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• n. / v. 日志, 记录; 木头
• ［英］ n. / v. 日志, 记录 ( a daily record)

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Usage: often attributive
• Etymology: Middle English logge
• Date: 14th century
• 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 <a computer log>

II. verb (logged; logging)

• Date: 1699
• transitive verb
  • 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
• intransitive verb
  • lumber III,1

III. noun

• Usage: often attributive
• Etymology: by shortening
• Date: 1631
• logarithm

IV. abbreviation

• logic

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