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Blogroll vs Logroll - What's the difference?

blogroll | logroll |

As nouns the difference between blogroll and logroll

is that blogroll is a blogger's list of hyperlinks to other blogs that he/she recommends while logroll is a method of moving a patient, rolling up them on their side, and later onto a transport method such as a tarp, spineboard, or stretcher.

As a verb logroll is

to exchange political favours.

blogroll

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Internet) A blogger's list of hyperlinks to other blogs that he/she recommends.
  • logroll

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To exchange political favours.
  • To combine legislative items, either or both of which might fail on its own, into a single bill that is more likely to pass.
  • Republicans defeated Democratic efforts to ''logroll'' hate crimes legislation into the defense appropriations bill.
  • To roll a log in a body of water, while balancing on it; to birl.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2002, date=May 31, author=Jeffrey Felshman, title=Calendar, work=Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=The competitors come from as far away as New Zealand and Spain to the Lumberjack Bowl in Hayward--formerly a holding pond for Weyerhauser's North Wisconsin Logging Company--to pole climb, speed saw, logroll , and chop with all their might.}}
  • To move like rolling logs.
  • * {{quote-news, year=1999, date=January 22, author=Laura Molzahn, title=Chicago's Next Dance Festival, work=Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=Her dancers may logroll over each other or curl up together, but they never get personal.}}
  • To safely move (a body) in an emergency (medical) situation, tilting them up, then laying them on a transport surface.
  • Derived terms

    *logroller

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (emergency medicine) A method of moving a patient, rolling up them on their side, and later onto a transport method such as a tarp, spineboard, or stretcher.