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log in

log in verb: to gain access to a computer system, usually by providing a previously registered username and password.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To gain access to a computer system, usually by providing a previously registered username and password.
    • 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.
    • Their cover version of Bobby "Blue" Bland's "Turn On Your Love Light" logged in at number 80 in 1968.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 209

log in meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Malay and Indonesian

log in in Tamil

புகுபதிகை செய்

log in in Malayalam

പ്രവേശിക്കുക

log in in Malay

gain access to a computer system
log masuk

log in in Indonesian

gain access to a computer system
masuk
More languagesFewer languages
log in in Thai
ล็อกอิน
log in in Vietnamese
đăng nhập, hội nhập

Synonyms of log in

Antonyms

Forms of log in

third-person singular presentlogs in
present participlelogging in
past participlelogged in
pastlogged in

Origin of log in

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.

Words formed from log in

Questions about log in

What does log in mean?
Log in means to gain access to a computer system, usually by providing a previously registered username and password.
What is log in in Tamil?
Log in in Tamil is புகுபதிகை செய். See Log in meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is log in?
Log in is a verb.
What is the past tense of log in?
The past tense of log in is logged in.

Words near log in in the dictionary

  1. log dogs
  2. log drive
  3. log drives
  4. log flume
  5. log flumes
  6. log in
  7. log into
  8. log jam
  9. log jams
  10. log line
  11. log lines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: log in (page history and authors); log in (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); log in (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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