📖 L — The English dictionary · page 28

loess — Everyday, meaning 1: (geography) A very fine, yellowish-brown soil made of dust blown by the wind, often after the Ice Age.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It makes very fertile farmland but wears away easily.↗ Example: Loess is soil carried by the wind.↗ · The Yellow River is yellow because of loess.↗ · Farmers grow good crops on loess.↗ · The Loess Plateau in China is covered with deep loess.↗ · Loess can be washed away quickly by heavy rain.↗ · Our geography teacher showed us a jar of fine loess.↗

loft — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A loft is the room or space just under the roof of a house, often used for storage (US: attic).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A loft is a large flat in an old factory or warehouse, with high ceilings (especially US).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A hayloft is the upper floor of a barn where hay is stored.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A pigeon loft is a shed for keeping pigeons.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To loft a ball is to hit or kick it high into the air.↗ Example: The Christmas decorations are up in the loft.↗ · Dad climbed the loft ladder.↗ · Loft insulation keeps heat in the house.↗ · We turned the loft into a bedroom.↗ · The cat was hiding in the hayloft.↗ · She lofted the ball over the goalkeeper.↗ · When all is quiet we will hide in the loft.’↗

loftily — Everyday, meaning 1: Loftily means in a proud, grand way, as if you think you are better than others.↗ Example: He held his head up loftily.↗ · The cat walked loftily past the dog.↗ · She answered loftily, as if she knew best.↗ · Behold, God doeth loftily in His power; who is a teacher like Him?↗ (Writings JOB.36.22, JPS 1917)↗ · They gush out, they speak arrogancy; all the workers of iniquity bear themselves loftily.↗ (Writings PSA.94.4, JPS 1917)↗

loftiness — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The quality of being very high or proud.↗ Example: We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his haughtiness, and the assumption of his heart.↗ (Prophets JER.48.29, JPS 1917)↗ · And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.↗ (Prophets ISA.2.17, JPS 1917)↗

lofty — Everyday, meaning 1: Very high or tall: lofty mountains.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Very grand, noble or ambitious: lofty ideas.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Proud and acting as if better than others: a lofty manner.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (Australia, slang) A joking nickname for a very tall person, or sometimes for a short one.↗ Example: The castle had lofty towers.↗ · Eagles nest on lofty cliffs.↗ · She has lofty dreams of becoming an astronaut.↗ · He spoke in a lofty way, as if he knew everything.↗ · The lofty pine trees blocked out the sun.↗ · His nickname at school was Lofty because he was so tall.↗ · Their lofty plans did not work in real life.↗ · The church had a lofty ceiling.↗ · The houses stood there, so lofty, so close!↗ · God who brought them forth out of Egypt is for them like the lofty horns of the wild-ox.↗ (Torah NUM.23.22, JPS 1917)↗ · And upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall; (Prophets ISA.2.15, JPS 1917)↗ · There is a generation, Oh how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.↗ (Writings PRO.30.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And man is bowed down, and man is humbled, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled; (Prophets ISA.5.15, JPS 1917)↗

log — Everyday, meaning 1: A log is a thick piece of a tree trunk or big branch that has been cut down.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A log is a written record of what happens, like a ship's log or a reading log.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To log in or log on is to enter a computer or website with your name and password.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Logging is cutting down trees for wood.↗ Example: A log is cut into 4 pieces.↗ · How many cuts make 5 pieces?↗ · Each cut takes 3 minutes.↗ · There are 20 logs in the pile.↗ · We put another log on the fire.↗ · Fill in your reading log every night.↗ · Log in with your username and password.↗ · After the long walk I slept like a log.↗ · One set her foot on the log.↗ · And the priest shall take of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand.↗ (Torah LEV.14.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt-offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before the LORD.↗ (Torah LEV.14.24, JPS 1917)↗ · And the priest shall take one of the he-lambs, and offer him for a guilt-offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave-offering before the LORD.↗ (Torah LEV.14.12, JPS 1917)↗

logger — Everyday, meaning 1: A person whose job is cutting down trees and taking the logs away; a lumberjack.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science, computers) A device or program that records information again and again over time, like temperatures or events.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (computers) A small program that writes a list (a log) of what happens on a computer.↗ Example: The logger cut the tall pine with a chainsaw.↗ · Loggers in Canada once floated logs down the rivers.↗ · We left a data logger in the classroom to record the temperature overnight.↗ · The data logger showed it got coldest at 5 o'clock in the morning.↗ · Illegal loggers are damaging parts of the Amazon rainforest.↗ · A logger must wear a helmet and strong boots for safety.↗ · The game has a logger that writes down every error.↗ · The old loggers' hut is now a museum.↗

loggerhead — Everyday, meaning 1: To be «at loggerheads» with someone is to disagree strongly and argue with them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A loggerhead turtle is a large sea turtle with a big head.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old) A loggerhead was an old word for a stupid person.↗ Example: The two neighbours are at loggerheads over the fence.↗ · My brother and I were at loggerheads about the TV.↗ · Loggerhead turtles nest on warm beaches.↗ · A loggerhead turtle can live for over 50 years.↗ · The councils have been at loggerheads for months.↗ · Plastic in the sea harms loggerhead turtles.↗

logging — Everyday, meaning 1: Logging is the work of cutting down trees and taking the wood away to sell.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Logging (from «log») is writing down information in a log or record: logging the weather each day.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Logging in (or on) means entering your name and password to start using a computer or website; logging out (or off) means leaving it.↗ Example: Logging has destroyed large parts of the rainforest.↗ · The logging trucks carried huge tree trunks.↗ · We are logging the temperature every hour.↗ · Remember logging out after you use the school computer.↗ · I'm having trouble logging in.↗ · The captain was logging the ship's speed.↗ · Careful logging can let a forest grow back.↗

logic — Everyday, meaning 1: Logic is careful, clear thinking where each step follows from the one before, so you reach a sensible answer.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Logic is also the study of correct reasoning, a part of maths and philosophy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The logic of something is the reason or sense behind it: «I don't see the logic of that plan».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (computers) Logic is the set of rules and true/false steps a computer or program follows.↗ Example: Use logic to solve the puzzle: the cat is not in the red house.↗ · There is no logic in walking home in the rain without your coat.↗ · In coding, logic decides what the robot does next.↗ · Sherlock Holmes solved crimes with logic.↗ · Her logic was good, but one fact was wrong.↗ · We learned about «and», «or» and «not» in logic.↗ · I can't follow the logic of this rule.↗ · The translation adopted here follows a popular logic.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · George Boole inThe Laws of Thought, London 1854, p. 48, also says: "The respective interpretations of the symbols 0 and 1 in the system of Logic are Nothing and Universe."↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

logical — Everyday, meaning 1: Logical means following clear and correct reasoning, so each step makes sense.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Logical means sensible and what you would expect, given the facts.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A logical person thinks clearly and step by step.↗ Example: Put the steps in a logical order.↗ · It's logical to take an umbrella if it looks like rain.↗ · Her explanation was clear and logical.↗ · Solve the puzzle with logical thinking.↗ · The logical answer is that the cat ate the fish.↗ · He is a very logical person.↗ · That isn't logical: you can't be in two places at once.↗ · Here we meet with another logical though fanciful conclusion, which a very slight knowledge of the workings of nature proves to have been just and true.↗

logically — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: In a way that follows clear reasoning.↗ Example: Klyce (f/ni- verse 1921 para. 43 f) advances the view that zero and infinity are logically identical.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · From a Pythagorean point of view the fifth element "aether" like infinity is only another name for vacuum.↗ * Therefore, aether also is logically identical with zero (Com. above p. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

logo — Everyday, meaning 1: A small picture, symbol or special design that a company, team, school or group uses so people recognise it.↗ Example: Our school logo is a green oak tree.↗ · The football club's logo is on the shirts.↗ · We designed a logo for our class newspaper.↗ · You can spot the shop from its logo.↗ · Some logos are just letters.↗ · Adverts show the logo again and again so you remember it.↗

loin — Everyday, meaning 1: Loin is a cut of meat from the back of an animal, between the ribs and the hips: pork loin, lamb loin.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old, Bible) The loins are the part of the body around the hips and lower belly; «gird up your loins» meant get ready for hard work or a fight.↗ Example: We had roast pork loin for Sunday dinner.↗ · The butcher cut four lamb loin chops.↗ · Sirloin is a cut of beef from near the loin.↗ · «Gird up your loins,» says an old Bible verse.↗ · In hot lands some people wore only a loincloth.↗ · Grandad joked, «Gird your loins, we're cleaning the garage!»↗ · This brown giant was without clothes save for a wild-cat-skin about his loins.↗ · And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.↗ (Torah GEN.37.34, JPS 1917)↗ · And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt already.↗ (Torah EXO.1.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; (Torah GEN.35.11, JPS 1917)↗ · She girdeth her loins with strength, and maketh strong her arms.↗ (Writings PRO.31.17, JPS 1917)↗ · He looseth the bond of kings, and bindeth their loins with a girdle.↗ (Writings JOB.12.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou didst bring us into the hold; Thou didst lay constraint upon our loins.↗ (Writings PSA.66.11, JPS 1917)↗

loins — Early Modern English, meaning 1: The lower part of the body between the ribs and the thighs; in these texts it also means the body as the source of children.↗ Example: And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.↗ (Torah GEN.37.34, JPS 1917) · This brown giant was without clothes save for a wild-cat-skin about his loins.↗ (Old Indian Legends) · And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt already.↗ (Torah EXO.1.5, JPS 1917)

loiter — Everyday, meaning 1: To loiter is to stand or wait about without hurrying and without a clear reason.↗ Example: The prince loitered about all day.↗ · Don't loiter on the way to school.↗ · Two boys loitered by the gate.↗

lollipop — Everyday, meaning 1: A hard sweet (candy) on a stick that you lick or suck.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, Australia) An ice lolly: frozen juice on a stick.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Lollipop lady / lollipop man (UK, Australia, NZ): a person who helps children cross the road near a school, holding a round «STOP» sign on a pole.↗ Example: The dentist gave me a sugar-free lollipop.↗ · My lollipop is cherry flavoured.↗ · Wait for the lollipop lady to stop the cars before you cross.↗ · Don't run with a lollipop in your mouth.↗ · We used lollipop sticks to make a model raft.↗ · The lollipop man waves to all the children.↗ · Too many lollipops are bad for your teeth.↗

lollop — Everyday, meaning 1: To move along in a clumsy, bouncing, loose way, like a big puppy or a rabbit.↗ Example: The big puppy came lolloping across the garden.↗ · The hare lolloped away over the field.↗ · Rabbits lollop when they are not in a hurry.↗ · The kangaroo lolloped across the plain.↗ · A shaggy dog lolloped up to say hello.↗ · The baby elephant lolloped behind its mother.↗