often attributive
1
: a usually bulky piece or length of a cut or fallen tree
especially
: a length of a tree trunk ready for sawing and over six feet (1.8 meters) long
2
: an apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water that consists of a block fastened to a line and run out from a reel
3
a
: the record of the rate of a ship's speed or of her daily progress
also
: the full nautical record of a ship's voyage
b
: the full record of a flight by an aircraft
4
: a record of performance, events, or day-to-day activities
logged; logging
1
a
: to cut (trees) for lumber
b
: to clear (land) of trees in lumbering
—often used with off
2
: to make a note or record of : enter details of or about in a log
3
a
: to move (an indicated distance) or attain (an indicated speed) as noted in a log
b(1)
: to sail a ship or fly an airplane for (an indicated distance or period of time)
(2)
: to have (an indicated record) to one's credit : achieve
logic
variants
or logo-
: word : thought : speech : discourse
logogram
logorrhea
see -logue
Examples of log in a Sentence
Verb
Thousands of trees have been logged in this area.
The forest has been heavily logged.
The company has been logging in this area for many years.
Part of his job is to log all deliveries.
Truck drivers log thousands of miles every week.
She has only been flying for a few months, but she has already logged more than 80 hours.
a pitcher who has logged more than a hundred victories
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William Jones, USA Today, 9 May 2025
The video engine supports all of the same color profiles as for stills, plus has some log profiles (C-Log2 and C-Log3) and HDR HLG.
—PC Magazine, 7 May 2025
Carol Schram, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
When the cat enters the box, their weight is displayed on the front, and the app logs every time it was used, for how long, when the cleaning cycle begins, ends, and when the deodorizing spray was emitted.
—Molly Higgins, Wired News, 9 May 2025
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Noun
More code leads to more infrastructure, more logs, and more performance metrics to track.
—William Jones, USA Today, 9 May 2025
The video engine supports all of the same color profiles as for stills, plus has some log profiles (C-Log2 and C-Log3) and HDR HLG.
—PC Magazine, 7 May 2025
Verb
By that point, the club’s two-minute reveal video had logged more than eight million views and its new hashtag, #TusksUp, had already been used more than 20,000 times, according to team sources.
—Carol Schram, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
When the cat enters the box, their weight is displayed on the front, and the app logs every time it was used, for how long, when the cleaning cycle begins, ends, and when the deodorizing spray was emitted.
—Molly Higgins, Wired News, 9 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for log
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“Log.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/log. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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log
1 of 3 noun
ˈlȯg 
ˈläg
1
: a large piece of a cut or fallen tree
especially
: a long piece of a tree trunk trimmed and ready for sawing
2
: a device for measuring the speed of a ship
3
a
: the daily record of a ship's speed and progress
b
: the full record of a ship's voyage or of an aircraft's flight
4
: a record of performance, events, or day-to-day activities
a computer log
log
2 of 3 verb
logged; logging
1
: to cut trees for lumber or to clear land of trees in lumbering
2
: to put details of or about in a log
3
a
: to move a distance or reach a speed as noted in a log
b
: to sail a ship or fly an aircraft for an indicated distance or time
the pilot logged thousands of miles and hundreds of hours
log
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