web log
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- noun
- /wɛb lɔg/
- Texting
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blog
- With the help of another colleague and an intern who is a recent journalism school graduate, he publishes a web log, the LNG Law Blog.
- web log or blog
Examples
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Since the dawn of the Internet, there have been web logs, or "blogs," and since the dawn of blogs, there have been directories.
Blog text (20) -
Blogs (originally web logs) are short, online journal entries that generally deal with current topics.
Academic text (2012) -
Things like a web log can work, but the Internet takes time and attention.
Academic text (2006) -
But your blog isn't just a, a journal such as a web log, right?
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Now writing up this web log entry and then onto Caroline's costume.
Blog text (18) -
Web log analysis techniques range from simple statistics that capture page popularity trends to sophisticated time-series methods that describe access patterns across multiple user sessions.
Academic text (2012) -
Once in the virtual room, members of the group share a web log of text-based conversations, as well as maintain and record a sequential transcript of the online discussion.
Academic text (2012) -
Web logs, or blogs, first began to appear in 1997 and now include a wide variety of content, from multi-user online magazines to personal diaries of individuals.
Blog text (20) -
What is a blog? Blogs (short for "web logs") are websites that reflect an author's informal thoughts on topics of personal interest (Richardson, 2010).
Academic text (2012) -
She updates her web log every week with stories about her travels and adventures.
Synonyms
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2.7
A website where a person or group regularly writes short posts about a topic
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3.3
A website where a person regularly writes posts about their life or interests
How Personal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a file produced by a web server that records requests and activity' is directly and compositionally derivable from 'web' (online system) + 'log' (a systematic written record); a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer it denotes a record of web activity. This noun compound follows common English compounding patterns and similar formations exist in other languages, making it readily understandable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Web log comes from joining web (the internet) and log (a captain's diary). Imagine a ship's log where the captain writes daily notes; a web log is the same idea on the internet, so it came to mean 'online diary'.