online

See also: on line and on-line

English[edit]

English Wikipedia has an article on:

online

Wikipedia

Alternative forms[edit]

on-line

Etymology[edit]

1950, from on +‎ line.

Pronunciation[edit]

Attributive: enPR: ŏn'līn", IPA^(key): /ˈɒnˌlaɪn/
Predicative: enPR: ŏnlīn', IPA^(key): /ɒnˈlaɪn/
Audio (US) (attributive use) (file)
Rhymes: -aɪn

Adjective[edit]

online (comparative more online, superlative most online)

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?
Available over, or delivered from, the Internet.
- 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎^[1], 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.
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!
(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^[2]:
  To borrow an idiom from the extremely online, late Godard is a mood.

Antonyms[edit]

(connected to larger network): offline
(available on a computer system): hardcopy
(online business): brick and mortar

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Descendants

→ German: online
→ Hungarian: online
→ Italian: online
→ Japanese: オンライン (onrain)
→ Korean: 온라인 (onnain)
→ Persian: آنلاین‎ (ânlâyn)
→ Polish: online
→ Portuguese: online
→ Russian: онла́йн (onlájn)
→ Spanish: online
→ Scottish Gaelic: air loidhne (calque)
→ Swedish: online

Translations[edit]

connected to a network

Bulgarian: свъ́рзан (bg) (svǎ́rzan)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 網上 (zh), 网上 (zh) (wǎngshàng), 線上 (zh), 线上 (zh) (xiànshàng)
Esperanto: interreta, enreta
Finnish: verkossa (fi), online (fi) (computer); seinässä (fi) (small electric appliance), verkossa (fi) (electric machinery); kytkettynä (fi) (coupled, generally)
French: en ligne (fr)
Georgian: ონლაინ (onlain), ხაზზე (xazze)
German: online (de), angeschlossen (de)
Gujarati: જાળે (jāḷe)
Ido: enreta, enlinea
Indonesian: daring (id), dalam jaringan (id)
Japanese: オンライン (ja) (onrain)
Korean: 온라인 (ko) (onnain)
Malay: dalam talian
Maori: tuihono
Norman: brantchi
Persian: آنلاین‎ (ânlâyn)
Polish: online (pl)
Portuguese: online (pt), em linha (pt)
Romanian: în linie, online (ro), rețelizat
Russian: онла́йн (ru) m (onlájn) (noun), онла́йновый (ru) (onlájnovyj)
Slovene: v omrežju
Turkish: çevrim içi (tr)
Ukrainian: онла́йн (onlájn), онла́йновий (uk) (onlájnovyj)
Walloon: raloyî (wa) m
Welsh: ar lein

available over the Internet

Armenian: առցանց (hy) (aṙcʿancʿ)
Burmese: အွန်လိုင်း (wanluing:)
Cornish: warlinen
Finnish: verkko- (fi)
French: en ligne (fr)
German: online (de)
Greek: σε απευθείας σύνδεση (se apeftheías sýndesi)
Gujarati: જાળે (jāḷe)
Ido: enreta, enlinea
Indonesian: daring (id)
Irish: ar líne
Khmer: អនឡាញ (km) (ʼɑnlaañ)
Malay: dalam talian
Manx: er-linney
Maori: ā-ipurangi, tuihono
Polish: online (pl)
Portuguese: online (pt)
Scottish Gaelic: air loidhne
Vietnamese: trực tuyến (vi), trên mạng
Walloon: so les fis (wa)
Welsh: ar lein
Yiddish: אָנלײַן‎ (onlayn)

connected to the Internet

Armenian: առցանց (hy) (aṙcʿancʿ)
Bulgarian: онлайн (onlajn)
Cornish: warlinen
Finnish: verkossa, netissä
French: en ligne (fr)
Georgian: ონლაინ (onlain), ხაზზე (xazze), დაკავშირებული (daḳavširebuli)
German: online (de)
Greek: σε απευθείας σύνδεση (se apeftheías sýndesi)
Ido: enreta, enlinea
Indonesian: daring (id), tersambung
Irish: ar líne
Italian: in rete
Malay: dalam talian
Manx: er-linney
Maori: ā-ipurangi, tuihono
Norman: brantchi
Polish: online
Portuguese: online (pt), em linha (pt)
Romanian: online (ro), în internet
Russian: в сети́ (v setí)
Scottish Gaelic: air loidhne
Slovene: dosegljiv
Spanish: en línea (es)
Ukrainian: в мере́жі́ (v meréží), у мере́жі́ (u meréží)
Walloon: raloyî (wa) m
Welsh: ar lein

available on a computer system

Armenian: առցանց (hy) (aṙcʿancʿ)
Finnish: online (fi)
Malay: dalam talian
Welsh: ar lein

of a system that is active

Bulgarian: вклю́чен (vkljúčen)
Finnish: päällä (fi) (power); toiminnassa (fi) (factory etc.)
German: eingeschaltet (de)
Japanese: 起動 (ja) (kidō)
Malay: dalam talian

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Arabic: ^{(please verify)} مُتَّصِل‎ (muttaṣil), ^{(please verify)} مُتَوَاجِد‎ (mutawājid), ^{(please verify)} عَلَى الْإِنْتَرْنَت‎ (ʿalā l-ʾintarnat), ^{(please verify)} أُونْلَايْن‎ (ʾonlayn)
Azerbaijani: ^{(please verify)} onlayn
Czech: ^{(please verify)} online (cs), ^{(please verify)} připojený
Dutch: ^{(please verify)} online (nl), ^{(please verify)} aangesloten (nl), ^{(please verify)} verbonden (nl)
French: ^{(please verify)} en ligne (fr), ^{(please verify)} online (fr)
German: ^{(please verify)} eingeschaltet (de), ^{(please verify)} verbunden (de), ^{(please verify)} online (de)
Hindi: ^{(please verify)} ऑनलाइन (ŏnlāin)
Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} tengdur m
Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} in linea
Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} на линија (na linija), ^{(please verify)} вклучен (vklučen), ^{(please verify)} интернет- (internet-) (3)
Malagasy: ^{(please verify)} an-tserasera
Mandarin:
Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 在線 (zh), ^{(please verify)} 在线 (zh) (zàixiàn), ^{(please verify)} 上網 (zh), ^{(please verify)} 上网 (zh) (shàngwǎng), ^{(please verify)} 聯機, ^{(please verify)} 联机 (liánjī), ^{(please verify)} 線上 (zh), ^{(please verify)} 线上 (zh) (xiànshàng), ^{(please verify)} 網上 (zh), ^{(please verify)} 网上 (zh) (wǎngshàng)
Norman: ^{(please verify)} en lîngne (Jersey)
Russian: ^{(please verify)} онла́йн- (ru) (onlájn-), ^{(please verify)} онла́йновый (ru) (onlájnovyj), ^{(please verify)} в сети́ (v setí), ^{(please verify)} в интерне́те (v internéte)
Slovak: ^{(please verify)} online, ^{(please verify)} pripojený m
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} en línea (es)
Swedish: ^{(please verify)} uppkopplad (sv) (1)
Thai: ^{(please verify)} ออนไลน์ (th) (on-lai)
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} çevrimiçi (tr)
Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} trực tuyến (vi)

Adverb[edit]

online (not comparable)

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.

Translations[edit]

performed over Internet

Afrikaans: aanlyn (af)
Armenian: առցանց (hy) (aṙcʿancʿ)
Esperanto: interrete
Finnish: verkossa (fi), verkko- (fi), online- (fi)
Greek: ονλαιν (onlain)
Malay: dalam talian
Polish: online (pl)
Portuguese: online (pt)

Verb[edit]

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

(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.

Anagrams[edit]

El Nino, El Niño, Lonnie

Dutch[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

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

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Adverb[edit]

online

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

Adjective[edit]

online (not comparable)

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

Inflection[edit]

Inflection 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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English online.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈonlɑi̯n/, [ˈo̞nlɑi̯n]

Adverb[edit]

online

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[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

loinen

German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English online.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈɔnlaɪ̯n/
(file)

Adjective[edit]

online (indeclinable, predicative only)

online
Antonym: offline

Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English online.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Adjective[edit]

online (not comparable)

online

Declension[edit]

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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English online.

Adjective[edit]

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

online

Anagrams[edit]

Linneo, lenoni, linone, nonile

Malay[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English online.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Adjective[edit]

online

(proscribed) online
Permainan online ― Online games

Antonym: luar talian

Synonyms: (proscribed) atas talian, dalam talian

Polish[edit]

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

online

Wikipedia ^pl

Alternative forms[edit]

on-line, on line, onlajn

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English online.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ɔnˈlajn/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɔnlajn
Syllabification: on‧line

Adjective[edit]

online (not comparable)

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

Adverb[edit]

online (not comparable)

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

Noun[edit]

online m inan

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

Declension[edit]

Declension of online

	singular
nominative	online
genitive	online'u
dative	online'owi
accusative	online
instrumental	online'em
locative	onlinie
vocative	onlinie

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adjective

onlinowy

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adverb

onlinowo

Portuguese[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

on-line

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English online.

Pronunciation[edit]

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /õˈlaj.ni/ [õˈlaɪ̯.ni]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /õˈlaj.ne/ [õˈlaɪ̯.ne]

Adjective[edit]

online (invariable)

online (connected to the Internet)
O computador está online.
The computer is online.

Synonym: conectado
online (which takes place over the Internet)
Comunicação online.
Online communication.

Synonyms: eletrónico, em linha

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English online.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Adjective[edit]

online (invariable)

online

Usage notes[edit]

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.

Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English online.

Adjective[edit]

online

online
Synonyms: çevrim içi, çevrimiçi

online

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