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Chronicle vs Log - What's the difference?

chronicle | log |

As nouns the difference between chronicle and log

is that chronicle is a written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time while log is law.

As a verb chronicle

is to record in or as in a chronicle.

chronicle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.
  • *
  • *:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.

    • Usage notes

    * Often used in the title of a newspaper, as in Pennsylvania Chronicle .

    Synonyms

    * (account of events and when they happened) annals, archives, chronicon, diary, history, journal, narration, prehistory, recital, record, recountal, register, report, story, version

    Verb

  • To record in or as in a chronicle.

    • Synonyms

    * (record in a chronicle) record

    log

    Translingual

    (Logarithm)

    Symbol

    (head)
  • logarithm
    • if x=b^y then \log_{b}(x)=y

    Hyponyms

    * (logarithm) (with base e) ln, lb

    Usage notes

    If not specified, the assumed base of the logarithm is either 10 or e, depending on context.
    Related terms
    * lb, ld, lg, ln