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What does online mean?
Definitions in simple English

online

If a system is online, it is connected (generally electronically) to a larger network. I do a lot of shopping online, so I almost never have to leave the house. If a machine is online, it is turned on and is ready to do work. Since the printer is back online, you should be able to again print from it.

online

(= on-line) on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system on-line industries (= on-line) connected to a computer network or accessible by computer an on-line database (= on-line) being in progress now on-line editorial projects

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Simple sentences

Before beginning to shop at this online store please familiarize yourself with these store policies.
It almost scared me not to see you online for a whole day.
The French government has launched an online game that challenges taxpayers to balance the national budget.
She is never online, even during her vacation.
I am online.
Online, businesses can export all over the world.
Some of the most sociable people I know have friends both online and off-.
He met his wife online.
I've only been online for ten minutes.
I sell clothing online.
As soon as I can get a decent video camera, I'll start making videos to put online.
The Tatoeba Project, which can be found online at tatoeba.org, is working on creating a large database of example sentences translated into many languages.
Tom had trouble getting online.
It scares me not to see you online the entire day.
He spends all his time chatting online on Jabber.
This generation of online daters, far more native to the Internet, are a lot less awkward than the first generation.
He found out this information online.

Movie subtitles

I was just reading this thing online.
I watched an online tutorial.
How about I just post it online and get some feedback for you?
How is this online?!
You shot the video, your kid posted it online, and it was your idea to fire Jason.
You know, they cooked, they bought art, they went to Iceland, which I know, because I stalked Coco online until 2:00 a.m. last night.
Get him online.
We just hit 12 million subscribers online right now.
We're back online.
I've been getting my butcher's license online.
Colonel Deering online.
The Online is dead!
But it is with you online and soldered by my accuser.
Five times that many read it online. Yeah, well, that was last month. This is this month.
So, the play is a love triangle between Hero and his boyfriend, Coma Boy, who's in a coma, and Hope, some girl he meets online?
The Northern Center is online.
I want the company jet brought online immediately. Have a helicopter standing by at Norton Air Force Base.
Bring the attack computer online and stand by for turbo ignition.
Actually, I first went online in a mainframe in Washington, but the government bureaucracy never suited me.
Triax remote guidance system engaged and online. I assume you've spoken to the Leader.
The guards will know when we're online.
The situation will come online.
It's online.
Dr. Ludlum has decided to go without guards once the system's online.
This system must remain online.
The system must remain online during a stage-one aler.
The system must remain online.
We'II never get anywhere while Sandi's still online.
I'm sorry. I went online today, and I got you a vintage tux with a hole in it, that I'm gonna patch over with a swatch from your father's radiology scrubs.
Let's look for a tutorial online.
Before he died, Mr Cleaver posted some of his findings online. Did he?
Online and locked.
Zen, put the asymmetric thrust computer online. and set to automatic course correction.
Slave, any crash systems still functioning put them online.
Put the automatics online.
Everybody online.
Are you online?
Coming online now.
Online.
The security net is online.

News and current affairs

Having written a book about the hijacking of executive power in the United States in the Bush years, I found myself, in researching new developments, stumbling upon conversations online that embrace narratives of behind-the-scenes manipulation.
They should organize new online entities in which they pay a fee for direct investigative reporting, unmediated by corporate pressures.
Moreover, cultural differences impede any broad agreements on regulating online content.
By linking together, and putting their curricula online, the world's universities can become even more effective in discovering and promoting science-based solutions to complex problems.
In answering such questions, advances in science and technology (for example, new methods of energy production, surveillance, or online learning) will have a key role to play.
The Panel will also take advantage of extensive online and offline efforts to engage with people worldwide and gain insight into the future that they envision.
It also makes one wonder whether a creative genius like Fischer, deeply troubled yet supremely functional at the chessboard, would be able to exist in today's unforgiving online world.
One suspects that in today's online world, Fischer's paranoia and personal flaws would have tripped him up long before he became champion.
In China, three-quarters of Internet users get online via mobile phones already; in Ethiopia and Uganda, four out of five do.
Meanwhile, Square, Paypal, and the start-up company Affirm are already processing a large share of online payments.
Online commerce is offsetting some of the other weaker areas of the economy, and its full impact might actually be underreported in official statistics.
Today, the average online lifespan of proxy servers in China is a mere 30 minutes, and 17,000 Internet cafes have been shut down.
In China, only the educated and relatively privileged can take part in online discussion.
But it has also been developing a sophisticated political and technological system to control online information.
Nine-year-old Saudi girls chat online, disregarding fatwas issued by Wahhabi clerics that forbid them access to the Internet without the supervision of a male guardian.
The program has caused a tsunami of online reflection.
Patient groups are already organized; their members can report their symptoms online and self-enroll in clinical trials.
For example, while endlessly worrying about the existence of dangerous material online, we could do more to educate our youth in the critical thinking skills needed to dismiss such content.
Most parents are barely able to keep up with the evolving technology, let alone oversee their children's online conversations.
Second, governments should support those groups that are already working on the ground and online to counter extremism.
Online discussion of current events, especially through internet bulletin boards, is another new phenomenon.
However, within these boundaries, internet-enabled activism, such as online petitions, have not only expanded the boundaries of traditional media reporting, but presaged some interesting new political consequences as well.

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