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log into en · VERB

Etymology

Blend of log in (where in is an adverb, not a preposition) + into.

Meanings

1. (often, proscribed, transitive) To log in (“gain access, usually by providing a previously registered username and password”) to (a computer system).
   • Riley handed over his phone, which was logged into the university’s library database and open to an article. 2021 September 28, Lee Mandelo, chapter 20, in Summer Sons, New York, N.Y.: Tordotcom, →ISBN, page 230:
   • 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 2013:
   • 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, Inc., →ISBN, page 433:
   • A bra hung from the side of her computer monitor, and Renee delicately tossed it on the bed before logging into the desktop. 2020, Katlyn Duncan, Barefoot on the Beach, London: HQ, HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd, →ISBN, page 44:
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:
   • Django was logged into the Hôpital Lariboisière as “Jean Reinloardt,” age 18. 2004, Michael Dregni, “Notes”, in Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 283:

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