reliably infer the MWE meaning without exposure.

Etymology

Log line comes from the idea of a 'log' as a record and a 'line' as one entry. A single log line is like one short record of an event in a computer 'log', so it means one recorded message or event.