log in

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See also: login, log-in, and Login

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By analogy with clock in. First use of the term appears in 1963 in the publication Compatible Time-Sharing System from the MIT Computation Center.

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log in (third-person singular simple present logs in, present participle logging in, simple past and past participle logged in)

  1. (computing, transitive, intransitive) To gain access to a computer system, usually by providing a previously registered username and password.
    Synonyms: log on, sign in, sign on, log into
    Antonyms: log off, log out, sign off, sign out
    I would like to log in to check my e-mail, but I can't remember my password.
  2. (transitive) To be placed at a certain ranking.
    • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 209:
      Their cover version of Bobby "Blue" Bland's "Turn On Your Love Light" logged in at number 80 in 1968.

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log in

  1. inflection of inloggen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

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