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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.

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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.

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

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log in

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

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