Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a line or cord, from 150 to 200 fathoms in length, fastened to the log-chip by means of three legs of cord, and wound on a reel, called the log-recl. See
log .
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Just as you said, people want to know the essence of the story before they buy a book or commit to reading it – a great log-line will help you at every step of the way. on 29 Mar 2010 at 6: 20 pm Samantha Clark
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Loglines and Your Query 2010
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Quite methodically, just as part of the day's work, the steward chopped down with his knife, catching the log-line between the steel edge and the rail.
CHAPTER XLIII 2010
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Whatever it was, I knew that it was climbing aboard by the log-line.
Chapter 14 2010
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Bill Quigley had managed to catch the lazily moving log-line and were clinging to it.
CHAPTER XLIII 2010
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Unfortunately, the story of Inception, however fanciful and intriguing in log-line terms and even in the movie trailers, doesn't deliver and takes us through a meandering morass of sometimes mishmash proportions that had me looking at my watch several times throughout its overlong two hour twenty minute length.
Michael Russnow: Inception 's Getting a Lot of Buzz: But as a Conception Doesn't Stand the Test 2010
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And if that log-line gives you chills, remember that the Duplasses were responsible for such cutting-edge, indie projects as The Puffy Chair and Baghead.
Dan Persons: Mighty Movie Podcast Interviews: Cyrus and Let It Rain 2010
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And if that log-line gives you chills, remember that the Duplasses were responsible for such cutting-edge, indie projects as The Puffy Chair and Baghead.
Dan Persons: Mighty Movie Podcast Interviews: Cyrus and Let It Rain 2010
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Unfortunately, the story of Inception, however fanciful and intriguing in log-line terms and even in the movie trailers, doesn't deliver and takes us through a meandering morass of sometimes mishmash proportions that had me looking at my watch several times throughout its overlong two hour twenty minute length.
Michael Russnow: Inception's Getting a Lot of Buzz: But as a Conception Doesn't Stand the Test 2010
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Of course, we all said "Current;" but why didn't the log-line trail?
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I didn't see the evil of the drink then; I didn't see how the habit keeps winding its little cords round and round a man, till what begins as thin as a log-line, becomes in the end as thick as a hawser.
Frank Oldfield Lost and Found T.P. Wilson
hernesheir commented on the word log-line
The log-line and log-reel go together in a neither-one-without-the-other sort of way.
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September 29, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word log-line
And this time don't forget your log-chip, log-beaver.
September 29, 2011