online

See also: on line and on-line

English

Alternative forms

• on-line

Etymology

1950, from on +‎ line.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US) (attributive use)

  (file)

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^[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.

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^[2]:

     To borrow an idiom from the extremely online, late Godard is a mood.

Antonyms

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

Derived terms

• massive open online course (MOOC)
• online newspaper

Descendants

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

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)
• Welsh: ar lein

available over the Internet

• Armenian: առցանց (hy) (aṙcʿancʿ)
• 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
• 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
• 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: onlie
• 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)
• 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, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. 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

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.

Translations

performed over Internet

• Afrikaans: aanlyn (af)
• Armenian: առցանց (hy) (aṙcʿancʿ)
• Finnish: verkossa (fi), verkko- (fi), online- (fi)
• Greek: ονλαιν (onlain)

• Malay: dalam talian
• Polish: online (pl)
• Portuguese: online (pt)

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

• come online

Anagrams

• El Nino, El Niño, Lonnie

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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/
• Hyphenation: on‧li‧ne

Adverb

online

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

Adjective

online (not comparable)

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

Inflection

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

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈonlɑi̯n/, [ˈo̞nlɑi̯n]

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

• online-kaupankäynti
• onlinejärjestelmä

Anagrams

• loinen

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German

Etymology

From English online.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔnlaɪ̯n/

• (file)

Adjective

online (not comparable)

1. online

   Antonym: offline

Further reading

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

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Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English online.

Pronunciation

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

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

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English online.

Adjective

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

1. online

Anagrams

• Linneo, lenoni, linone, nonile

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Polish

Etymology

From English online.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔn.lajn/

• Audio

  (file)

Adverb

online (not comparable)

1. online (performed over Internet)

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• on-line

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English online.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /õ.ˈlaj.ni/

Adjective

online (invariable, comparable)

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: electrónico, em linha

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English online.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌonˈlain/, [ˌõnˈlãĩn]

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.