I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a coal/wood/log fire
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There was a coal fire in the sitting room.
as easy as pie/ABC/falling off a log (= very easy )
log book
log cabin
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a log cabin
log cabin
log off a computer (= stop using a computer system that requires a password )
log onto a computer (= start using it by typing a password )
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Next time you log onto your computer, you will have to use a new password.
sleep like a log ( also sleep like a baby ) informal (= sleep very well )
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I was exhausted and slept like a log.
yule log
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
book
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I wish to apply for the log book to retain the original suffix.
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She puts the folder down and picks up the log book .
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Hence you can store dive profiles on print out copies for your log book .
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Sometimes, they also must present a log book that verifies their experience.
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But from the log books of 100 years ago, there is a very vivid picture of school life in Bentley.
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He wrote long outlandish tales about himself in the log book and signed them Anon.
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And here in Hatton's log book was the Leeds trip confirmed.
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Leese and I went to the operations tent to drop off the dash-twelve page from the log book .
books
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But from the log books of 100 years ago, there is a very vivid picture of school life in Bentley.
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Watch out for log books which tell you that the first owner was Engineering Educational Trust.
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Housing log books and an end to gazumping will also help home buyers.
cabin
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The reality of a painted postcard of a log cabin and box of arrowheads disappeared.
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How a self-made man should always say he was born in something like a log cabin , preferably with no running water.
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The path led to a log cabin with a chalet-style sloping roof in the middle of a clearing.
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Sometimes I am in the log cabin , looking at it; other times I am wandering through it.
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Genuine pre-fab log cabins hitched up to the mains.
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They settled in Prairieville in Barry County, cleared land, and put up a log cabin and later a proper house.
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He lived alone in a log cabin beside the lake, his only company a portable radio and television.
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We stopped at the Association of Pioneer Women of California log cabin , and their garish statue.
file
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An example log file for Type Module is shown in Section 10.4.6.
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This file is called the log file.
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If the transaction is successful, then nothing further is added to the log file .
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Check the report log file , ABLE-REPORT.LOG, for errors which may have occurred earlier and resolve these.
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Most user and system activity was captured and stored in machine-readable log files .
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If the primary log file is flawed then the software performing the rebuild operation will switch to the reserve log.
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If no input is made then the log file name defaults to LIFESPAN-PI.LOG.
fire
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Here we are, by a redolent log fire , in a world which has slipped from sight.
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An old pub with beamed ceilings, smoke-blackened, and a log fire crackling and spitting inside a deep alcove.
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The beamed lounge with its log fire is elegantly furnished in a country-house style.
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He then escorted us to the morning room, where we were greeted by a large log fire .
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Comfort, quality and log fires .
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The artificial log fire was burning brightly.
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The four-course evening meal is served by candlelight and afterwards coffee is served in the drawing room by a log fire .
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A log fire roared in the open hearth, spitting out sparks.
incident
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See preceding error message in the incident log file for a fuller explanation of the error encountered.
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Check the incident log file for errors which may have occurred earlier and resolve these.
jam
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The fingers of her other hand stretched and pressed, but the log jam was centred just out of reach.
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The contrasurvival engram is to the dynamics like a log jam which dams a necessary river.
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Upriver came a rumble and boom like the dynamite explosions that broke up the log jams .
■ VERB
build
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Structures were built of logs , the ends cut and dovetailed.
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Two styles of Navajo hogans were built from logs patted with mud.
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Constructed in a hexagon shape, it had been built of logs , now darkened with age.
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Lucenzo built a log fire in the big medieval fireplace, and they sat burning their toes on the stone hearth.
fall
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For a termite, home is a fallen log .
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The alternative was to shimmy across a fallen log .
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Sharpe went slowly, threading the horse between the ancient trunks and past fallen , moss-covered logs .
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The taciturn Tor falls off his log and eventually complains of painful stomach muscles.
keep
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This can be done by regularly keeping a written learning log .
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Skydivers keep logs of their times for certification.
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The very activity of keeping a log focuses attention on how you have used your time.
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One of the youthful survivors, Chuck Gieg, had kept a log of the fateful voyage.
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Some people are dismayed when they first start to keep a log .
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All students keep work-site logs and journals, which become the basis for classroom discussions.
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I meet every evening with the other members of the team and we keep a daily log of our activities and sightings.
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The students keep logs of their exercise and eating.
put
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He put logs on the fire and the flames crackled up.
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Alice complimented her, watching Mattie put more logs in the living room fireplace.
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I put a trimmed log in its place, to be taken up by the stair.
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Next evening, two of the kids put a log in the water and tried to sail to the Manhattan shore.
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He puts some logs into the small drum, douses them with gasoline, and throws in a match.
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They settled in Prairieville in Barry County, cleared land, and put up a log cabin and later a proper house.
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Another way to serve it is to put out the whole log and let people cut off pieces.
sit
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Bitterly disappointed, she sat on the log .
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I sit on a log next to the fire, trying to warm my feet.
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A hundred or so houses sit on log stilts.
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The teacher told the girls to sit on a log on the third-base line and then she returned to the school.
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I sat on a log among the shadows of creatures now extinct and others long since departed for pasture in the south.
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Out on the water, a man sat motionless on a log raft, holding one end of a line.
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They sat round a huge log fire, the flickering flames casting long shadows against the far wall.
sleep
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I sleep like a log and never get indigestion.
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The nights in Denver are cool, and I slept like a log .
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Mrs Plummer was right about that; he slept like a log .
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They fussed around until the doctor left, when everything went deathly quiet, and I slept like a log until morning.
throw
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He began to throw the split logs into the back of the pick-up.
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Archer stooped over and threw a log upon the embers.
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It is cool outside as I throw a log on the gently breathing embers.
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The captain would throw a log overboard and observe how quickly the ship receded from this temporary guidepost.
write
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After-images of new and modified blocks are written to twin log files.
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Rex wrote up his nature log .
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I secured the locks on the wheelbarrow, crawled under canvas and wrote up the log and two letters.
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VanDerveer has documented the whole experience, taping a personal journal and writing down a workout log .
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Finally, I finished a recording for home and wrote up the log .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
it's as easy as falling off a log
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Alice had to write up a detailed log of the trip, complete with scientific data.
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He complained to a senior officer, who made a note in the ship's log .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few cluster flies found the warm logs and sat on them.
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Mark logs and milled lumber from the older trees, giving consumers a choice of boycott.
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Meanwhile, an event log shows a listing of events and breakpoint messages.
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This is done to prevent the process log becoming too large.
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What she did not mention in her log was that she had found a bottle of liquor that Bill had stashed away.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
in
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Passwords can then be changed so original users can't log in .
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You Once you've logged in with your password, checking out is as straight forward as following the prompts.
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A muffled crackle splutters out from a walkie-talkie inside his jacket, and he pulls it out to log in .
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The other way is obvious as soon as you log in .
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Having entered the details above, you're ready to log in .
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Psions logged in , and battle commenced.
off
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If that looks dodgy, log off , ten back on.
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Make sure all Oedipus users are logged off .
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But dot.com firms are falling like flies, and disillusioned users are logging off .
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Try logging off and logging on again.
on
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At the time she was logged on at another computer in the station, working on an application form.
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As more people log on , they experience frustrating delays.
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Oh sure, you log on , the computer crashes-how relaxed are you going to be then?
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The better operations will provide you with software that makes it easy to sign up and log on .
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Each user has a unique username and a password which must be used in order to log on to the network.
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The message contains an authentication token that allows users to log on to network services.
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Four Barclays customers reported that they could see other customers' account information when they logged on .
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The result has been that customers are often unable to log on to the system.
■ NOUN
call
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Data entry to log a call is virtually eliminated.
computer
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Then the identity and details of any information passed on will be logged on secure computer files in a numbers code.
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At the time she was logged on at another computer in the station, working on an application form.
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The contents of every breath the patient takes are logged in the computer monitoring his progress.
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Oh sure, you log on, the computer crashes-how relaxed are you going to be then?
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Members are invited to log on to their computers and call up the Heisei menu.
data
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More than ever, secondary schools looking for data-logging equipment have a vast range to choose from.
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Of course, some data are logged automatically and exist only in electronic form.
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The data-logging work also involves a good range of sensors, not just the usual probes of temperature and light.
forest
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It has already promised to ban logging in native forests .
hours
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The pilot had logged 95 hours , all on type.
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Khader works full time now at nation-building, sometimes logging 16 hours of work in a day.
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Resler and I flew one of those ships, logging six and eight hours daily.
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By the end of February she had managed to log only four hours in the Canuck.
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By late afternoon we had logged eight hours of flying time.
user
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Passwords can then be changed so original users can't log in.
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In the course of several days, the sniffer could gather information on local users logging into remote machines.
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If you have time available, try to get users to log out of the system before shutting it down.
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This, more than anything, helps prevent unauthorized users from logging into machines on the network.
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Go back to Connection Information and check that users are logging out.
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The message contains an authentication token that allows users to log on to network services.
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Make sure all Oedipus users are logged off.
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Unsuspecting and amateur users logging into remote hosts are the most vulnerable.
work
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The data-logging work also involves a good range of sensors, not just the usual probes of temperature and light.
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Khader works full time now at nation-building, sometimes logging 16 hours of work in a day.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All deliveries must be logged.
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By mid-July the INS had logged only 72 applications.
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The pilot had logged over 150 hours of flying time.
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The system can log the date and length of calls made by company employees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As more people log on, they experience frustrating delays.
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At the time she was logged on at another computer in the station, working on an application form.
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But for some countries trade in the wood is of direct benefit to the local people who log it.
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Khader works full time now at nation-building, sometimes logging 16 hours of work in a day.
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Of these, logging poses by far the most serious threat.
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When logged into his two-way communication system, you will be amazed at his love and understanding.
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Workers routinely logged twelve-hour days, and are doing so once again.