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Log can be a verb or a noun.
log used as a verb:
- To cut trees into logs
- To cut down (trees).
- To travel at a specified speed, as ascertained by log chip
- To cut down trees in an area, harvesting and transporting the logs as wood
- To make, to add an entry (or more) in a log(book).
- To travel (a distance) as shown in a logbook
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
log used as a noun:
- The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.
"They walked across the stream on a fallen log." - Any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc.
- A chip log, a device used in navigation to estimate the speed of a vessel through water.
- A logbook.
- A blockhead, very dumb person.
- A longboard.
"I know he hadn’t surfed on a log much in his childhood — Neal Miyake 1999 [http://www.iav.com/~sponge/sesh/new2/sesh213.htm]" - A rolled cake with filling; Swiss roll.
- A logbook, or journal of a vessel (or aircraft)'s progress
- A chronological record of actions, performances, computer/network usage, etc.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is log?
- Noun usage: They walked across the stream on a fallen log.
- Noun usage: I know he hadn’t surfed on a log much in his childhood — Neal Miyake 1999 [http://www.iav.com/~sponge/sesh/new2/sesh213.htm]
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of log are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of log, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).