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Definition of log verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

log

verb
 
/lɒɡ/
 
/lɔːɡ/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they log
 
/lɒɡ/
 
/lɔːɡ/
he / she / it logs
 
/lɒɡz/
 
/lɔːɡz/
past simple logged
 
/lɒɡd/
 
/lɔːɡd/
past participle logged
 
/lɒɡd/
 
/lɔːɡd/
-ing form logging
 
/ˈlɒɡɪŋ/
 
/ˈlɔːɡɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
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  1. log something to put information in an official record or write a record of events synonym record
    • The police log all phone calls.
    Extra Examples
    • It was a diary logging life on a sailing ship in the 1870s.
    • The call was logged at 16.20.
    • The crimes were logged but not investigated.
  2. log something to travel a particular distance or for a particular length of time synonym clock up
    • The pilot has logged 1 000 hours in the air.
  3. log something to cut down trees in a forest for their woodTopics The environmentc2
  4. Word Originverb Middle English (in the sense ‘bulky mass of wood’): of unknown origin; perhaps symbolic of the notion of heaviness.
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