log in

See also: login, log-in, and Login

English

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):

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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

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

log in

1. inflection of inloggen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Anagrams

• inlog