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noun Also, log-in, logon.
1.
the act of logging in to a database, device, or computer, especially a multiuser computer or a remote or networked computer system.
2.
a person's username and password that allows them to log in to a computer system, network, device, or user account.
verb (used without object)
3.
to log in: Login with your new password. See log1 (def. 17).
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Log in
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Usage note
Many who are neither professionals in the computer field nor amateur tech enthusiasts decry the use of the solid form login as a verb, and with reason. It doesn’t behave like a normal verb. You cannot say you have loginned, and you are never in the process of loginning. EXPANDMoreover, you cannot even ask someone to login you; you must ask that person to log you in. Clearly, it is the two-word phrase log in that functions fully as an English verb and not the solid form. Normally, we would expect log in, the verb phrase and login, the noun to behave in the same way as similar pairs: blow out/blowout, crack down/crackdown, hang up/hangup, splash down/splashdown, turn off/turnoff, where the two-word phrase is a verb and the one-word form a noun. LINEBREAKAnd yet, this gluing together, this solidification and use of terms like login, logon, backup, and setup as verbs is so common in the computer universe that that world’s inhabitants take it for granted. Not everyone, however. Some well-known software companies, for example, carefully maintain the distinction in their programs and documentation. LINEBREAKBut habits are difficult to change. Those who react to the one-word verb as an error will probably have to get used to it, and those who use the one-word verb will have to recognize that others will see it and wince
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Many who are neither professionals in the computer field nor amateur tech enthusiasts decry the use of the solid form login as a verb, and with reason. It doesn’t behave like a normal verb. You cannot say you have loginned, and you are never in the process of loginning. EXPANDMoreover, you cannot even ask someone to login you; you must ask that person to log you in. Clearly, it is the two-word phrase log in that functions fully as an English verb and not the solid form. Normally, we would expect log in, the verb phrase and login, the noun to behave in the same way as similar pairs: blow out/blowout, crack down/crackdown, hang up/hangup, splash down/splashdown, turn off/turnoff, where the two-word phrase is a verb and the one-word form a noun. LINEBREAKAnd yet, this gluing together, this solidification and use of terms like login, logon, backup, and setup as verbs is so common in the computer universe that that world’s inhabitants take it for granted. Not everyone, however. Some well-known software companies, for example, carefully maintain the distinction in their programs and documentation. LINEBREAKBut habits are difficult to change. Those who react to the one-word verb as an error will probably have to get used to it, and those who use the one-word verb will have to recognize that others will see it and wince
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noun
1.
a portion or length of the trunk or of a large limb of a felled tree.
2.
something inert, heavy, or not sentient.
3.
4.
any of various records, made in rough or finished form, concerning a trip made by a ship or aircraft and dealing with particulars of navigation, weather, engine performance, discipline, and other pertinent details; logbook.
5.
EXPANDMovies. an account describing or denoting each shot as it is taken, written down during production and referred to in editing the film.
6.
a register of the operation of a machine.
7.
Also called well log. a record kept during the drilling of a well, especially of the geological formations penetrated.
8.
Computers. any of various chronological records made concerning the use of a computer system, the changes made to data, etc.
9.
Radio and Television. a written account of everything transmitted by a station or network.
10.
COLLAPSEAlso called log of wood. Australian Slang. a lazy, dull-witted person; fool.
verb (used with object)
11.
to cut (trees) into logs: to log pine trees for fuel.
12.
to cut down the trees or timber on (land): We logged the entire area in a week.
13.
to enter in a log; compile; amass; keep a record of: to log a day's events.
14.
to make (a certain speed), as a ship or airplane: We are logging 18 knots.
15.
to travel for (a certain distance or a certain amount of time), according to the record of a log: We logged 30 miles the first day. He has logged 10,000 hours flying time.
verb (used without object)
Verb phrases16.
to cut down trees and get out logs from the forest for timber: to log for a living.
17.
log in,
a.
Also, log on, sign on. Computers. to enter identifying data, as a name or password, into a multiuser system, so as to be able to do work with the system.
b.
to enter or include any item of information or data in a record, account, etc.
18.
log off/out, Computers. to terminate a work session using a multiuser system, or a connection to such a system.
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World English Dictionary
| log in | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | Also: log on to enter (an identification number, password, etc) from a remote terminal to gain access to a multiaccess system |
| —n | |
| 2. | Also: login the process by which a computer user logs in |
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Word Origin & History
log
"to enter into a log book," 1823, from logbook "daily record of a ship's speed, progress, etc." (1679), which is so called because wooden floats were used to measure a ship's speed. To log in in the computing sense is attested from 1963.
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American Heritage
Science Dictionary
log  (lôg) Pronunciation Key
A logarithm. |
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Slang Dictionary
log definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Computing Dictionary
log in definition
security(Or "login", "log on", "logon") To start a session with a system, usually by giving a user name and password as a means of user authentication. The term is also used to mean the ability to access a service (also called an account), e.g. "Have you been given a login yet?"
"Log in/on" is occasionally misused to refer to starting a session where no authorisation is involved, or to access where there is no session involved. E.g. "Log on to our Web site!"
"login" is also the Unix program which reads and verifies a user's user name and password and starts an interactive session.
The noun forms are usually written as a single word whereas the verb forms are often written as two words.
To end a session is to "log out" or "off".
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American Heritage
Idioms & Phrases
log in
Also, log on. Enter into a computer the information needed to begin a session, as in I logged in at two o'clock, or There's no record of your logging on today. These expressions refer especially to large systems shared by numerous individuals, who need to enter a username or password before executing a program. The antonyms are log off and log out, meaning "to end a computer session." All these expressions derive from the use of log in the nautical sense of entering information about a ship in a journal called a log book. [c. 1960]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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