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log

1  [lawg, log] noun, verb, logged, log⋅ging.
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–noun
1. a portion or length of the trunk or of a large limb of a felled tree.
2. something inert, heavy, or not sentient.
3. Nautical. any of various devices for determining the speed of a ship, as a chip log or patent log.
4. any of various records, made in rough or finished form, concerning a trip made by a ship or aircraft and dealing with particulars of navigation, weather, engine performance, discipline, and other pertinent details; logbook.
5. Movies. an account describing or denoting each shot as it is taken, written down during production and referred to in editing the film.
6. a register of the operation of a machine.
7. Also called well log. a record kept during the drilling of a well, esp. of the geological formations penetrated.
8. Computers. any of various chronological records made concerning the use of a computer system, the changes made to data, etc.
9. Radio and Television. a written account of everything transmitted by a station or network.
10. Also called log of wood. Australian Slang. a lazy, dull-witted person; fool.
–verb (used with object)
11. to cut (trees) into logs: to log pine trees for fuel.
12. to cut down the trees or timber on (land): We logged the entire area in a week.
13. to enter in a log; compile; amass; keep a record of: to log a day's events.
14. to make (a certain speed), as a ship or airplane: We are logging 18 knots.
15. to travel for (a certain distance or a certain amount of time), according to the record of a log: We logged 30 miles the first day. He has logged 10,000 hours flying time.
–verb (used without object)
16. to cut down trees and get out logs from the forest for timber: to log for a living.
—Verb phrases
17. log in,
a. Also, log on, sign on. Computers. to enter identifying data, as a name or password, into a multiuser system, so as to be able to do work with the system.
b. to enter or include any item of information or data in a record, account, etc.
18. log off or out, Computers. to terminate a work session using a multiuser system, or a connection to such a system.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME logge, var. of lugge pole, limb of tree; cf. obs. logget pole; see lugsail, logbook

Related forms:
loggish, adjective
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log 1   (lôg, lŏg)   
n.  

    1. A usually large section of a trunk or limb of a fallen or felled tree.

    2. A long thick section of trimmed, unhewn timber.

    3. A device trailed from a ship to determine its speed through the water.

    4. A record of a ship's speed, its progress, and any shipboard events of navigational importance.

    5. The book in which this record is kept.

  2. Nautical

    1. A device trailed from a ship to determine its speed through the water.

    2. A record of a ship's speed, its progress, and any shipboard events of navigational importance.

    3. The book in which this record is kept.

  3. A record of a vehicle's performance, as the flight record of an aircraft.

  4. A record, as of the performance of a machine or the progress of an undertaking: a computer log; a trip log.

v.   logged, log·ging, logs

v.   tr.

    1. To cut down, trim, and haul the timber of (a piece of land).

    2. To cut (timber) into unhewn sections.

  2. To enter in a record, as of a ship or an aircraft.

  3. To travel (a specified distance, time, or speed): logged 30,000 air miles in April.

  4. To spend or accumulate (time): had logged 25 years with the company.

v.   intr.
To cut down, trim, and haul timber.
Phrasal Verb(s):
log in/onTo enter into a computer the information required to begin a session.
log out/offTo enter into a computer the command to end a session.

[Middle English logge.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
log

  1. in.
    to defecate. (See also dog-log.) : Bubba's in the crapper, logging.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

log  (n.)
1398, of unknown origin. O.N. had lag "felled tree" (from stem of liggja "to lie"), but on phonological grounds etymologists deny that this is the root of Eng. log. Instead, they suggest an independent formation meant to "express the notion of something massive by a word of appropriate sound." Logging "act of cutting timber" is from 1706. Logjam "congestion of logs on a river" is from 1885; in the figurative sense it is from 1890. Logrolling in the legislative vote-trading sense first recorded 1823, from the notion of neighbors on the frontier helping one another with the heavy work of clearing land and building cabins (as in phrase you roll my log and I'll roll yours). Log cabin in Amer.Eng. has been a figure of the honest pioneer since the 1840 presidential campaign of William Henry Harrison.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: log
Function: noun
: REGISTER 1
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Computing Dictionary

log in security
(Or "login", "log on", "logon") To start a session with a system, usually by giving a user name and password as a means of user authentication. The term is also used to mean the ability to access a service (also called an account), e.g. "Have you been given a login yet?"
"Log in/on" is occasionally misused to refer to starting a session where no authorisation is involved, or to access where there is no session involved. E.g. "Log on to our Web site!"
"login" is also the Unix program which reads and verifies a user's user name and password and starts an interactive session.
The noun forms are usually written as a single word whereas the verb forms are often written as two words.
To end a session is to "log out" or "off".
(2006-07-10)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Idioms & Phrases

log in

Also, log on. Enter into a computer the information needed to begin a session, as in I logged in at two o'clock, or There's no record of your logging on today. These expressions refer especially to large systems shared by numerous individuals, who need to enter a username or password before executing a program. The antonyms are log off and log out, meaning "to end a computer session." All these expressions derive from the use of log in the nautical sense of entering information about a ship in a journal called a log book. [c. 1960]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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