logging

Verb (1)

log (third-person singular simple present logs, present participle logging, simple past and past participle logged)

1. (transitive) To cut trees into logs.
2. (transitive) To cut down (trees).
   • Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of...2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29
3. (intransitive) To cut down trees in an area, harvesting and transporting the logs as wood.

Verb (2)

log (third-person singular simple present logs, present participle logging, simple past and past participle logged)

1. (transitive) To make, to add an entry (or more) in a log or logbook.
   • to log the miles travelled by a ship
2. (transitive) To travel (a distance) as shown in a logbook.
3. (transitive) To travel at a specified speed, as ascertained by a chip log.

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