different between login vs session

English

Etymology

From the verb log in.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l??.?n/

Noun

login (plural logins)

1. (computing) A combination of a user's identification and password used to enter a computer, program, network, etc.

   I've forgotten my login again.

2. (computing) The process of logging in.

   Your login failed because you weren't connected to the office network.

Synonyms

• logon

Related terms

• log in
• log on

Translations

See also

• credentials

Verb

login

1. Misspelling of log in.

Further reading

• “Login” is not a verb

Anagrams

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

Old Norse

Participle

login

1. inflection of loginn:
   1. strong feminine nominative singular
   2. strong neuter nominative/accusative plural

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English login.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /l?.???/

Noun

login m (plural logins)

1. (computing) login (the act of logging into a system)
2. (computing) username (name that identifies an user of a computer system)

   Synonyms: usuário, nome de usuário, username

Spanish

Noun

login m (plural logins or login)

1. login

Swedish

Noun

login

1. definite singular of logi

English

Etymology

From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessi? (“a sitting”), from sede? (“sit”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s???n/
• Rhymes: -???n
• Homophone: cession

Noun

session (plural sessions)

1. A period devoted to a particular activity, e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislative body (that together comprise the legislative term) whose individual meetings are also called sessions.
2. A meeting of a council, court, school, or legislative body to conduct its business.

3. (computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.

4. (cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
5. (obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien

     But Vivien, gathering somewhat of his mood, […] / Leapt from her session on his lap, and stood.

6. (music) Ellipsis of jam session
7. (education) An academic term.

Hyponyms

• bull session

Derived terms

• parasession
• sessionize
• sessionless
• session musician
• session-replicated

Related terms

Translations

Verb

session (third-person singular simple present sessions, present participle sessioning, simple past and past participle sessioned)

1. (music) To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.

Anagrams

• essoins, osseins

Finnish

Noun

session

1. Genitive singular form of sessio.

French

Etymology

From Old French session, borrowed from Latin sessi?, sessi?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.sj??/

Noun

session f (plural sessions)

1. session, period
2. (computing) session

Related terms

• seoir

Further reading

• “session” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sessi?, sessi?nem.

Noun

session f (oblique plural sessions, nominative singular session, nominative plural sessions)

1. sitting; session (of a court, a committee, etc.)

Descendants

• French: session
• ? Middle English: session
  • English: session