online
UK/ˈɒnlaɪn/
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British/ˈɔnlɑjn/
online adjective: of a generator or power plant: connected to the grid.
Adjective
online (comparative more online, superlative most online)
- Of a generator or power plant: connected to the grid.
- Of a computer: actively connected to the Internet or to some other communications service.
- Is this modem online?
- Available over, or delivered from, the Internet.
- 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%....2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74
- The online world was meant to be an open system but has become dominated by huge corporations.2024 May 4, John Naughton, “The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding”, in The Guardian
- Connected to the Internet.
- I'll be online tonight, so I'll be able to reply to your email.
- 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.
- 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!
- Immersed in Internet culture. (Usually modified by an intensifier such as extremely or terminally)
- terminally online
- To borrow an idiom from the extremely online, late Godard is a mood.2019, A.O. Scott, “'The Image Book' Review: Godard Looks at Violence, and Movies”, in The New York Times
- Able to process an input piece-by-piece without needing to have the entire input available to it from the start.
- An on–line algorithm is presented for constructing the suffix tree for a given string in time linear in the length of the string. The new algorithm has the desirable property of processing the string symbol by symbol from left to right. It has always the suffix tree for the scanned part of the...1995 September, Esko Ukkonen, “On-line construction of suffix trees”, in Algorithmica, volume 14, number 3 (PDF), →DOI, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2026, pages 249–260
- Antonyms:
- offline
Adverb
online (not comparable)
- While online; while in a running or active state, or connected to the Internet.
- He works online.
- 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.2004, Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess, Napoleon Dynamite (motion picture), spoken by Kip (Aaron Ruell)
Verb
online (third-person singular simple present onlines, present participle onlining, simple past and past participle onlined)
- To bring (a system, etc.) online; to promote to an active or running state.
- 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.2013, John Clarke, Oracle Exadata Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, page 219
online meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
online in Hindi
- ऑनलाइन, ऑनलाइनिंग, ओनलाइनिंग
online in Tamil
- இணைநிலை, நிகழ்நிலை, எழிவரி, இணையவழி, இயங்கலை, இழுனை மேல்
online in Marathi
- connected to a network
- ऑनलाइन ŏnlāin
- available over the Internet
- ऑनलाइन ŏnlāin, इंटरनेटवर iṇṭraneṭvar
- connected to the Internet
- ऑनलाइन ŏnlāin
- performed over Internet
- ऑनलाइन ŏnlāin
online in Urdu
- connected to a network
- روئے ربط rū-ey-rabt, آن لائن ān-lā'in, انٹرنیٹ پر inṭarneṭ par, بر خط bar-xat
More languagesFewer languages
- online in Bengali
- অনলাইন onlain
- online in Telugu
- ఆన్లైన్, ఆన్లైన్లో, ఆన్లైనింగ్
- online in Malayalam
- ഓൺലൈൻ, ഓൺലൈനിൽ, ഓൺലൈനായി
- online in Kannada
- ನೇರ, ಮಿನ್ನೇರ, ಮಿನ್ನಿರ್ಮೆ, ಮಿನ್ಕಾಣ್ಕೆ
- online in Punjabi
- ਔਨਲਾਈਨ, ਆਨਲਾਈਨ, ਆਨਲਾਈਨਿੰਗ
- online in Gujarati
- જાળે jāḷe
- online in Odia
- ଅନ୍ଲାଇନ, ଅନଲାଇନ୍, ଅନ୍ଲାଇନ୍
- online in Nepali
- अनलाइन, अनलाइनिङ, अन्लाइनिङ
- online in Tagalog
- onlayn
- online in Malay
- dalam talian
- online in Indonesian
- daring, dalam jejaring, tersambung, beroperasi
- online in Persian
- آنلاین ânlâyn, برخط barxat, درون خط darun-e xat, روی خط ruy-e xat
- online in Vietnamese
- trực tuyến, trên mạng
- online in Myanmar
- အွန်လိုင်း wanluing:
Examples of online in a sentence
- I prefer to read online newspapers.
- And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
Antonyms of online
Forms of online
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more online |
| superlative | most online |
| alternative form (dated) | on-line |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | onlines |
| present participle | onlining |
| past participle | onlined |
| past | onlined |
Origin of online
1950, from on + line.
Words formed from online
- chronically online
- massively multiplayer online game
- massively multiplayer online role-playing game
- massive open online course
- online banking
- online date
- online dating
- online learning
- onlineness
- online public access catalog
- onliner
- online reality game
- online service provider
- online wallet
- personal online desktop
- terminally online
Phrases with online
Words that rhyme with online
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- divine
- combine
- pine
- spline
- swine
- consign
- frankenstein
- nine
- refine
- vine
- whine
- benign
- chine
- in line
- intertwine
- recline
- resign
- rine
- undermine
- wine
- affine
- anodyne
- dine
- gold mine
- incline
- malign
- opine
- outshine
- propine
- red line
- shrine
- syne
- tine
- trunk line
- tyne
- atrine
- berine
- bine
- brine
- cline
- confine
- disentwine
- einstein
- equine
- offline
- quine
- repine
- rhine
Questions about online
- What does online mean?
- Online means of a generator or power plant: connected to the grid.
- What is online in Hindi?
- Online in Hindi is ऑनलाइन, ऑनलाइनिंग, ओनलाइनिंग. See Online meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use online in a sentence?
- I prefer to read online newspapers.
- What part of speech is online?
- Online can be an adjective, an adverb or a verb.
- How do you pronounce online?
- Online is pronounced /ˈɒnlaɪn/ (UK).
Words near online in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: online (page history and authors); online (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); online (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অনলাইন (Bengali) (page history and authors); online (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); online (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); online (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); online (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); online (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); online (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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