Log vs. Record

Log vs. Record — Is There a Difference?

Difference Between Log and Record

Lognoun

A usually large section of a trunk or limb of a fallen or felled tree.

Recordverb

To set down for preservation in writing or other permanent form

She recorded her thoughts in a diary.

Lognoun

A long thick section of trimmed, unhewn timber.

Recordverb

To register or indicate

The clerk recorded the votes.

Lognoun

A device trailed from a ship to determine its speed through the water.

Recordverb

To render (sound or images) into permanent form for reproduction in a magnetic or electronic medium.

Lognoun

A record of a ship's speed, its progress, and any shipboard events of navigational importance.

Recordverb

To record the words, sound, appearance, or performance of (someone or something)

recorded the oldest townspeople on tape.recorded the violin concerto.

Lognoun

The book in which this record is kept.

Recordverb

To record something.

Lognoun

A record of a vehicle's performance, as the flight record of an aircraft.

Recordnoun

An account, as of information or facts, set down especially in writing as a means of preserving knowledge.

Lognoun

A record, as of the performance of a machine or the progress of an undertaking

a computer log.a trip log.

Recordnoun

Something on which such an account is based.

Lognoun

A logarithm.

Recordnoun

Something that records

a fossil record.

Logverb

To cut down, trim, and haul the timber of (a piece of land).

Recordnoun

Information or data on a particular subject collected and preserved

the coldest day on record.

Logverb

To cut (timber) into unhewn sections.

Recordnoun

The known history of performance, activities, or achievement

your academic record.hampered by a police record.

Logverb

To enter in a record, as of a ship or an aircraft.

Recordnoun

An unsurpassed measurement

a world record in weightlifting.a record for cold weather.

Logverb

To travel (a specified distance, time, or speed)

logged 30,000 air miles in April.

Recordnoun

(Computers) A collection of related, often adjacent items of data, treated as a unit.

Logverb

To spend or accumulate (time)

had logged 25 years with the company.

Recordnoun

(Law) A transcript or a collection of statements and related information reporting the proceedings of a legislative body, a court, or an executive.

Logverb

To cut down, trim, and haul timber.

Recordnoun

A disk designed to be played on a phonograph.

Lognoun

The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.

They walked across the stream on a fallen log.

Recordnoun

A musical recording that is issued on a medium of some kind.

Lognoun

Any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc.

Recordnoun

anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events;

the film provided a valuable record of stage techniques

Lognoun

Anything shaped like a log; a cylinder.

Recordnoun

the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had;

at 9-0 they have the best record in their league

Lognoun

(nautical) A floating device, usually of wood, used in navigation to estimate the speed of a vessel through water.

Recordnoun

an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport);

he tied the Olympic recordcoffee production last year broke all previous recordsChicago set the homicide record

Lognoun

(figuratively) A blockhead; a very stupid person.

Recordnoun

sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves

Lognoun

A longboard.

Recordnoun

the sum of recognized accomplishments;

the lawyer has a good recordthe track record shows that he will be a good president

Lognoun

(figuratively) A rolled cake with filling.

Recordnoun

a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted;

he ruled that the criminal record of the defendant could not be disclosed to the courtthe prostitute had a record a mile long

Lognoun

(mining) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.

Recordnoun

a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone;

Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record'his name is in all the recordbooks

Lognoun

(vulgar) A piece of feces.

Recordnoun

a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction;

they could find no record of the purchase

Lognoun

A logbook, or journal of a vessel (or aircraft)'s progress

Recordverb

make a record of; set down in permanent form

Lognoun

A chronological record of actions, performances, computer/network usage, etc.

Recordverb

register electronically;

They recorded her singing

Lognoun

(computer science) Specifically, an append-only sequence of records written to disk

Recordverb

indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments;

The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zeroThe gauge read `empty'

Lognoun

A Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about ⅓{{nbsp}}L).

Recordverb

be aware of;

Did you register any change when I pressed the button?

Lognoun

logarithm.

To multiply two numbers, add their logs.

Recordverb

be or provide a memorial to a person or an event;

This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration campsWe memorialized the Dead

Logverb

(transitive) To cut trees into logs.

Logverb

(transitive) To cut down (trees).

Logverb

(intransitive) To cut down trees in an area, harvesting and transporting the logs as wood.

Logverb

(transitive) To make, to add an entry (or more) in a log or logbook.

to log the miles travelled by a ship

Logverb

(transitive) To travel (a distance) as shown in a logbook

Logverb

(transitive) To travel at a specified speed, as ascertained by chip log.

Lognoun

a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches

Lognoun

large log at the back of a hearth fire

Lognoun

the exponent required to produce a given number

Lognoun

a written record of messages sent or received;

they kept a log of all transmission by the radio stationan email log

Lognoun

a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane)

Lognoun

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

Logverb

enter into a log, as on ships and planes

Logverb

cut lumber, as in woods and forests