word-vault/dist/data/cards/lo/log.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "log",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "image": "data/images/tr/tree.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a thick piece of wood that is cut from or has fallen from a tree",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "logs for the fire"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The road was blocked by fallen logs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They haul the logs into the sawmill."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a pile of sawn logs"
                },
                {
                    "text": "logs crackling in the fireplace"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["cut", "sawn", "fallen"],
                "verb + log": ["chop", "saw", "split"],
                "log + verb": ["blaze", "burn", "crackle"],
                "log + noun": ["cabin", "house", "fire"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an official record of events during a particular period of time, especially a journey on a ship or plane",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The captain keeps a log."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They keep a log of any accidents that occur at work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She kept a log of their voyage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A senior officer made a note in the ship's log."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The captain's log stopped abruptly in May 1944."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Transport by water", "Transport by air"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["detailed", "daily", "captain’s"],
                "verb + log": ["keep", "maintain", "update"],
                "log + noun": ["book", "sheet", "entry"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a written or digital record of activity on a computer or phone line",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I checked the server's error logs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The lawyers will review phone logs and other records."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a logarithm (= any of a series of numbers set out in lists that make it possible to work out problems by adding and subtracting instead of multiplying and dividing)",
            "labels": "(informal, mathematics)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "very easy or very easily",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The whole procedure is as easy as ABC."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fooling him was as easy as falling off a log."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to sleep very well",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He was so tired after all his exertions, he slept like a baby."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I usually sleep like a log."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/lɒɡ/",
                "audio": "lo/log/log__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/lɔːɡ/",
                "audio": "lo/log/log__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "noun senses 1 to 2 Middle English (in the sense ‘bulky mass of wood’): of unknown origin; perhaps symbolic of the notion of heaviness."
}