Meaning

Of a system: connected (generally electrically) to a larger network..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of a system: connected (generally electrically) to a larger network.
2. Available over, or delivered from, the Internet.
3. Connected to the Internet.
4. Available on a computer system, even if not networked.
5. Of a system: active, particularly building facilities (such as power) or a factory or power plant.
6. (slang) Immersed in Internet culture. (Usually modified by an intensifier such as extremely or terminally)
7. While online; while in a running or active state, or connected to the Internet.
8. (computing, transitive) To bring (a system, etc.) online; to promote to an active or running state.

Example Sentences

I prefer to read online newspapers.

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%.

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

I'll be online tonight, so I'll be able to reply to your email.

Press the F1 key to access the online help.

The program comes with an online manual, supplied on compact disc.

The power is online.

Once this factory comes online, it will double car production in our country!

Word Forms

• more online
• most online
• on-line
• onlines
• onlining
• onlined

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Use on line when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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