Synonyms for online
on·line

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1. onlineadjective

   connected to the internet

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

   Antonyms:
   offline

Princeton's WordNet

1. on-line, onlineadjective

   being in progress now

   "on-line editorial projects"

2. on-line, onlineadjective

   connected to a computer network or accessible by computer

   "an on-line database"

3. on-line, onlineadjective

   on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system

   "on-line industries"

Matched Categories

1. • Computer Science
   • Transportation

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1. List of paraphrases for "online":

   on-line, inline, in-line, on-screen, internet, over-the-air, web-based, onscreen, electronic, line, web, ota, e-campaign, live, cyber, e-learning

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How to use online in a sentence?

1. Xavier Becerra:

   This suit was brought by power brokers who have an obvious financial interest in maintaining their stronghold on the public's access to online content. California, the country's economic engine, has the right to exercise its sovereign powers under the Constitution and we will do everything we can to protect the right of our 40 million consumers to access information by defending a free and open Internet.

2. Michael Schmidt:

   We made a minor change to the story shortly after it went online that said the investigation was in connection with her email use, it didn't really deviate our story much from where we were before.

3. White House:

   H.R. 1 would prohibit commonsense efforts to clean up voting-rolls to limit opportunities for voting fraud, the bill would also require States to adopt online registration, same-day registration, and automatic voter registration, thus imposing a one-size-fits-all standard for weighing the competing values of voter access and voting integrity.

4. Alistair Wittet:

   Consumers are changing shopping habits. Instead of shopping in secondary locations they're shopping online but they're still valuing the super-prime flagship stores, that's the thinking behind the Inditex strategy - to close the secondary stores and enlarge and improve their flagship stores.

5. Jan Harzan:

   Meanwhile, with the explosion of cell phones, video cameras, and print and online media reports, both past and present — as well as tens of thousands of paper UFO files collected by MUFON prior to 2006 — the need to be able to have all this data in one place and easily correlated is all the more important.