log | (noun) measuring instrument that consists of a float that trails from a ship by a knotted line in order to measure the ship's speed through the water | - |
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(noun) a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane) | - |
(noun) the exponent required to produce a given number | Synonyms: logarithm |
(noun) a written record of messages sent or received | - |
(noun) a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches | - |
(verb) enter into a log, as on ships and planes | - |
(verb) cut lumber, as in woods and forests | Synonyms: lumber |
logagraphia | (noun) a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion | Synonyms: agraphia, anorthography |
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loganberry | (noun) large red variety of the dewberry | - |
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(noun) red-fruited bramble native from Oregon to Baja California | Synonyms: Rubus loganobaccus, Rubus ursinus loganobaccus |
logarithm | (noun) the exponent required to produce a given number | Synonyms: log |
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logarithmic | (adjective) of or relating to or using logarithms | - |
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logarithmically | (adverb) in a logarithmic manner | - |
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logbook | (noun) a book in which the log is written | - |
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loge | (noun) balcony consisting of the forward section of a theater mezzanine | - |
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(noun) private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance | Synonyms: box |
logger | (noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: faller, feller, lumberjack, lumberman |
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loggerhead | (noun) very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas | Synonyms: Caretta caretta, loggerhead turtle |
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(noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
loggerheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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loggia | (noun) a roofed arcade or gallery with open sides stretching along the front or side of a building; often at an upper level | - |
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logginess | (noun) a dull and listless state resulting from weariness | Synonyms: loginess |
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logging | (noun) the work of cutting down trees for timber | - |
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logic | (noun) the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference | - |
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(noun) a system of reasoning | Synonyms: logical system, system of logic |
(noun) reasoned and reasonable judgment | - |
(noun) the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation | - |
(noun) the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations | - |
logical | (adjective) capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning | - |
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(adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherent, consistent, ordered |
(adjective) capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner | Synonyms: coherent, lucid |
(adjective) based on known statements or events or conditions | Synonyms: legitimate |
logicality | (noun) correct and valid reasoning | Synonyms: logicalness |
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logically | (adverb) in a logical manner | - |
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(adverb) according to logical reasoning | - |
logicalness | (noun) correct and valid reasoning | Synonyms: logicality |
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logician | (noun) a person skilled at logic | Synonyms: logistician |
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logicism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all of mathematics can be derived from formal logic | - |
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loginess | (noun) a dull and listless state resulting from weariness | Synonyms: logginess |
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logion | (noun) a saying of Jesus that is regarded as authentic although it is not recorded in the Gospels | - |
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logistic | (adjective) of or relating to logistics | Synonyms: logistical |
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logistical | (adjective) of or relating to logistics | Synonyms: logistic |
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logistician | (noun) a person skilled at logic | Synonyms: logician |
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logistics | (noun) handling an operation that involves providing labor and materials be supplied as needed | - |
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logjam | (noun) an immovable mass of logs blocking a river | - |
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(noun) any stoppage attributable to unusual activity | - |
logo | (noun) a company emblem or device | Synonyms: logotype |
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logogram | (noun) a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation | Synonyms: logograph |
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logogrammatic | (adjective) of or relating to logograms or logographs | Synonyms: logographic |
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logogrammatically | (adverb) by means of logograms | - |
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logograph | (noun) a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation | Synonyms: logogram |
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logographic | (adjective) of or relating to logograms or logographs | Synonyms: logogrammatic |
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logomach | (noun) someone given to disputes over words | Synonyms: logomachist |
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logomachist | (noun) someone given to disputes over words | Synonyms: logomach |
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logomachy | (noun) argument about words or the meaning of words | - |
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logomania | (noun) pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking | Synonyms: logorrhea |
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logorrhea | (noun) pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking | Synonyms: logomania |
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logotype | (noun) a company emblem or device | Synonyms: logo |
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logroll | (verb) work toward the passage of some legislation by exchanging political favors such as trading votes | - |
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logrolling | (noun) rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport) | Synonyms: birling |
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(noun) act of exchanging favors for mutual gain; especially trading of influence or votes among legislators to gain passage of certain projects | - |
logwood | (noun) spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye | Synonyms: bloodwood tree, campeachy, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood tree |
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(noun) very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye | - |
logy | (adjective) stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) | Synonyms: dazed, foggy, groggy, stuporous |
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