lognoun [ C ]
uk/lɒɡ/us/lɑːɡ/log noun [ C ] (WOOD)
C1 a thick piece of tree trunk or branch, especially one cut for burning on a fire
Examples
- When I lifted the log, there were lots of beetles skittering about/around under it.
- Running along the beach, she stumbled on a log and fell on the sand.
- He hid the coins in a hollow log.
- We found a huge pile of logs.
- He sawed the log in half.
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Forestry
- afforestation
- arborist
- brushwood
- cut sth down
- deforestation
- flitch
- forested
- forester
- glade
- grove
- jungle
- logging
- logjam
- old growth
- ranger
- saw sth down
- spinney
- the timberline
- tree-lined
- wooded
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log noun [ C ] (RECORD)
a full written record of a journey, a period of time, or an event:
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Books: kinds of books
- abridge
- annual
- anthology
- audiobook
- autobiography
- backlist
- bestiary
- crammer
- digest
- e-reader
- exercise book
- fiction
- flipback
- glossy
- novelette
- novella
- page-turner
- paperback
- photo album
- travelogue
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log noun [ C ] (NUMBER)
informal for logarithm
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Numbers generally
- antilogarithm
- Arabic numeral
- C, c
- cardinal
- D, d
- digit
- I, i
- infinity
- L, l
- logarithm
- M, m
- million
- mode
- nos
- number
- ordinal
- quantitative
- serial number
- whole number
- X, x
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logverb
uk/lɒɡ/us/lɑːɡ/-gg-log verb (CUT WOOD)
[ I or T ] to cut down trees so that you can use their wood:
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Forestry
- afforestation
- arborist
- brushwood
- cut sth down
- deforestation
- flitch
- forested
- forester
- glade
- grove
- jungle
- logging
- logjam
- old growth
- ranger
- saw sth down
- spinney
- the timberline
- tree-lined
- wooded
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log verb (RECORD)
[ T ] to officially record something:
[ T ] UK also log up to travel and record a particular distance
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Writing & typing
- asterisk
- borrow
- chalk
- co-author
- compose
- copy
- creative writing
- enter
- fair sth out
- fire
- ghostwrite
- misspell
- orthography
- record
- run
- scrawl
- transcription
- typing
- write sth up
- written
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