{
  "id": "log.material",
  "term": "log",
  "sense": "material",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "draft",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "Lexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a piece of wood that is a shape",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "piece.portion",
      "substance.material",
      "form.shape"
    ],
    "interaction": "the portion of material is cut into a shape",
    "novel_properties": [
      "cylindrical form",
      "usable as fuel",
      "structural unit"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2023 Yarnell Hill wildfire burned 8,700 acres of ponderosa pine logs in Arizona.",
      "domain": "ecology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Logs from the 1889 Oji River timber raft floated 200 miles down Japan's Tone River.",
      "domain": "transport"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Lincoln Log cabin at Hildene in Vermont was built from white pine logs in 1900.",
      "domain": "architecture"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "piece.portion",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "substance.material",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "log",
    "logged",
    "logging",
    "logs"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-log.material"
}