LOG

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Traducere în limba română

log I. substantiv

1. butuc, buştean, buturugă, trunchi, bârnă, grindă; material lemnos;

(saw) log buşteni de industrializare, lemn de gater;

(fam.) to stand like a log a rămâne buştean, a sta ca un buştean;

to fall like a log a cădea ca un buştean / butuc;

(you) roll my log and I'll roll yours ajută-mă şi te voi ajuta, dă-mi să-ţi dau, o mână spală pe alta (mai ales în legătură cu o politică de "do ut des", cu combinaţii politice dubioase);

(fig.) a King Log un om moale / mototol / mămăligos;

(amer.) to keep the log rolling a menţine un ritm viu / iute / accelerat de muncă;

(amer.) to split the log a lămuri, a clarifica, a elucida o problemă;

(amer.) to stand (up) to one's lick log a nu şovăi, a da dovadă de hotărâre / de fermitate.

2. (mar.) loch, loh;

to throw / to heave the log a arunca lochul;

to haul in the log a ridica lochul.

3. (ferov.) vitezometru.

4. (mine) diagramă; profilul sondei.

5. (mar.) jurnal de bord;

to write up the log a consemna în jurnalul de bord.

log II. verb tranzitiv

1. a tăia (copacii) buşteni, a face buşteni din;

to log a piece of forest a tăia şi a vinde copaci cu bucata dintr-o pădure însemnată.

2. (mar., despre vas) a face (un număr de noduri) pe oră.

3. (mar.) a trece / a consemna (fapte etc.) în jurnalul de bord.

4. (tel.) a prinde, a repera (o staţie).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

It was sitting on a log, not a foot beyond the end of his nose.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

When the hour came round again he went as usual on to the tan-heap in the garden to await the king’s daughter, but he felt even more overcome with weariness than on the two previous days, and throwing himself down, he slept like a log.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

The Doctor, who made as much of my going away as if I were going to China, received me as an honoured guest; and called for a log of wood to be thrown on the fire, that he might see the face of his old pupil reddening in the blaze.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

There’s many a man here, Rodney, continued my father, as he glanced about him, whose name may never find its way into any book save his own ship’s log, but who in his own way has set as fine an example as any admiral of them all.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As, in his puppyhood, the looming bulks of the tepees, man-reared, had affected him as manifestations of power, so was he affected now by the houses and the huge fort all of massive logs.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

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