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onlining

onlining is the present participle and gerund of online.

Meaning of online

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) 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

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Questions about onlining

What is onlining the present participle and gerund of?
Onlining is the present participle and gerund of online.

Words near onlining in the dictionary

  1. onlineness
  2. onliner
  3. onliners
  4. onlines
  5. onliness
  6. onlining
  7. Onllwyn
  8. onload
  9. onloaded
  10. onloading
  11. onloads

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Adapted from Wiktionary: onlining (page history and authors); online (page history and authors). 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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