log on

verb

variants or less commonly log in

logged on also logged in; logging on also logging in; logs on also logs in

intransitive verb

: to establish communication and initiate interaction with a computer or system

When you log on, you are taken to your "slimming apartment"; it's a virtual world, kind of like the Sims game …

—Gill Sutherland

… that voters from Iowa, New Hampshire, and Ohio will see different pages when they log in.

—Dana Milbank

—often used with to

log in to the mainframe

After a hellish day at work or spat with your guy, you log on to Facebook …

—Jessica Knoll

—often written as log onto and log into

… a so-called portal, the site that greets users when they first log onto the Internet.

—Katie Hafner

… almost seven million paying subscribers, who can log into the game and interact with other players.

—Seth Schiesel

log-on

ˈlȯg-ˌȯn 

ˈläg-ˌän

noun

or less commonly log-in

ˈlȯg-ˌin 

ˈläg-

Examples of log on in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

During this visit, Taylor logged on to the state’s online portal for managing death certificates and worked through his list for the day, clicking electronic approvals for cremation and other paperwork. —Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2024

Sink your fangs into some colorful local history courtesy of The Enquirer's archives logged on Newspapers.com. —Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 24 Oct. 2024

The searches were logged on the database and a school resource officer reviewed them. —Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 3 Oct. 2024

According to police emergency call logs on the day of the incident, multiple calls from members of the public were made about overcrowding as early as four hours before the situation gravely worsened. —Gawon Bae, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1962, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

log on

verb

variants or log in

: to make a connection with a computer or system

logged on to the Internet

log-on

ˈlȯg-ˌȯn

ˈläg-ˌän

noun