online

• on-line

1950, from on +‎ line.

• Attributive: enPR: ŏn'līn", IPA^(key): /ˈɒnˌlaɪn/
• Predicative: enPR: ŏnlīn', IPA^(key): /ɒnˈlaɪn/

• Audio (US) (attributive use)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪn

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%.

   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.

• (connected to larger network): offline
• (available on a computer system): hardcopy
• (online business): brick and mortar
• (slang): living under a rock

• massive open online course (MOOC)
• massively multiplayer online game
• massively multiplayer online role-playing game
• online banking
• online dating
• online newspaper
• online public access catalog
• personal online desktop

online (not comparable)

1. While online; while in a running or active state, or connected to the Internet.

   He works online.

   • 2004, Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess, Napoleon Dynamite, 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.

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.

• come online

• El Nino, El Niño, Lonnie

• on line (chiefly adverbial and predicative, superseded)
• on-line (chiefly adverbial and predicative, superseded)

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

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

online

1. online (on, via or connected to the Internet or another network) [from 1960s]

online (not comparable)

1. online (on, via, connected or related to the Internet or another network) [from 1960s]

From English online.

• IPA^(key): /ˈonlɑi̯n/, [ˈo̞nlɑ̝i̯n]

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.

• online-kaupankäynti
• onlinejärjestelmä

• loinen

Borrowed from English online.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔnlaɪ̯n/

• (file)

online (indeclinable, predicative only)

1. online

   Antonym: offline

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

Borrowed from English online.

• IPA^(key): [ˈonlaːjn]
• Hyphenation: on‧line
• Rhymes: -aːjn

online (not comparable)

1. online

Borrowed from English online.

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

1. online

• Linneo, lenoni, linone, nonile

Borrowed from English online.

• IPA^(key): /onlain/
• Rhymes: -lain, -ain, -in

online

1. (proscribed) online

   Permainan online ― Online games

   Antonym: luar talian

   Synonyms: (proscribed) atas talian, dalam talian

• on-line, on line, onlajn

Unadapted borrowing from English online.

• IPA^(key): /ɔnˈlajn/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔnlajn
• Syllabification: on‧line

online (not comparable)

1. (Internet) online (available over the Internet)

   Coordinate term: offline

online (not comparable)

1. (Internet) online (performed over Internet)

   Coordinate term: offline

online m inan

1. (colloquial, Internet) online (Internet-connected mode of operation)

   Coordinate term: offline

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

• on-line

Unadapted borrowing from English online.

online (invariable)

1. online (connected to the Internet)

   O computador está online.

   The computer is online.

   Synonym: conectado

2. online (which takes place over the Internet)

   Comunicação online.

   Online communication.

   Synonyms: eletrónico, em linha

Unadapted borrowing from English online.

• IPA^(key): /ˌonˈlain/ [ˌõnˈlãĩn]
• Rhymes: -ain

online (invariable)

1. online

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.

Unadapted borrowing from English online.

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

online

1. online

   Synonyms: çevrim içi, çevrimiçi

   Synonyms: çevrim dışı, offline

• "online" - in Tureng Dictionary