Ledger

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A book for keeping notes; a record book, a register.

   “Our ledger has no entry for the human pain caused by war.”

2. isim A book or other scheme for keeping accounting records.

   “The firſt Leidger, or Leidger Nº A. being thus finiſh'd, it is requiſite to prepare for the erecting of thy Accounts anew in a Leidger Nº B. or thy ſecond Leidger, which thou ſhalt do thus.”

3. isim A distributed ledger, a public financial transaction database, typically using a blockchain.

   “To be clear: there's only one ledger, but that ledger is not stored in any one central location. Rather, identical copies exist on every node—a copy on every computer.”

4. isim A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits.
5. isim A large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb.

   “In Great Britain ledgers that were placed outside of churches are sometimes termed external ledgers, while those placed within churches are called internal ledgers […] Ledgers generally sit directly on the ground or on low supports.”

6. isim A board attached to a wall to provide support for attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof rafters) to a building.

   “[The dome was] turned upon a centre laid without any standard from below to support it. Every story of the scaffolding being circular, and the ends of the ledgers meeting as so many rings, and truly wrought, it supported itself; […]”

7. isim Ellipsis of ledger bait (“fishing bait attached to a floating line fastened to the bank of a pond, stream, etc.”) or ledger line (“fishing line used with ledger bait for bottom fishing; ligger”).
8. fiil To record (something) in, or as if in, a ledger.

   “I never saw a man who knew so thoroughly well all that he [Philip Syng Physick] knew. It seemed as if his science and art were ledgered in his brain, so that he could turn on the instant to page and line.”

9. fiil To use (a certain type of bait) in bottom fishing.

   “The added advantage of legering a small bait rather than freelining one is that you can tighten up harder to the bait and so spot runs earlier.”

10. fiil To engage in bottom fishing.

    “In the fashion pursued by the fishermen who require to cast a long line on the Thames, for ledgering or spinning more particularly, the line is drawn off the reel and laid loosely in coils at the fisherman's feet, […]”

11. özel isim A surname.