log into

Verb

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

1. (often, proscribed, transitive) To log in (“gain access, usually by providing a previously registered username and password”) to (a computer system).
   • You can include metadata such as the revision date, the author (if the person who made the change had logged into Wikipedia), and the summary the author entered when he made the revision.2006, Mark Pilgrim, “[Those Not Included in This Classification] Animate Wikipedia History”, in Greasemonkey Hacks: Tips & Tools for Remixing the Web with Firefox, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media...
   • Less than two years after its introduction, World of Warcraft, made by Blizzard Entertainment, based in Irvine, Calif., is on pace to generate more than $1 billion in revenue this year with almost seven million paying subscribers, who can log into the game and interact with other players.2006 September 5, Seth Schiesel, “Online Game, Made in U.S., Seizes the Globe”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jun...

   Synonyms:

   log onto

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see log, into: (ditransitive) to log (“enter, record, input”) (someone or something) into (somewhere).
   • There was a lot of evidence; it would one day take eight hours to log it into the trial, and, yet, there was so little that could help in the probe as far as leading the investigators to the man they sought.1980, Ann Rule, chapter 30, in The Stranger Beside Me, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 245
   • Log your name into the computer to see if any mail awaits.2002 November, Andrew Swaffer, Katrina O’Brien, Darroch Donald, “Sydney: Directory”, in Australia Handbook, Bath, Somerset: Footprint Handbooks Ltd, →ISBN, page 122