Log

[lɒg] or [lɔɡ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) measuring instrument that consists of a float that trails from a ship by a knotted line in order to measure the ship's speed through the water.

(noun.) a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane).

(noun.) a written record of messages sent or received; 'they kept a log of all transmission by the radio station'; 'an email log'.

(noun.) a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches.

(verb.) enter into a log, as on ships and planes.

(verb.) cut lumber, as in woods and forests.

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解釋/意思:

(n.) A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills.

(n.) A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.

(n.) An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.

(v. t.) To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run.

(v. i.) To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs.

(v. i.) To move to and fro; to rock.

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解釋/意思:

n. a bulky piece of wood: a heavy stupid or sluggish person.—adj. consisting of logs.—ns. Log′-cab′in -house -hut a cabin or hut built of hewn or unhewn logs common in new American settlements; Log′gat a small log or piece of wood: an old game somewhat like nine-pins; Log′gerhead a blockhead: a dunce: (naut.) a round piece of timber in a whale-boat over which the line is passed: a species of sea-turtle: a round mass of iron with a long handle heated for various purposes.—adj. Log′gerheaded.—ns. Log′-head a blockhead; Log′-man (Shak.) a man who carries logs: (U.S.) one whose occupation is to cut and remove logs—also Log′ger.—v.t. Log′-roll to engage in log-rolling.—ns. Log′-roll′er; Log′-roll′ing a combination for facilitating the collection of logs after the clearing of a piece of land or for rolling logs into a stream: mutual aid given by politicians for carrying out individual schemes: a system of literary criticism conducted on the lines of mutual admiration or adulation; Log′wood the dark-red heart-wood of H鎚atoxylon campechianum a native of Mexico and Central America whence it is exported in logs.—At loggerheads at issue quarrelling about differences of opinion &c.

n. a Hebrew liquid measure believed to be very nearly an English pint.

n. a piece of wood with a line for measuring the speed of a ship: the record of a ship's progress.—v.t. to exhibit by the indication of the log: to enter in the logbook.—ns. Log′board; Log′book the official record of the proceedings on board ship: a book kept by the head-master of a board-school for recording attendances and other matters connected with the school; Log′-chip the board in the form of a quadrant attached to a logline; Log′-glass a 14- or 28-second sand-glass used with the logline to ascertain the speed of a ship; Log′line the line fastened to the log and marked for finding the speed of a vessel; Log′-reel a reel on which the logline is wound; Log′-slate a double slate marked and ruled in the inside for recording the log.—Heave the log to learn the speed of a ship by logline and glass.

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