How to pronounce log

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What log means

noun

Most people know log in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

A daily written record of what happens on a voyage

In a sentence: Every night the captain wrote the ship's speed and the weather in the log.

Where it comes from: It is short for logbook. Sailors once tossed a wooden float called a log over the side to measure the ship's speed, and wrote it down in this book.

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