Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 45
Locusta (n.) (Bot.) The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses. -- Gray.
Locusta (n.) A genus of Acrididae [syn: Locusta, genus Locusta].
Locustella (n.) (Zool.) The European cricket warbler.
Locustic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the locust; -- formerly used to designate a supposed acid.
Locusting (p. a.) Swarming and devastating like locusts. [R.] -- Tennyson.
Locust tree () (Bot.) A large North American tree of the genus Robinia ({Robinia Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree. In England it is called acacia.
Note: The name is also applied to other trees of different genera, especially to those of the genus Hymen[ae]a, of which Hymen[ae]a Courbaril is a lofty, spreading tree of South America; also to the carob tree ({Ceratonia siliqua), a tree growing in the Mediterranean region.
Honey locust tree (Bot.), A tree of the genus Gleditschia (Gleditschia triacanthus), having pinnate leaves and strong branching thorns; -- so called from a sweet pulp found between the seeds in the pods. Called also simply honey locust.
Water locust tree (Bot.), A small swamp tree ({Gleditschia monosperma), of the Southern United States.
Locust tree (n.) Any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae [syn: locust tree, locust].
Locution (n.) Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression. " Stumbling locutions." -- G. Eliot.
I hate these figures in locution, These about phrases forced by ceremony. -- Marston.
Locution (n.) A word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations; "pardon the expression" [syn: saying, expression, locution].
Locutory (n.) A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.
Lodde (n.) (Zool.) The capelin.
Lode (n.) A water course or way; a reach of water.
Down that long, dark lode . . . he and his brother skated home in triumph. -- C. Kingsley.
Lode (n.) (Mining) A body of ore visibly separated from adjacent rock.
Lode (n.) Especially: (Mining) Any regular vein or course of valuable mineral, whether metallic or not.
Lode (n.) Hence: A concentrated supply or source of something valuable.
Mother lode, () A large concentrated source of mineral or other valuable thing, from which lesser sources have been derived; -- often used figuratively. The term may have been originally applied to real or imagined large deposits of gold from which smaller granules were washed downstream, there constituting a diluted source of gold, and hinting at the richer source from which they were derived; as, to hit the mother lode.
Lode (n.) A deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks [syn: lode, load].
Lode (n.) A metallic vein; any regular vein or course, whether metallic or not.
Lodemanage (n.) Pilotage. [Obs.]
Loadmanage, Lodemanage (n.) Pilotage; skill of a pilot or
loadsman. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Lode-ship (n.) An old name for a pilot boat.
Loadsman, Lodesman (n.) A pilot. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Loadstar
Lodesman (n.) Same as Loadsman. [Obs.]
Loadstar, Lodestar (n.) A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar, Polaris; also, the constellation containing the pole star, the cynosure (Ursa Minor). -- Chaucer. " Your eyes are lodestars." -- Shak.
The pilot can no loadstar see. -- Spenser.
Loadstar, Lodestar (n.) Something that serves as a guide or provides direction; a cynosure [2].
Loadstar, Lodestar (n.) Something that attracts attention or on which the attention is fixed; a cynosure [3]. Loadstone
Lodestar (n.) Same as Loadstar.
Lodestar (n.) Guiding star; a star that is used as a reference point in navigation or astronomy [syn: lodestar, loadstar].
Lodestar (n.) Something that serves as a model or guide [syn: lodestar, loadstar].
Loadstone, Lodestone (n.) (Min.) A piece of magnetite, a magnetic iron ore, possessing polarity like a magnetic needle, having the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically. See Magnetite.
Lodestone (n.) (Min.) Same as Loadstone.
Lodestone (n.) A permanent magnet consisting of magnetite that possess polarity and has the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically [syn: lodestone, loadstone].
Lodestone (n.) [ C or U ] （天然） 磁鐵，磁石 (A piece of) Rock that contains a lot of iron and can therefore be used as a magnet (= an object that pulls metal objects towards it).
Lodged (imp. & p. p.) of Lodge.
Lodging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lodge.
Lodge (v. i.) To rest or remain a lodge house, or other shelter; to rest; to stay; to abide; esp., to sleep at night; as, to lodge in York Street. -- Chaucer.
Stay and lodge by me this night. -- Shak.
Something holy lodges in that breast. -- Milton.
Lodge (v. i.) To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind. --Mortimer.
Lodge (v. i.) To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree; a piece of meat lodged in his throat.
Lodge (n.) A shelter in which one may rest; as:
Lodge (n.) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge. -- Chaucer.
Their lodges and their tentis up they gan bigge [to build]. -- Robert of Brunne.
O for a lodge in some vast wilderness! -- Cowper.
Lodge (n.) A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate. -- Shak.
Lodge (n.) A den or cave.
Lodge (n.) The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.
Lodge (n.) The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
Lodge (n.) (Mining) The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also platt. -- Raymond.
Lodge (n.) A collection of objects lodged together.
The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands. -- De Foe.
Lodge (n.) A family of North American Indians, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge, -- as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons; as, the tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals.
Lodge gate, a park gate, or entrance gate, near the lodge.
See Lodge, n., 1 (b) .
Lodge (v. t.) To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold.
Every house was proud to lodge a knight. -- Dryden.
The memory can lodge a greater store of images than
all the senses can present at one time. -- Cheyne.
Lodge (v. t.) To drive to shelter; to track to covert.
The deer is lodged; I have tracked her to her covert. -- Addison.
Lodge (v. t.) To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal.
Lodge (v. t.) To cause to stop or rest in; to implant.
He lodged an arrow in a tender breast. -- Addison.
Lodge (v. t.) To lay down; to prostrate.
Though bladed corn be lodged, and trees blown down. -- Shak.
Lodge (v. t.) To present or bring (information, a complaint) before a court or other authority; as, to lodge a complaint.
To lodge an information, to enter a formal complaint.
Lodge (n.) English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940) [syn: Lodge, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge].
Lodge (n.) A formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today" [syn: club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order].
Lodge (n.) Small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener.
Lodge (n.) A small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter [syn: lodge, hunting lodge].
Lodge (n.) Any of various Native American dwellings [syn: lodge, indian lodge].
Lodge (n.) A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers [syn: hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge, auberge].
Lodge (v.) Be a lodger; stay temporarily; "Where are you lodging in Paris?"
Lodge (v.) Put, fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table"; "stick your thumb in the crack" [syn: lodge, wedge, stick, deposit] [ant: dislodge, free].
Lodge (v.) File a formal charge against; "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife" [syn: charge, lodge, file].
Lodge (v.) Provide housing for; "We are lodging three foreign students this semester" [syn: lodge, accommodate].
Lodge, () A shed for a watchman in a garden (Isa. 1:8). The Hebrew name _melunah_ is rendered "cottage" (q.v.) in Isa. 24:20. It also denotes a hammock or hanging-bed.
Lodge, SC -- U.S. town in South Carolina
Population (2000): 114
Housing Units (2000): 59
Land area (2000): 3.141949 sq. miles (8.137610 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.141949 sq. miles (8.137610 sq. km)
FIPS code: 42280
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 33.068675 N, 80.957689 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 29082
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Lodge, SC
Lodge
Lodgeable (a.) That may be or can be lodged; as, so many persons are not lodgeable in this village.
Lodgeable (a.) Capable of affording lodging; fit for lodging in. [R.] "
The lodgeable area of the earth." -- Jeffrey.
Lodged (a.) (Her.) Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.
Lodgment (n.) [Written also lodgement.] The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged.
Any particle which is of size enough to make a lodgment afterwards in the small arteries. -- Paley.
Lodgment (n.) A lodging place; a room. [Obs.]
Lodgment (n.) An accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest.
Lodgment (n.) (Mil.) The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effect a lodgment.
Lodgement (n.) See Lodgment.
Lodgement (n.) Bringing a charge or accusation against someone [syn: lodgment, lodgement].
Lodgement (n.) The state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily; "the lodgment of the balloon in the tree" [syn: lodgment, lodgement, lodging].
Lodger (n.) One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.
Lodger (n.) A tenant in someone's house [syn: lodger, boarder, roomer].
Lodger. () One who has a right to inhabit another man's house. He has not the same right as a tenant; and is not entitled to the same notice to quit. Woodf. L. &_T. 177. See 7 Mann. & Gr. 87; S. C. 49 E. C. L. R. 85, 151, and article Inmate.
Lodger. (n.) A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.
Lodging (n.) The act of one who, or that which, lodges.
Lodging (n.) A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning. -- Gower.
Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow. -- Pope.
Lodging (n.) Abiding place; harbor; cover.
Fair bosom . . . the lodging of delight. -- Spenser.
Lodging house, A house where lodgings are provided and let.
Lodging room, A room in which a person lodges, esp. a hired room.
Lodging (n.) Structures collectively in which people are housed [syn: housing, lodging, living accommodations].
Lodging (n.) The state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily; "the lodgment of the balloon in the tree" [syn: lodgment, lodgement, lodging].
Lodging (n.) The act of lodging.
Lodgment (n.) The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged.
Any particle which is of size enough to make a lodgment afterwards in the small arteries. -- Paley.
Lodgment (n.) A lodging place; a room. [Obs.]
Lodgment (n.) An accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest.
Lodgment (n.) (Mil.) The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effect a lodgment.
Lodgment (n.) Bringing a charge or accusation against someone [syn: lodgment, lodgement].
Lodgment (n.) The state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily; "the lodgment of the balloon in the tree" [syn: lodgment, lodgement, lodging].
Lodicule (n.) (Bot.) One of the two or three delicate membranous scales which are next to the stamens in grasses.
Loellingite (n.) (Min.) A tin-white arsenide of iron, isomorphous with arsenopyrite.
Loess (n.) (Geol.) A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers.
Loess (n.) A fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind.
Loeven's larva (n.) (Zool.) The peculiar larva of Polygordius. See Polygordius.
Loffe (v. i.) To laugh. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Loft (n.) That which is lifted up; an elevation. Hence, especially:
Loft (n.) The room or space under a roof and above the ceiling of the uppermost story.
Loft (n.) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft.
Loft (n.) A floor or room placed above another; a story. especially, an upper story located in a building with a business below, often having no partitions, and in cities sometimes converted into living quarters, or used as studios for artists.
Eutychus . . . fell down from the third loft. -- Acts xx. 9.
Loft (n.) (Golf) Pitch or slope of the face of a club (tending to drive the ball upward).
On loft, Aloft; on high. Cf. Onloft. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Loft (a.) Lofty; proud. [R. & Obs.] -- Surrey.
Loft, (v. t.) To make or furnish with a loft; to cause to have loft; as, a lofted house; a lofted golf-club head.
A wooden club with a lofted face. -- Encyc. of Sport.
Loft (v. t. & i.) [imp. & p. p. Lofted; p. pr. & vb. n. Lofting.] To raise aloft; To send into the air; esp. (Golf), to strike (the ball) so that it will go over an obstacle.
Loft (n.) Floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space.
Loft (n.) Floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage [syn: loft, attic, garret].
Loft (n.) (Golf) The backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that is designed to drive the ball high in the air.
Loft (n.) A raised shelter in which pigeons are kept [syn: loft, pigeon loft].
Loft (v.) Store in a loft.
Loft (v.) Propel through the air; "The rocket lofted the space shuttle into the air."
Loft (v.) Kick or strike high in the air; "loft a ball."
Loft (v.) Lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull.
Loftily (adv.) In a lofty manner or position; haughtily.
Loftily (adv.) In a lofty manner; "she bore herself loftily."
Loftiness (n.) The state or quality of being lofty.
Loftiness (n.) The quality of being high or lofty [syn: highness, loftiness] [ant: lowness].
Loftiness (n.) Impressiveness in scale or proportion [syn: stateliness, majesty, loftiness].
Lofty (a.) 高的，高超的，傲慢的，崇高的，高級的，玄虛的 Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.
See lofty Lebanon his head advance. -- Pope.
Lofty (a.) Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty.
The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. -- Is. lvii. 15.
Lofty and sour to them that loved him not. -- Shak.
Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. -- Milton.
Syn: Tall; high; exalted; dignified; stately; majestic; sublime; proud; haughty. See Tall.
Lofty (a.) Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high- flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand purpose" [syn: {exalted}, {elevated}, {sublime}, {grand}, {high-flown}, {high-minded}, {lofty}, {rarefied}, {rarified}, {idealistic}, {noble-minded}].
Lofty (a.) Of imposing height; especially standing out above others; "an eminent peak"; "lofty mountains"; "the soaring spires of the cathedral"; "towering icebergs" [syn: {eminent}, {lofty}, {soaring}, {towering}].
Lofty (a.) Having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine peaks" [syn: {gallant}, {lofty}, {majestic}, {proud}].
Log (n.) 圓木；木料；原木；測程儀，計程儀；記錄，日誌 A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills. -- W. H. Ward.
Log (n.) A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.
Log (n.) (Naut.) An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.
Note: The common log consists of the log-chip, or logship, often exclusively called the log, and the log line, the former being commonly a thin wooden quadrant of five or six inches radius, loaded with lead on the arc to make it float with the point up. It is attached to the log line by cords from each corner. This line is divided into equal spaces, called knots, each bearing the same proportion to a mile that half a minute does to an hour. The line is wound on a reel which is so held as to let it run off freely. When the log is thrown, the log-chip is kept by the water from being drawn forward, and the speed of the ship is shown by the number of knots run out in half a minute. There are improved logs, consisting of a piece of mechanism which, being towed astern, shows the distance actually gone through by the ship, by means of the revolutions of a fly, which are registered on a dial plate.
Log (n.) Hence: The record of the rate of speed of a ship or airplane, and of the course of its progress for the duration of a voyage; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book.
Log (n.) Hence, generally: A record and tabulated statement of the person(s) operating, operations performed, resources consumed, and the work done by any machine, device, or system.
Log (n.) (Mining) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
Log (n.) (computers) A record of activities performed within a program, or changes in a database or file on a computer, and typically kept as a file in the computer.
Log board (Naut.), A board consisting of two parts shutting together like a book, with columns in which are entered the direction of the wind, course of the ship, etc., during each hour of the day and night. These entries are transferred to the log book. A folding slate is now used instead.
Log book, or Logbook (Naut.), A book in which is entered the daily progress of a ship at sea, as indicated by the log, with notes on the weather and incidents of the voyage; the contents of the log board.
Log book, or Logbook (Naut.), A book in which a log [4] is recorded.
Log cabin, Log house, A cabin or house made of logs.
Log canoe, A canoe made by shaping and hollowing out a single log; a dugout canoe.
Log glass (Naut.), A small sandglass used to time the running out of the log line.
Log line (Naut.), A line or cord about a hundred and fifty fathoms long, fastened to the log-chip. See Note under 2d Log, n., 2.
Log perch (Zool.), An ethiostomoid fish, or darter ({Percina caprodes); -- called also hogfish and rockfish.
Log reel (Naut.), The reel on which the log line is wound.
Log slate. (Naut.) See Log board (above).
Rough log (Naut.), A first draught of a record of the cruise or voyage.
Smooth log (Naut.), A clean copy of the rough log. In the case of naval vessels this copy is forwarded to the proper officer of the government.
To heave the log (Naut.), To cast the log-chip into the water; also, the whole process of ascertaining a vessel's speed by the log.
Logged (imp. & p. p.) of Log.
Logging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Log.
Log (v. t.) (Naut.) 伐；把鋸成段木；採伐的林木；把...記入航海日誌；伐木 To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run. -- J. F. Cooper.
Log (v. t.) To record any event in a logbook, especially an event relating to the operation of a machine or device.
Log (v. i.) To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs. [U.S.]
Log (v. i.) To move to and fro; to rock. [Obs.]
Log (n.) A segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches.
Log (n.) The exponent required to produce a given number [syn: logarithm, log].
Log (n.) A written record of messages sent or received; "they kept a log of all transmission by the radio station"; "an email log."
Log (n.) A written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane).
Log (n.) 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.
Log (v.) Enter into a log, as on ships and planes.
Log (v.) Cut lumber, as in woods and forests [syn: log, lumber].
Log, () Logarithm.
Log, () A record of the activity of some system, often stored in a particular file.
Different operating systems have different conventions and support for storing logs. Unix has the syslog system and the /var/log directory hierarchy, Microsoft Windows has event logs. Web servers, for example, typically record information about every page accessed in one or more "web logs". (2009-05-29)
Log, () The smallest measure for liquids used by the Hebrews (Lev. 14:10, 12, 15, 21, 24), called in the Vulgate sextarius. It is the Hebrew unit of measure of capacity, and is equal to the contents of six ordinary hen's eggs=the twelfth part of a him, or nearly a pint.
Logan (n.) A rocking or balanced stone. -- Gwill.
Logan (n.) A mountain peak in the St. Elias Range in the southwestern Yukon Territory in Canada (19,850 feet high) [syn: Logan, Mount Logan].
Logan -- U.S. County in Kentucky
Population (2000): 26573
Housing Units (2000): 11875
Land area (2000): 555.684461 sq. miles (1439.216087 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.413032 sq. miles (3.659735 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 557.097493 sq. miles (1442.875822 sq. km)
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 36.864453 N, 86.872605 W
Headwords:
Logan
Logan, KY
Logan County
Logan County, KY
Logan -- U.S. County in Illinois
Population (2000): 31183
Housing Units (2000): 11872
Land area (2000): 618.139601 sq. miles (1600.974150 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.865983 sq. miles (2.242885 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 619.005584 sq. miles (1603.217035 sq. km)
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 40.143596 N, 89.365106 W
Headwords:
Logan
Logan, IL
Logan County
Logan County, IL
Logan -- U.S. County in Kansas
Population (2000): 3046
Housing Units (2000): 1423
Land area (2000): 1072.987126 sq. miles (2779.023781 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.106035 sq. miles (0.274630 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1073.093161 sq. miles (2779.298411 sq. km)
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.010542 N, 101.063727 W
Headwords:
Logan
Logan, KS
Logan County
Logan County, KS
Logan -- U.S. County in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 33924
Housing Units (2000): 13906
Land area (2000): 744.454032 sq. miles (1928.127010 sq. km)
Water
area (2000): 4.462816 sq. miles (11.558639 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 748.916848 sq. miles (1939.685649 sq. km)
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.893268 N, 97.442945 W
Headwords:
Logan
Logan, OK
Logan County
Logan County, OK
Logan -- U.S. County in Nebraska
Population (2000): 774
Housing Units (2000): 386
Land area (2000): 570.681199 sq. miles (1478.057458 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.464904 sq. miles (1.204095 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 571.146103 sq. miles (1479.261553 sq. km)
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 41.511919 N, 100.477611 W
Headwords:
Logan
Logan, NE
Logan County
Logan County, NE
Logan -- U.S. County in North Dakota
Population (2000): 2308
Housing Units (2000): 1193
Land area (2000): 992.641095 sq. miles (2570.928524 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 18.431223 sq. miles (47.736646 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1011.072318 sq. miles (2618.665170 sq. km)
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 46.463621 N, 99.505292 W
Headwords:
Logan
Logan, ND
Logan County
Logan County, ND
Logan -- U.S. County in Ohio
Population (2000): 46005
Housing Units (2000): 21571
Land area (2000): 458.438873 sq. miles (1187.351180 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 8.344845 sq. miles (21.613049 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 466.783718 sq. miles (1208.964229 sq. km)
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.391662 N, 83.786787 W
Headwords:
Logan
Logan, OH
Logan County
Logan County, OH
Logan -- U.S. County in West Virginia
Population (2000): 37710
Housing Units (2000): 16807
Land area (2000): 454.213978 sq. miles (1176.408753 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.397386 sq. miles (3.619213 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 455.611364 sq. miles (1180.027966 sq. km)
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 37.839786 N, 81.951553 W
Headwords:
Logan
Logan, WV
Logan County
Logan County, WV
Logan -- U.S. County in Colorado
Population (2000): 20504
Housing Units (2000): 8424
Land area (2000): 1838.523726 sq. miles (4761.754388 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 6.333405 sq. miles (16.403444 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1844.857131 sq. miles (4778.157832 sq. km)
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 40.663118 N, 103.129586 W
Headwords:
Logan
Logan, CO
Logan County
Logan County, CO
Logan -- U.S. County in Arkansas
Population (2000): 22486
Housing Units (2000): 9942
Land area (2000): 709.872961 sq. miles (1838.562451 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 21.630633 sq. miles (56.023081 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 731.503594 sq. miles (1894.585532 sq. km)
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.220758 N, 93.755313 W
Headwords:
Logan
Logan, AR
Logan County
Logan County, AR
Logan, NM -- U.S. village in New Mexico
Population (2000): 1094
Housing Units (2000): 1010
Land area (2000): 7.958741 sq. miles (20.613044 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.473917 sq. miles (1.227439 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.432658 sq. miles (21.840483 sq. km)
FIPS code: 42040
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 35.361492 N, 103.447733 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 88426
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Logan, NM
Logan
Logan, OH -- U.S. city in Ohio
Population (2000): 6704
Housing Units (2000): 2948
Land area (2000): 3.082084 sq. miles (7.982560 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.082084 sq. miles (7.982560 sq. km)
FIPS code: 44632
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.539159 N, 82.406108 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 43138
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Logan, OH
Logan
Logan, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 1545
Housing Units (2000): 660
Land area (2000): 1.014553 sq. miles (2.627681 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.014553 sq. miles (2.627681 sq. km)
FIPS code: 46155
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.644614 N, 95.789931 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 51546
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Logan, IA
Logan
Logan, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 603
Housing Units (2000): 304
Land area (2000): 1.511913 sq. miles (3.915836 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.511913 sq. miles (3.915836 sq. km)
FIPS code: 42100
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.662269 N, 99.571160 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 67646
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Logan, KS
Logan
Logan, UT -- U.S. city in Utah
Population (2000): 42670
Housing Units (2000): 14692
Land area (2000): 16.518130 sq. miles (42.781759 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.536339 sq. miles (1.389112 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 17.054469 sq. miles (44.170871 sq. km)
FIPS code: 45860
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 41.737878 N, 111.830846 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 84321
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Headwords:
Logan, UT
Logan
Logan, WV -- U.S. city in West Virginia
Population (2000): 1630
Housing Units (2000): 965
Land area (2000): 1.161346 sq. miles (3.007873 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.101937 sq. miles (0.264016 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.263283 sq. miles (3.271889 sq. km)
FIPS code: 48148
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 37.848381 N, 81.987651 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Logan, WV
Logan
Logaoedic (a.) (Gr. Pros.) Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement like that of ordinary speech.
Logarithm (n.) (Math.) One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division.
Note: The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus, 0 1 2 3 4 Indices or logarithms 1 10 100 1000 10,000 Numbers in geometrical progression Hence, the logarithm of any given number is the exponent of a power to which another given invariable number, called the base, must be raised in order to produce that given number. Thus, let 10 be the base, then 2 is the logarithm of 100, because 10^{2 = 100, and 3 is the logarithm of 1,000, because 10^{3 = 1,000.
Arithmetical complement of a logarithm, The difference between a logarithm and the number ten.
Binary logarithms. See under Binary.
Common logarithms, or Brigg's logarithms, Logarithms of which the base is 10; -- so called from Henry Briggs, who invented them.
Gauss's logarithms, Tables of logarithms constructed for facilitating the operation of finding the logarithm of the sum of difference of two quantities from the logarithms of the quantities, one entry of those tables and two additions or subtractions answering the purpose of three entries of the common tables and one addition or subtraction. They were suggested by the celebrated German mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss (died in 1855), and are of great service in many astronomical computations.
Hyperbolic logarithm or Napierian logarithm or Natural logarithm, A logarithm (devised by John Speidell, 1619) of which the base is e (2.718281828459045...); -- so called from Napier, the inventor of logarithms.
Logistic logarithms or Proportional logarithms, See under Logistic. Logarithmetic
Logarithm (n.) The exponent required to produce a given number [syn: logarithm, log].
Logarithm (n.) [ C ] (informal log) 對數 The number that shows how many times a number, called the base, has to be multiplied by itself to produce another number. Adding or taking away logarithms can replace multiplying or dividing large numbers.
Logarithmetic (a.) Alt. of Logarithmetical
Logarithmetical (a.) See Logarithmic.
Logarithmetically (adv.) Logarithmically. Logarithmic
Logarithmic (a.) Alt. of Logarithmical.
Logarithmical (a.) Of or pertaining to logarithms; consisting of logarithms.
Logarithmical (a.) Using logarithms; as, logarithmic graph paper; a logarithmic scale.
Logarithmical (a.) Having a logarithm in one or more of the unknowns; -- of an equation.
Logarithmic curve (Math.), A curve which, referred to a system of rectangular coordinate axes, is such that the ordinate of any point will be the logarithm of its abscissa.
Logarithmic spiral, A spiral curve such that radii drawn from its pole or eye at equal angles with each other are in continual proportion. See Spiral.
Logarithmic (a.) Of or relating to or using logarithms; "logarithmic function."
Logarithmically (adv.) By the use of logarithms.
Logarithmically (adv.) In a logarithmic manner; "data plotted logarithmically with respect to time is shown in Figure 2."
Log-chip (n.) (Naut.) A thin, flat piece of board in the form of a quadrant of a circle attached to the log line; -- called also log-ship. See 2d Log, n., 2.
Compare: Pileate
Pileate, Pileated (a.) Having the form of a cap for the head.
Pileate, Pileated (a.) (Zool.) Having a crest covering the pileus, or whole top of the head.
Pileated woodpecker (Zool.), A large American woodpecker ({Ceophloeus pileatus). It is black, with a bright red pointed crest. Called also logcock, and woodcock.
Logcock (n.) The pileated woodpecker.
Loge (n.) A lodge; a habitation. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Loge (n.) Balcony consisting of the forward section of a theater mezzanine.
Loge (n.) Private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance; "the royal box was empty" [syn: box, loge].
Loggan (n.) See Logan.
Loggat (n.) A small log or piece of wood. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Loggat (n.) pl. An old game in England, played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake set in the ground. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Logge (n. & v.) See Lodge. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Logged (a.) Made slow and heavy in movement; water-logged. -- Beaconsfield.
Logged (a.) Entered in a logbook.
Logger (n.) One engaged in logging. See Log, v. i. [U.S.] -- Lowell.
Logger (n.) A person who fells trees [syn: lumberman, lumberjack, logger, feller, faller].
Loggerhead (n.) A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull. -- Shak. Milton.
Loggerhead (n.) A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle, used to heat tar.
Loggerhead (n.) (Naut.) An upright piece of round timber, in a whaleboat, over which a turn of the line is taken when it is running out too fast. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Loggerhead (n.) (Zool.) A very large marine turtle ({Thalassochelys caretta syn. Thalassochelys caouana), common in the warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Cape Cod; -- called also logger-headed turtle.
Loggerhead (n.) (Zool.) An American shrike ({Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike.
To be at loggerheads, To fall to loggerheads, or To go to loggerheads, to quarrel; to be at strife. -- L' Estrange.
Steamer (n.) A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.
Steamer (n.) A steam fire engine. See under Steam.
Steamer (n.) A road locomotive for use on common roads, as in agricultural operations.
Steamer (n.) A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, in cookery, and in various processes of manufacture.
Steamer (n.) (Zool.) The steamer duck.
Steamer duck (Zool.), A sea duck ({Tachyeres cinereus"> Steamer duck (Zool.), a sea duck ({Tachyeres cinereus), native of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego, which swims and dives with great agility, but which, when full grown, is incapable of flight, owing to its very small wings. Called also loggerhead, race horse, and side-wheel duck.
Loggerhead (n.) A stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence [syn: dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, dumbass, fuckhead].
Loggerhead (n.) Very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas [syn: loggerhead, loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta].
Loggerheaded (a.) Dull; stupid. -- Shak.
A rabble of loggerheaded physicians. -- Urquhart.
Loggerheaded (a.) (used informally) stupid [syn: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick, thickheaded, thick-skulled, wooden-headed].
Loggerheads (n.) (Bot.) The knapweed.
Loggia (n.) (Arch.) A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room.
Loggia (n.) A roofed arcade or gallery with open sides stretching along the front or side of a building; often at an upper level.
Logging (n.) The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.
Logging (n.) The work of cutting down trees for timber.
Logic (n.) The science or art of exact reasoning, or of pure and formal thought, or of the laws according to which the processes of pure thinking should be conducted; the science of the formation and application of general notions; the science of generalization, judgment, classification, reasoning, and systematic arrangement; correct reasoning.
Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought; that is, of the necessary conditions to which thought, considered in itself, is subject. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Note: Logic is distinguished as pure and applied. "Pure logic is a science of the form, or of the formal laws, of thinking, and not of the matter. Applied logic teaches the application of the forms of thinking to those objects about which men do think." -- Abp. Thomson.
Logic (n.) A treatise on logic; as, Mill's Logic.
Logic (n.) correct reasoning; as, I can't see any logic in his argument; also, sound judgment; as, the logic of surrender was uncontestable.
Logic (n.) The path of reasoning used in any specific argument; as, his logic was irrefutable.
Logic (n.) (Electronics, Computers) A function of an electrical circuit (called a gate) that mimics certain elementary binary logical operations on electrical signals, such as AND, OR, or NOT; as, a logic circuit; the arithmetic and logic unit.
Logic (n.) The branch of philosophy that analyzes inference.
Logic (n.) Reasoned and reasonable judgment; "it made a certain kind of logic."
Logic (n.) The principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation; "economic logic requires it"; "by the logic of war."
Logic (n.) The system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations.
Logic (n.) A system of reasoning [syn: logic, logical system, system of logic].
Logic, () A branch of philosophy and mathematics that deals with the formal principles, methods and criteria of validity of inference, reasoning and knowledge.
Logic is concerned with what is true and how we can know whether something is true. This involves the formalisation of logical arguments and proofs in terms of symbols representing propositions and logical connectives. The meanings of these logical connectives are expressed by a set of rules which are assumed to be self-evident.
Boolean algebra deals with the basic operations of truth values: AND, OR, NOT and combinations thereof. Predicate logic extends this with existential and universal quantifiers and symbols standing for predicates which may depend on variables. The rules of natural deduction describe how we may proceed from valid premises to valid conclusions, where the premises and conclusions are expressions in predicate logic.
Symbolic logic uses a meta-language concerned with truth, which may or may not have a corresponding expression in the world of objects called existance. In symbolic logic, arguments and proofs are made in terms of symbols representing propositions and logical connectives. The meanings of these begin with a set of rules or primitives which are assumed to be self-evident. Fortunately, even from vague primitives, functions can be defined with precise meaning.
Boolean logic deals with the basic operations of truth values: AND, OR, NOT and combinations thereof. Predicate logic extends this with existential quantifiers and universal quantifiers which introduce bound variables ranging over finite sets; the predicate itself takes on only the values true and false. Deduction describes how we may proceed from valid premises to valid conclusions, where these are expressions in predicate logic.
Carnap used the phrase "rational reconstruction" to describe the logical analysis of thought. Thus logic is less concerned with how thought does proceed, which is considered the realm of psychology, and more with how it should proceed to discover truth. It is the touchstone of the results of thinking, but neither its regulator nor a motive for its practice.
See also fuzzy logic, logic programming, arithmetic and logic unit, first-order logic, See also Boolean logic, fuzzy logic, logic programming, first-order logic, logic bomb, combinatory logic, higher-order logic, intuitionistic logic, equational logic, modal logic, linear logic, paradox.
Logic, () Boolean logic circuits.
See also arithmetic and logic unit, asynchronous logic, TTL.
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Logic, (n.) The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion -- thus: _Major Premise_: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. _Minor Premise_: One man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds; therefore -- _Conclusion_: Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second. This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.
Logical (a.) Of or pertaining to logic; used in logic; as, logical subtilties. -- Bacon.