log
verb/lɒɡ/
/lɔːɡ/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| 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/ |
- 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.
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- 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.
- log something to cut down trees in a forest for their woodTopics The environmentc2More Like This Consonant-doubling verbsConsonant-doubling verbs
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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