log

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noun

1 wood

ADJECTIVE

▪ cut, sawn

▪

a pile of sawn logs

▪ fallen

▪

The road was blocked by fallen logs.

▪ rotting

▪ blazing, burning

▪ floating

▪ cedar, oak, pine, etc.

VERB + LOG

▪ chop (BrE), saw, split

▪ haul

▪

They haul the logs into the sawmill.

▪ add, throw, throw on

▪

I added another log to the fire.

▪

The fire is dying down—would you throw on another log?

LOG + VERB

▪ blaze, burn, crackle

▪

logs crackling in the fireplace

▪ float

LOG + NOUN

▪ cabin, house (esp. AmE)

▪ fire

2 written record

ADJECTIVE

▪ detailed

▪ daily

▪ captain's, ship's

▪ Web (usually weblog or blog)

▪

He maintains two weblogs on economic topics.

▪ phone (esp. AmE), server (computing)

▪

The lawyers will review phone logs and other records.

▪ error (computing)

▪

I checked the server's error logs.

VERB + LOG

▪ keep, maintain

▪

She kept a log of their voyage.

▪ update

▪

This feature continuously updates the log as data is written.

▪ check, examine

LOG + NOUN

▪ book, sheet

▪ entry

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verb

Log is used with these nouns as the object: ↑mile