Logging

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Log \Log\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Logged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Logging}.]
     1. (Naut.), To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the
        miles run. --J. F. Cooper.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. To record any event in a logbook, especially an event
        relating to the operation of a machine or device.
        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Logging \Log"ging\, n.
     The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and
     transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  log
       n 1: a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches
       2: large log at the back of a hearth fire [syn: {backlog}]
       3: the exponent required to produce a given number [syn: {logarithm}]
       4: a written record of messages sent or received; "they kept a
          log of all transmission by the radio station"; "an email
          log"
       5: a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane)
       6: 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
       v 1: enter into a log, as on ships and planes
       2: cut lumber, as in woods and forests [syn: {lumber}]
       [also: {logging}, {logged}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  logging
       n : the work of cutting down trees for timber

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  logging
       See {log}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "logging":
     Christmas tree farming, afforestation, arboriculture, booking,
     cataloging, chronicling, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entry,
     forest management, forestation, forestry, impanelment, indexing,
     inscribing, inscription, insertion, inventorying, listing,
     lumbering, matriculation, posting, record keeping, recordation,
     recording, reforestation, register, registration, registry,
     silviculture, tabulation, tree farming, woodcraft