Logged

How to spell logged

6 letters · 1 syllable

How to pronounce logged

What does logged mean?

1. verbPast tense of log: to have officially recorded or entered information into a register or system.
2. verbPast tense of log: to have signed on to or off a computer system or account.
3. verbPast tense of log: to have cut down trees for timber.

Logged in a sentence

• The nurse logged every dose of medication in the patient's chart.

• She logged in to the database using her new password.

• The company logged the hillside before the new regulations took effect.

• He logged forty billable hours during the busy week.

• After finishing the report he logged off for the night.

• That valley was heavily logged throughout the last century.

Where does logged come from?

Language of origin: Germanic

The verb 'log' grew out of the noun 'log', a Middle English word of uncertain origin that first meant a bulky piece of felled tree trunk. Sailors later attached a flat piece of wood, the 'log', to a knotted line and threw it overboard to measure a ship's speed, and the written record of those readings became the 'logbook'. From keeping that book came the verb 'to log', meaning to enter something into an official record, first attested in the maritime sense in the 1800s. The past-tense form simply doubles the final consonant before adding -ed, giving 'logged', because the single short vowel in 'log' must be protected. In the twentieth century the same verb broadened to cover felling timber and, more recently, signing on to a computer system, as in 'logged in'.

How the word is built

• log (record/tally)
• -g- (doubled consonant)
• -ed (past tense suffix)