Stump vs. Log — What's the Difference?

The part of a tree trunk left protruding from the ground after the tree has fallen or has been felled.

A part of the trunk or a large branch of a tree that has fallen or been cut off

A part, as of a branch, limb, or tooth, remaining after the main part has been cut away, broken off, or worn down.

An official record of events during the voyage of a ship or aircraft

Stumps(Informal) The legs.

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.

An artificial leg.

The Ranfurly Shield, an interprovincial rugby union trophy competed for annually in New Zealand

(Derogatory) A short, thickset person.

Short for logarithm

A heavy footfall.

Enter (an incident or fact) in the log of a ship or aircraft or in another systematic record

A place or an occasion used for political or campaign oratory

Cut down (an area of forest) in order to exploit the timber commercially

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.

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

(Sports) Any of the three upright sticks in a cricket wicket.

A long thick section of trimmed, unhewn timber.

To reduce to a stump.

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

To clear stumps from

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

To stub (a toe or foot).

The book in which this record is kept.

To walk over heavily or clumsily.

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

To traverse (a district or region) making political speeches.

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

To shade (a drawing) with a stump.

A logarithm.

To challenge (someone); dare.

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

To cause to be at a loss; baffle

To cut (timber) into unhewn sections.

To walk heavily or clumsily.

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

To go about making political speeches.

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

The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.

To spend or accumulate (time)

(politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.

To cut down, trim, and haul timber.

(figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.

The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.

(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.

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

(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.

Anything shaped like a log; a cylinder.

A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.

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

A leg.

(figuratively) A blockhead; a very stupid person.

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 heavy longboard.

A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.

(figuratively) A rolled cake with filling.

To stop, confuse, or puzzle.

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

To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.

(vulgar) A piece of feces.

(intransitive) To campaign.

(vulgar) A penis.

To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.

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

To get a batsman out stumped.

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

To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).

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

(intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.

A Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 3{{nbsp}}liter).

(transitive) To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.

Synonym of logarithm. Category:en:Functions

(transitive) To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.

(sciences) A difference of one in the logarithm, usually in base 10; an order of magnitude.

The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.

(transitive) To cut trees into logs.

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.

(transitive) To cut down (trees).

The legs; as, to stir one's stumps.

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

One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.

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

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.

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

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.

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

To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.

A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills.

To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub.

A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.

To challenge; also, to nonplus.

An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.

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.

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.

To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.

A record and tabulated statement of the person(s) operating, operations performed, resources consumed, and the work done by any machine, device, or system.

The base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled

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

The part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed

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.

(cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket

To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run.

A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it

To record any event in a logbook, especially an event relating to the operation of a machine or device.

Cause to be perplexed or confounded;

To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs.

Walk heavily;

To move to and fro; to rock.

Travel through a district and make political speeches;

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

Remove tree stumps from;

Large log at the back of a hearth fire

The exponent required to produce a given number

A written record of messages sent or received;

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

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

Enter into a log, as on ships and planes

Cut lumber, as in woods and forests