log in

See also: login, log-in, and Login

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

log in

Wikipedia

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Verb

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 (often proscribed)

   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.

Derived terms

• log-in (noun)
• login (noun)
• log into

Related terms

• logoff (noun)
• log-on (noun)
• logon (noun)
• logout (noun)

Translations

gain access to a computer system

Afrikaans: meld aan Armenian: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Dungan: чинлэ (činle) Mandarin: 記入 / 记入 (zh) (jìrù), 登錄 / 登录 (zh) (dēnglù), 簽入 / 签入 (zh) (qiānrù) Czech: přihlásit se (cs) Danish: logge ind, logge på Dutch: aanmelden (nl), inloggen (nl) Esperanto: ensaluti Finnish: kirjautua (fi), kirjautua sisään French: s'identifier (fr), se connecter (fr) Georgian: ავტორიზაცია (avṭorizacia), სისტემაში შესვლა (sisṭemaši šesvla), შესვლა (šesvla) German: sich anmelden (de), sich einloggen (de), einloggen (de) Hungarian: belép (hu), bejelentkezik (hu) Icelandic: skrá inn Ido: enirar (io) Indonesian: masuk (id) Irish: logáil isteach Italian: accedere (it), autenticarsi, entrare (it) Japanese: ログインする (ja) (roguin suru), サインインする (sain'in suru) Khmer: ចូល (km) (cool) Korean: 로그인하다 (rogeu'inhada) Lingala: komíkitola Luxembourgish: aloggen Malay: log masuk Maori: takiuru Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: logge på Nynorsk: logga inn Polish: zalogować się (pl) Portuguese: fazer/realizar (o) login, entrar (pt), fazer login, realizar login, logar (pt) (slang), autenticar (pt), iniciar sessão, autenticar-se Romanian: autentifica (ro), loga (ro) Russian: авторизо́вываться (ru) (avtorizóvyvatʹsja), авторизова́ться (ru) (avtorizovátʹsja), войти́ (ru) (vojtí) (в систему v sistému), подсоедини́ться (ru) (podsojedinítʹsja), подключи́ться (ru) (podključítʹsja), зарегистри́роваться (ru) (zaregistrírovatʹsja) Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: zalogowaś se Spanish: entrar (es), iniciar sesión, loguearse (es) Swedish: logga in (sv) Thai: ล็อกอิน Tigrinya: ብመንነት እተው (bəmännät ʾətäw) Turkish: giriş yapmak Vietnamese: đăng nhập (vi), hội nhập (vi) Volapük: nunädön (vo) Walloon: s' elodjî (wa) Welsh: mewngofnodi (cy)

Anagrams

• Ligon, long i, ligno-, Lingo, lingo, longi, Loing, Olgin

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

log in

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

Anagrams

• inlog