Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 46
Logical (a.) According to the
rules of logic; as, a logical argument or inference; the reasoning is logical ;
a logical argument; a logical impossibility. -- Prior.
Logical
(a.) Skilled in logic; versed in the art of thinking and
reasoning; as, he is a logical thinker. -- Addison.
Logical (a.) Capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning; "a logical mind" [ant: illogical, unlogical].
Logical (a.) Based on known statements or events or conditions; "rain was a logical expectation, given the time of year" [syn: legitimate, logical].
Logical (a.) Marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts; "a coherent argument" [syn: coherent, consistent, logical, ordered] [ant: incoherent].
Logical (a.) Capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner; "a lucid thinker"; "she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident" [syn: coherent, logical, lucid].
Logical (a.) [from the technical term logical device, wherein a physical device is referred to by an arbitrary ?logical? name] Having the role of. If a person (say, Les Earnest at SAIL) who had long held a certain post left and were replaced, the replacement would for a while be known as the logical Les Earnest. (This does not imply any judgment on the replacement.) Compare { virtual. At Stanford, ?logical? compass directions denote a coordinate system relative to El Camino Real, in which ?logical north? is always toward San Francisco and ?logical south? is always toward San Jose--in spite of the fact that El Camino Real runs physical north/south near San Francisco, physical east/west near San Jose, and along a curve everywhere in between.
(The best rule of thumb here is that, by definition, El Camino Real always runs logical north-south.)
In giving directions, one might say: ?To get to Rincon Tarasco restaurant, get onto El Camino Bignum going logical north.? Using the word ?logical? helps to prevent the recipient from worrying about that the fact that the sun is setting almost directly in front of him. The concept is reinforced by North American highways which are almost, but not quite, consistently labeled with logical rather than physical directions. A similar situation exists at MIT: Route 128 (famous for the electronics industry that grew up along it) wraps roughly 3 quarters around Boston at a radius of 10 miles, terminating near the coastline at each end. It would be most precise to describe the two directions along this highway as ?clockwise? and ?counterclockwise?, but the road signs all say ?north? and ?south?, respectively. A hacker might describe these directions as logical north and logical south, to indicate that they are conventional directions not corresponding to the usual denotation for those words.
Logical, () (From the technical term "logical device", wherein a physical device is referred to by an arbitrary "logical" name) Having the role of. If a person (say, Les Earnest at SAIL) who had long held a certain post left and were replaced, the replacement would for a while be known as the "logical" Les Earnest. (This does not imply any judgment on the replacement).
Compare virtual.
At Stanford, "logical" compass directions denote a coordinate system in which "logical north" is toward San Francisco, "logical west" is toward the ocean, etc., even though logical north varies between physical (true) north near San Francisco and physical west near San Jose. (The best rule of thumb here is that, by definition, El Camino Real always runs logical north-and-south.) In giving directions, one might say: "To get to Rincon Tarasco restaurant, get onto El Camino Bignum going logical north." Using the word "logical" helps to prevent the recipient from worrying about that the fact that the sun is setting almost directly in front of him. The concept is reinforced by North American highways which are almost, but not quite, consistently labelled with logical rather than physical directions.
A similar situation exists at MIT: Route 128 (famous for the electronics industry that has grown up along it) is a 3-quarters circle surrounding Boston at a radius of 10 miles, terminating near the coastline at each end. It would be most precise to describe the two directions along this highway as "clockwise" and "counterclockwise", but the road signs all say "north" and "south", respectively. A hacker might describe these directions as "logical north" and "logical south", to indicate that they are conventional directions not corresponding to the usual denotation for those words. (If you went logical south along the entire length of route 128, you would start out going northwest, curve around to the south, and finish headed due east, passing along one infamous stretch of pavement that is simultaneously route 128 south and Interstate 93 north, and is signed as such!)
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Logicality (n.) Logicalness.
Logicality (n.) Correct and valid reasoning [syn: logicality, logicalness] [ant: illogic, illogicality, illogicalness, inconsequence].
Logically (adv.) In a logical manner; as, to argue logically.
Logically (adv.) According to logical reasoning; "logically, you should now do the same to him".
Logically (adv.) In a logical manner; "he acted logically under the circumstances" [ant: illogically].
Logicalness (n.) The quality of being logical.
Logicalness (n.) Correct and valid reasoning [syn: logicality, logicalness] [ant: illogic, illogicality, illogicalness, inconsequence].
Logician (n.) A person skilled in logic.
Logics (n.) See Logic.
Logistic (a.) Alt. of Logistical.
Logistical (a.) Logical.
Logistical (a.) Sexagesimal, or made on the scale of 60; as, logistic, or sexagesimal, arithmetic.
Logistics (n.) That branch of the military art which embraces the details of moving and supplying armies. The meaning of the word is by some writers extended to include strategy.
Logistics (n.) A system of arithmetic, in which numbers are expressed in a scale of 60; logistic arithmetic.
Logmen (n. pl. ) of Logman.
Logman (n.) A man who carries logs.
Logodaedaly (n.) Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words.
Logogram (n.) A word letter; a phonogram, that, for the sake of brevity, represents a word; as, |, i. e., t, for it. Cf. Grammalogue.
Logographer (n.) A chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences.
Logographer (n.) One skilled in logography.
Logographic (a.) Alt. of Logographical.
Logographical (a.) Of or pertaining to logography.
Logography (n.) A method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used.
Logography (n.) A mode of reporting speeches without using shorthand, -- a number of reporters, each in succession, taking down three or four words.
Logogriph (n.) A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its letters, which form other words; -- thus, to discover the chosen word chatter form cat, hat, rat, hate, rate, etc.
Logomachist (n.) One who contends about words.
Logomachy (n.) 對詞義的爭執；字謎遊戲 Contention in words merely, or a contention about words; a war of words.
Logomachy (n.) A game of word making.
Logomachy (n.) Argument about words or the meaning of words.
Logomachy (n.) [(pl.) {Logomachies}] A dispute over or about words.
Logomachy (n.) a controversy marked by verbiage.
Logometric (a.) Serving to measure or ascertain chemical equivalents; stoichiometric.
Logos (n.) A word; reason; speech.
Logos (n.) The divine Word; Christ.
Logothete () An accountant; under Constantine, an officer of the empire; a receiver of revenue; an administrator of a department.
Logotype (n.) (Print.) 【印】連合活體；（路標等用的）標識；商標 A single type, containing two or more letters; as, [ae], \[oe], [AE], [filig], [fllig], [ffllig], etc.; -- called also ligature.
Logotype (n.) A company emblem or device [syn: logo, logotype].
Logroll (v. i. & t.) To engage in logrolling; to accomplish by logrolling.
Logroller (n.) One who engages in logrolling.
Logrolling (n.) The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn.
Logrolling (n.) Hence: A combining to assist another in consideration of receiving assistance in return; -- sometimes used of a disreputable mode of accomplishing political schemes or ends.
Log-ship (n.) A part of the log. See Log-chip, and 2d Log, n., 2.
Logwood (n.) The heartwood of a tree (Haematoxylon Campechianum), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called haematoxylin, and is used largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called Campeachy wood, and bloodwood.
-logy () A combining form denoting a discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science; as, theology, geology, biology, mineralogy.
Logy (a.) Heavy or dull in respect to motion or thought; as, a logy horse.
Lohock (n.) See Loch, a medicine.
Loimic (a.) Of or pertaining to the plague or contagious disorders.
Loin (n.) That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of Beef.
Loir (n.) A large European dormouse (Myoxus glis).
Loitered (imp. & p. p.) of Loiter.
Loitering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loiter.
Loiter (v. i.) To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
Loiter (v. i.) To wander as an idle vagrant.
Loiterer (n.) One who loiters; an idler.
Loiterer (n.) An idle vagrant; a tramp.
Loiteringly (adv.) In a loitering manner.
Lok (n.) Alt. of Loki.
Loki (n.) The evil deity, the author of all calamities and mischief, answering to the African of the Persians.
Locao (n.) A green vegetable dye imported from China.
Loke (n.) A private path or road; also, the wicket or hatch of a door.
Lokorys (n.) Liquorice.
Loligo (n.) A genus of cephalopods, including numerous species of squids, common on the coasts of America and Europe. They are much used for fish bait.
Lolled (imp. & p. p.) of Loll.
Lolling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loll.
Loll (v. i.) To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.
Loll (v. i.) To hand extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or a log when heated with labor or exertion.
Loll (v. i.) To let the tongue hang from the mouth, as an ox, dog, or other animal, when heated by labor; as, the ox stood lolling in the furrow.
Loll (v. t.) To let hang from the mouth, as the tongue.
Lollard (n.) One of a sect of early reformers in Germany.
Lollard (n.) One of the followers of Wyclif in England.
Lollardism (n.) Alt. of Lollardy.
Lollardy (n.) The doctrines or principles of the Lollards.
Loller (n.) One who lolls.
Loller (n.) An idle vagabond.
Loller (n.) A Lollard.
Lollingly (adv.) In a lolling manner.
Lollipop (n.) A kind of sugar confection which dissolves easily in the mouth.
Lollop (v. i.) To move heavily; to lounge or idle; to loll.
Lollygag (v. i.) 【美】【俚】浪費光陰 Be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?" [syn: {loiter}, {lounge}, {footle}, {lollygag}, {loaf}, {lallygag}, {hang around}, {mess about}, {tarry}, {linger}, {lurk}, {mill about}, {mill around}].
Lollygag (v. i.) To spend time idly, aimlessly, or foolishly : dawdle.
Lomata (n. pl. ) of Loma.
Loma (n.) A lobe; a membranous fringe or flap.
Lomatinous (a.) Furnished with lobes or flaps.
Lombard (a.) Of or pertaining to Lombardy, or the inhabitants of Lombardy.
Lombard (n.) A native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
Lombard (n.) A money lender or banker; -- so called because the business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards.
Lombard (n.) Same as Lombard-house.
Lombard (n.) A form of cannon formerly in use.
Lombardeer (n.) A pawnbroker.
Lombard-house (n.) Alt. of Lombar-house.
Lombar-house (n.) A bank or a pawnbroker's shop.
Lombar-house (n.) A public institution for lending money to the poor at a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged; -- called also mont de piete.
Lombardic (a.) Of or pertaining to Lombardy of the Lombards.
Loment (n.) An elongated pod, consisting, like the legume, of two valves, but divided transversely into small cells, each containing a single seed.
Lomentaceous (a.) Of the nature of a loment; having fruits like loments.
Lomonite (n.) Same as Laumontite.
Lompish (a.) Lumpish.
Lond (n.) Land.
London (n.) The capital city of England.
Londoner (n.) A native or inhabitant of London.
Londonism (n.) A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.
Londonize (v. i.) To impart to (one) a manner or character like that which distinguishes Londoners.
Londonize (v. i.) To imitate the manner of the people of London.
Lone (n.) A lane. See Loanin.
Lone (a.) Being without a companion; being by one's self; also, sad from lack of companionship; lonely; as, a lone traveler or watcher.
Lone (a.) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
Lone (a.) Being apart from other things of the kind; being by itself; also, apart from human dwellings and resort; as, a lone house.
Lone (a.) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.