online

See also: on line and on-line

English

Alternative forms

• on-line

Etymology

1950, from on +‎ line.

Pronunciation

• Attributive:
  • enPR: ŏn'līn"
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒnlaɪn/
    • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔnlaɪn/
    • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɑnlaɪn/

      • Audio (California):

        (file)

    • (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɔnlɑɪn/
• Predicative:
  • enPR: ŏnlīn'
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɒnˈlaɪn/
    • (General American) IPA^(key): /ɔnˈlaɪn/
    • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɑnˈlaɪn/
    • (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɔnˈlɑɪn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn

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%.

   • 2024 May 4, John Naughton, “The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     The online world was meant to be an open system but has become dominated by huge corporations.

   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^[3]:

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

Antonyms

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

Derived terms

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

Descendants

Descendants of online

• → 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

• Basque: sarean
• Bulgarian: свъ́рзан (bg) (svǎ́rzan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 網上／网上 (zh) (wǎngshàng), 線上／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)
• Italian: in linea, online (it)
• Japanese: オンライン (ja) (onrain)
• Korean: 온라인 (ko) (onnain)
• Malay: dalam talian
• Maori: tuihono
• Marathi: ऑनलाइन (ŏnlāin)
• Norman: brantchi
• Persian: آنلاین (ânlâyn), برخط (fa) (barxat), درون خط (darun-e xat), روی خط (ruy-e xat)
• 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
• Tok Pisin: onlain
• Turkish: çevrim içi (tr)
• Ukrainian: онла́йн (onlájn), онла́йновий (uk) (onlájnovyj)
• Urdu: روئے ربط (rū-ey-rabt), آن لائن (ān-lā'in), انٹرنیٹ پر (inṭarneṭ par)
• Walloon: raloyî (wa) m
• Welsh: ar lein

available over the Internet

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

connected to the Internet

• Armenian: առցանց (hy) (aṙcʻancʻ)
• Basque: sarean
• 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, in linea, online (it)
• Malay: dalam talian
• Manx: er-linney
• Maori: ā-ipurangi, tuihono
• Marathi: ऑनलाइन (ŏnlāin)
• Norman: brantchi
• Polish: online (pl)
• 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)
• Tagalog: onlayn
• Tok Pisin: onlain
• Turkish: açık (tr), çevrim içi (tr), online (tr)
• Ukrainian: в мере́жі́ (v meréží), у мере́жі́ (u meréží)
• Walloon: raloyî (wa) m
• Welsh: ar lein

available on a computer system

• Armenian: առցանց (hy) (aṙcʻancʻ)
• 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 (ʕalā l-ʔintarnat), ^{(please verify)} أُونْلَايْن (ʔonlayn)
• 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／在线 (zh) (zàixiàn), ^{(please verify)} 在线 (zh) (zàixiàn), ^{(please verify)} 上網／上网 (zh) (shàngwǎng), ^{(please verify)} 上网 (zh) (shàngwǎng), ^{(please verify)} 聯機／联机 (liánjī), ^{(please verify)} 联机 (liánjī), ^{(please verify)} 線上／线上 (zh) (xiànshàng), ^{(please verify)} 线上 (zh) (xiànshàng), ^{(please verify)} 網上／网上 (zh) (wǎngshàng), ^{(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
• 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, Jerusha Hess, Napoleon Dynamite (motion picture), 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) (aṙcʻancʻ)
• Esperanto: interrete
• Finnish: verkossa (fi), verkko- (fi), online- (fi)
• Greek: ονλαιν (onlain)
• Malay: dalam talian
• Maori: tuihono
• Marathi: ऑनलाइन (ŏnlāin)
• Polish: online (pl)
• Portuguese: online (pt)
• Tok Pisin: onlain

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

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/

• Audio:

  (file)

• 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]

Declension

Declension 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

Etymology

From English online.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈonlɑi̯n/, [ˈo̞nlɑ̝i̯n]

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

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English online.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔnlaɪ̯n/

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

online (indeclinable, predicative only)

1. online

   Antonym: offline

Further reading

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

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English online.

Adjective

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

1. online

Anagrams

• Linneo, lenoni, linone, nonile

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English online.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

online

1. (proscribed) online

   Synonyms: (proscribed) atas talian, dalam talian

   Antonym: luar talian

   Permainan online ― Online games

Polish

Alternative forms

• on-line, on line, onlajn

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English online.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔnˈlajn/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ajn
• Syllabification: on‧line

Adjective

online (not comparable, no derived adverb)

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

   Coordinate term: offline

Adverb

online (not comparable)

1. (Internet) online (performed over Internet)

   Coordinate term: offline

Noun

online m inan

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

   Coordinate term: offline

Declension

Declension of online

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

Derived terms

adjective

• onlinowy

 

Related terms

adverb

• onlinowo

 

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• on-line

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English online.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /õˈlaj.ni/ [õˈlaɪ̯.ni]

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌɔnˈlaj.nɨ/

Adjective

online (invariable)

1. online (connected to the Internet)

   Synonym: conectado

   O computador está online.

   The computer is online.

2. online (which takes place over the Internet)

   Synonyms: eletrónico, em linha

   Comunicação online.

   Online communication.

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English online.

Pronunciation

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

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.

Swedish

Alternative forms

• on-line

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English online. First attested in 1969.

Adjective

online (not comparable)

1. online.

   Synonym: uppkopplad

   • 2023 May 10, “Unga i våldsamma relationer söker ofta stöd online [Young people in violent relationships often seek support online]”, in Forskning:

     En ny studie har undersökt våld mot unga i nära parrelationer. Studien, som genomförts av forskare vid Stockholms universitet, visar att behovet att söka anonymt stöd online är stort.

     A new study has investigated violence against young people in intimate partner relationships. The study, which was carried out by researchers at Stockholm University, shows that the need to seek anonymous support online is great.

   • 1969 September 16, Arbetet‎^[4], page 6:

     Det är Sveriges första on-line-kopplade bankomat — den står alltså i direkt förbindelse med bankens datamaskin som […]

     It is Sweden's first on-line connected ATM — it is hence directly connected to the bank's computer which […]

   • 1964 July 13, Svenska Dagbladet‎^[5], page 2:

     […] online system direkt anknutet till SAS världsomspännande nät för […]

     […] online system directly connected to SAS worldwide network for […]

Turkish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English online.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

online

1. online

   Synonyms: çevrim içi, çevrimiçi

   Antonyms: çevrim dışı, offline

Declension

predicative forms of online

present tense
	positive, declarative	positive, interrogative	negative, declarative	negative, interrogative
ben (I am)	onlineım	online mıyım?	online değilim	online değil miyim?
sen (you are)	onlinesın	online mısın?	online değilsin	online değil misin?
o (he/she/it is)	online / onlinedır	online mı?	online değil	online değil mi?
biz (we are)	onlineız	online mıyız?	online değiliz	online değil miyiz?
siz (you are)	onlinesınız	online mısınız?	online değilsiniz	online değil misiniz?
onlar (they are)	online(lar)	online(lar) mı?	online değil(ler)	online değiller mi?
past tense
	positive, declarative	positive, interrogative	negative, declarative	negative, interrogative
ben (I was)	onlinedım	online mıydım?	online değildim	online değil miydim?
sen (you were)	onlinedın	online mıydın?	online değildin	online değil miydin?
o (he/she/it was)	onlinedı	online mıydı?	online değildi	online değil miydi?
biz (we were)	onlinedık	online mıydık?	online değildik	online değil miydik?
siz (you were)	onlinedınız	online mıydınız?	online değildiniz	online değil miydiniz?
onlar (they were)	onlinedılar	online mıydılar?	online değildi(ler) / değillerdi	online değil miydiler?
indirect past
	positive, declarative	positive, interrogative	negative, declarative	negative, interrogative
ben (I was)	onlinemışım	online mıymışım?	online değilmişim	online değil miymişim?
sen (you were)	onlinemışsın	online mıymışsın?	online değilmişsin	online değil miymişsin?
o (he/she/it was)	onlinemış	online mıymış?	online değilmiş	online değil miymiş?
biz (we were)	onlinemışız	online mıymışız?	online değilmişiz	online değil miymişiz?
siz (you were)	onlinemışsınız	online mıymışsınız?	online değilmişsiniz	online değil miymişsiniz?
onlar (they were)	onlinemışlar	online mıymışlar?	online değilmiş(ler) / değillermiş	online değil miymişler?
conditional
	positive, declarative	positive, interrogative	negative, declarative	negative, interrogative
ben (if I)	onlinesam	online mıysam?	online değilsem	online değil miysem?
sen (if you)	onlinesan	online mıysan?	online değilsen	online değil miysen?
o (if he/she/it)	onlinesa	online mıysa?	online değilse	online değil miyse?
biz (if we)	onlinesak	online mıysak?	online değilsek	online değil miysek?
siz (if you)	onlinesanız	online mıysanız?	online değilseniz	online değil miyseniz?
onlar (if they)	onlinesalar	online mıysalar?	online değilseler / değillerse	online değil miyseler?

Further reading

• "online" - in Tureng Dictionary