See murder log in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "From a likening of the appearance of a crocodilian waiting to ambush prey to that of a log submerged in water.", "forms": [ { "form": "murder logs", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "murder log (plural murder logs)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "lifeform", "langcode": "en", "name": "Crocodilians", "orig": "en:Crocodilians", "parents": [ "Reptiles", "Vertebrates", "Chordates", "Animals", "Lifeforms", "All topics", "Life", "Fundamental", "Nature" ], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2018 April 16, Dan Broadbent (@aSciEnthusiast), Twitter:", "text": "They tell us the murder logs are *not* NASA employees.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2018 April 20, Jason Herbert, Ph.D. (@HerbertHistory), Twitter:", "text": "Teaching in Florida is great because there are always murder logs outside your classroom. #alligator", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2020 September 29, Liset (@Krzwyf), Twitter:", "text": "Toss in some “murder logs” and you have the best moat ever", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "An alligator or crocodile." ], "id": "en-murder_log-en-noun-bAnV2vc-", "links": [ [ "Internet", "Internet" ], [ "slang", "slang" ], [ "humorous", "humorous" ], [ "alligator", "alligator" ], [ "crocodile", "crocodile" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Internet slang, humorous) An alligator or crocodile." ], "tags": [ "Internet", "humorous" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-murder log.wav", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/97/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-murder_log.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-murder_log.wav.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/97/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-murder_log.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-murder_log.wav.ogg" } ], "word": "murder log" }
{ "etymology_text": "From a likening of the appearance of a crocodilian waiting to ambush prey to that of a log submerged in water.", "forms": [ { "form": "murder logs", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "murder log (plural murder logs)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English humorous terms", "English internet slang", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "en:Crocodilians" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2018 April 16, Dan Broadbent (@aSciEnthusiast), Twitter:", "text": "They tell us the murder logs are *not* NASA employees.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2018 April 20, Jason Herbert, Ph.D. (@HerbertHistory), Twitter:", "text": "Teaching in Florida is great because there are always murder logs outside your classroom. #alligator", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2020 September 29, Liset (@Krzwyf), Twitter:", "text": "Toss in some “murder logs” and you have the best moat ever", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "An alligator or crocodile." ], "links": [ [ "Internet", "Internet" ], [ "slang", "slang" ], [ "humorous", "humorous" ], [ "alligator", "alligator" ], [ "crocodile", "crocodile" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Internet slang, humorous) An alligator or crocodile." ], "tags": [ "Internet", "humorous" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-murder log.wav", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/97/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-murder_log.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-murder_log.wav.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/97/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-murder_log.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-murder_log.wav.ogg" } ], "word": "murder log" }
Download raw JSONL data for murder log meaning in English (1.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.