Stump vs. Log — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Stump and Log
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Definitions
Stump
The part of a tree trunk left protruding from the ground after the tree has fallen or has been felled.
Log
A part of the trunk or a large branch of a tree that has fallen or been cut off
A roaring log fire
She tripped over a fallen log
Stump
A part, as of a branch, limb, or tooth, remaining after the main part has been cut away, broken off, or worn down.
Log
An official record of events during the voyage of a ship or aircraft
A ship's log
Stump
Stumps(Informal) The legs.
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Log
An apparatus for determining the speed of a ship, originally one consisting of a float attached to a knotted line that is wound on a reel, the distance run out in a certain time being used as an estimate of the vessel's speed.
Stump
An artificial leg.
Log
The Ranfurly Shield, an interprovincial rugby union trophy competed for annually in New Zealand
Errors late in the game cost them a shot at the log of wood
Stump
(Derogatory) A short, thickset person.
Log
Short for logarithm
Log x
Log values
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Stump
A heavy footfall.
Log
Enter (an incident or fact) in the log of a ship or aircraft or in another systematic record
The incident has to be logged
Stump
A place or an occasion used for political or campaign oratory
Candidates out on the stump.
Log
Cut down (an area of forest) in order to exploit the timber commercially
There are plans to log 250,000 hectares of virgin rainforest
Stump
A short, pointed roll of leather or paper or wad of rubber for rubbing on a charcoal or pencil drawing to shade or soften it.
Log
A usually large section of a trunk or limb of a fallen or felled tree.
Stump
(Sports) Any of the three upright sticks in a cricket wicket.
Log
A long thick section of trimmed, unhewn timber.
Stump
To reduce to a stump.
Log
A device trailed from a ship to determine its speed through the water.
Stump
To clear stumps from
Stump a field.
Log
A record of a ship's speed, its progress, and any shipboard events of navigational importance.
Stump
To stub (a toe or foot).
Log
The book in which this record is kept.
Stump
To walk over heavily or clumsily.
Log
A record of a vehicle's performance, as the flight record of an aircraft.
Stump
To traverse (a district or region) making political speeches.
Log
A record, as of the performance of a machine or the progress of an undertaking
A computer log.
A trip log.
Stump
To shade (a drawing) with a stump.
Log
A logarithm.
Stump
To challenge (someone); dare.
Log
To cut down, trim, and haul the timber of (a piece of land).
Stump
To cause to be at a loss; baffle
Stumped the teacher with a question.
Log
To cut (timber) into unhewn sections.
Stump
To walk heavily or clumsily.
Log
To enter in a record, as of a ship or an aircraft.
Stump
To go about making political speeches.
Log
To travel (a specified distance, time, or speed)
Logged 30,000 air miles in April.
Stump
The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
Log
To spend or accumulate (time)
Had logged 25 years with the company.
Stump
(politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
Log
To cut down, trim, and haul timber.
Stump
(figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
Log
The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.
They walked across the stream on a fallen log.
Stump
(cricket) One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
Log
Any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc.
Stump
(drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
Log
Anything shaped like a log; a cylinder.
Stump
A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
Log
(nautical) A floating device, usually of wood, used in navigation to estimate the speed of a vessel through water.
Stump
A leg.
To stir one's stumps
Log
(figuratively) A blockhead; a very stupid person.
Stump
A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key.
Log
A heavy longboard.
Stump
A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
Log
(figuratively) A rolled cake with filling.
Stump
To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
Log
(mining) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
Stump
To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
This last question has me stumped.
Log
(vulgar) A piece of feces.
Stump
(intransitive) To campaign.
He’s been stumping for that reform for months.
Log
(vulgar) A penis.
Stump
To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
Log
A logbook, or journal of a vessel's (or aircraft's) progress.
Stump
To get a batsman out stumped.
Log
A chronological record of actions, performances, computer/network usage, etc.
Stump
To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
Log
(computer science) Specifically, an append-only sequence of records written to file.
Stump
(intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
Log
A Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 3{{nbsp}}liter).
Stump
(transitive) To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
Log
Synonym of logarithm. Category:en:Functions
To multiply two numbers, add their logs.
Stump
(transitive) To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.
Log
(sciences) A difference of one in the logarithm, usually in base 10; an order of magnitude.
Stump
The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.
Log
(transitive) To cut trees into logs.
Stump
The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom.
Log
(transitive) To cut down (trees).
Stump
The legs; as, to stir one's stumps.
Log
(intransitive) To cut down trees in an area, harvesting and transporting the logs as wood.
Stump
One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
Log
(transitive) To make, to add an entry (or more) in a log or logbook.
To log the miles travelled by a ship
Stump
A short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc., in powder.
Log
(transitive) To travel (a distance) as shown in a logbook.
Stump
A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt, except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
Log
(transitive) To travel at a specified speed, as ascertained by a chip log.
Stump
To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.
Around the stumped top soft moss did grow.
Log
A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills.
Stump
To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub.
Log
A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.
Stump
To challenge; also, to nonplus.
Log
An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.
Stump
To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; - sometimes with out.
A herd of boys with clamor bowled,And stumped the wicket.
Log
The record of the rate of speed of a ship or airplane, and of the course of its progress for the duration of a voyage; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book.
Stump
To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.
Log
A record and tabulated statement of the person(s) operating, operations performed, resources consumed, and the work done by any machine, device, or system.
Stump
The base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled
Log
A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
Stump
The part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed
Log
A record of activities performed within a program, or changes in a database or file on a computer, and typically kept as a file in the computer.
Stump
(cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket
Log
To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run.
Stump
A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
Log
To record any event in a logbook, especially an event relating to the operation of a machine or device.
Stump
Cause to be perplexed or confounded;
This problem stumped her
Log
To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs.
Stump
Walk heavily;
The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots
Log
To move to and fro; to rock.
Stump
Travel through a district and make political speeches;
The candidate stumped the Northeast
Log
A segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches
Stump
Remove tree stumps from;
Stump a field
Log
Large log at the back of a hearth fire
Log
The exponent required to produce a given number
Log
A written record of messages sent or received;
They kept a log of all transmission by the radio station
An email log
Log
A written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane)
Log
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
Log
Enter into a log, as on ships and planes
Log
Cut lumber, as in woods and forests
