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See also: on line and on-line

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Alternative forms

Etymology

1950, from on +‎ line.

Pronunciation

Adjective

online (comparative more online, superlative most online)

  1. Of a system: connected (generally electrically) to a larger network.
    1. Of a generator or power plant: connected to the grid.
    2. Of a computer: actively connected to the Internet or to some other communications service.
      Is this modem online?
  2. Available over, or delivered from, the Internet.
    • 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
      In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
    • 2024 May 4, John Naughton, “The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding”, in The Guardian:
      The online world was meant to be an open system but has become dominated by huge corporations.
    I prefer to read online newspapers.
  3. Connected to the Internet.
    I'll be online tonight, so I'll be able to reply to your email.
  4. Available on a computer system, even if not networked.
    Press the F1 key to access the online help.
    The program comes with an online manual, supplied on compact disc.
  5. Of a system: active, particularly building facilities (such as power) or a factory or power plant.
    The power is online.
    Once this factory comes online, it will double car production in our country!
  6. (slang) Immersed in Internet culture. (Usually modified by an intensifier such as extremely or terminally)
    • 2019, A.O. Scott, “'The Image Book' Review: Godard Looks at Violence, and Movies”, in The New York Times:
      To borrow an idiom from the extremely online, late Godard is a mood.

Antonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

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Adverb

online (not comparable)

  1. While online; while in a running or active state, or connected to the Internet.
    He works online.
    • 2004, Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess, Napoleon Dynamite (motion picture), spoken by Kip (Aaron Ruell):
      Well, things are getting pretty serious right now. I mean, we chat online for, like, two hours every day so I guess you could say things are gettin' pretty serious.

Translations

Verb

online (third-person singular simple present onlines, present participle onlining, simple past and past participle onlined)

  1. (computing, transitive) To bring (a system, etc.) online; to promote to an active or running state.
    • 2013, John Clarke, Oracle Exadata Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, page 219:
      The output in Listing 8-2 shows your disk group status prior to onlining the disks, the commands to online your disks, and the status after onlining.

See also

Anagrams

Dutch

Alternative forms

  • on line (chiefly adverbial and predicative, superseded)
  • on-line (chiefly adverbial and predicative, superseded)

Etymology

Borrowed from English online. The forms on line and on-line are older in Dutch.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔnˈlɑi̯n/, (chiefly attributive and in compounds) /ˈɔn.lɑi̯n/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: on‧li‧ne

Adverb

online

  1. online (on, via or connected to the Internet or another network)

Adjective

online (not comparable)

  1. online (on, via, connected or related to the Internet or another network)

Declension

Declension of online
uninflected online
inflected online
comparative
positive
predicative/adverbial online
indefinite m./f. sing. online
n. sing. online
plural online
definite online
partitive onlines

Finnish

Etymology

From English online.

Pronunciation

Adverb

online

  1. online; used also as modifier in compound terms, often with a hyphen and as uninflected attribute
    Haluan hoitaa pankkiasiani online.
    I want to handle my banking business online.
    Olen X-pankin online-asiakas.
    I'm an online customer of X Bank.

Derived terms

Anagrams

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English online.

Pronunciation

Adjective

online (indeclinable, predicative only)

  1. online
    Antonym: offline

Further reading

  • online” in Duden online
  • online” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English online.

Pronunciation

Adjective

online (not comparable)

  1. online

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative online online-ok
accusative online-t online-okat
dative online-nak online-oknak
instrumental online-nal online-okkal
causal-final online-ért online-okért
translative online-ná online-okká
terminative online-ig online-okig
essive-formal online-ként online-okként
essive-modal
inessive online-ban online-okban
superessive online-on online-okon
adessive online-nál online-oknál
illative online-ba online-okba
sublative online-ra online-okra
allative online-hoz online-okhoz
elative online-ból online-okból
delative online-ról online-okról
ablative online-tól online-októl
non-attributive
possessive - singular
online-é online-oké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
online-éi online-okéi

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English online.

Adjective

online (invariable) (Also: on line, on-line)

  1. online

Anagrams

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English online.

Pronunciation

Adjective

online

  1. (proscribed) online
    Synonyms: (proscribed) atas talian, dalam talian
    Antonym: luar talian
    Permainan onlineOnline games

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English online.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔnˈlajn/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ajn
  • Syllabification: on‧line

Adjective

online (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. (Internet) online (available over the Internet)
    Coordinate term: offline

Adverb

online (not comparable)

  1. (Internet) online (performed over Internet)
    Coordinate term: offline

Noun

online m inan

  1. (colloquial, Internet) online (Internet-connected mode of operation)
    Coordinate term: offline

Declension

Derived terms

adjective
adverb

Further reading

  • online in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • online in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English online.

Pronunciation

 

Adjective

online (invariable)

  1. online (connected to the Internet)
    Synonym: conectado
    O computador está online.
    The computer is online.
  2. online (which takes place over the Internet)
    Synonyms: eletrónico, em linha
    Comunicação online.
    Online communication.

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English online.

Pronunciation

Adjective

online (invariable)

  1. online

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English online. First attested in 1969.[1]

Adjective

online (not comparable)

  1. online.
    Synonym: uppkopplad
    • 2023 May 10, “Unga i våldsamma relationer söker ofta stöd online [Young people in violent relationships often seek support online]”, in Forskning:
      En ny studie har undersökt våld mot unga i nära parrelationer. Studien, som genomförts av forskare vid Stockholms universitet, visar att behovet att söka anonymt stöd online är stort.
      A new study has investigated violence against young people in intimate partner relationships. The study, which was carried out by researchers at Stockholm University, shows that the need to seek anonymous support online is great.
    • 1969 September 16, Arbetet, page 6:
      Det är Sveriges första on-line-kopplade bankomat — den står alltså i direkt förbindelse med bankens datamaskin som []
      It is Sweden's first on-line connected ATM — it is hence directly connected to the bank's computer which
    • 1964 July 13, Svenska Dagbladet, page 2:
      [] online system direkt anknutet till SAS världsomspännande nät för []
      online system directly connected to SAS worldwide network for

References

Turkish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English online.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈon.ɫajn/, /onˈɫajn/
  • Hyphenation: on‧line

Adjective

online

  1. online
    Synonyms: çevrim içi, çevrimiçi
    Antonyms: çevrim dışı, offline

Declension

Further reading