online

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Available over, or delivered from, the Internet.

   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%.

2. 2
   adj

   Connected to the Internet.

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

3. 3
   adj

   Available on a computer system, even if not networked.

   Press the F1 key to access the online help.

4. 4
   adj

   Of a system: active, particularly building facilities (such as power) or a factory or power plant.

   The power is online.

5. 5
   adj

   Immersed in Internet culture. (Usually modified by an intensifier such as extremely or terminally)

   terminally online

6. 6
   adv

   While online; while in a running or active state, or connected to the Internet.

   He works online.

7. 7
   verb

   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.

8. 8
   adj

   being in progress now

Etymology

1950, from on + line.