Authenticate vs Login - What's the difference?
authenticate | login |
To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.
To prove authentic; to determine as real and true; as, to authenticate a portrait.
(computing) A combination of a user's identification and password used to enter a computer, program, network, etc.
(computing) The process of logging in.
As verbs the difference between authenticate and login
is that authenticate is to render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit while login is misspelling of lang=en.As a noun login is
a combination of a user's identification and password used to enter a computer, program, network, etc.authenticate
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(Webster 1913)Verb
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*login
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(wikipedia login)Noun
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* logonVerb
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*“Login” is not a verb----