different between cyber vs online

English

Etymology

Originally from cybernetics, before becoming a stand-alone word.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s??.b?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sa?.b??/
• Hyphenation: cy?ber
• Rhymes: -a?b?(r)

Adjective

cyber (not comparable)

1. Of, or having to do with, the Internet; alternative spelling of cyber-
2. (informal) Cybergoth.
   • 1998, Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines, Gothic: four hundred years of excess, horror, evil, and ruin

     She is a high priestess of the Church of the SubGenius, a devotee of the music of Tom Waits and Robert Smith, and of goth and cyber subcultures.

   • 2007, Tiffany Godoy, Ivan Vartanian, Style Deficit Disorder: Harajuku Street Fashion, Tokyo

     ...a cross between metal, punk, goth, cyber, and rock.

Derived terms

• cyberly
• noncyber

Verb

cyber (third-person singular simple present cybers, present participle cybering, simple past and past participle cybered)

1. (slang) To engage in cybersex.

   Wanna cyber?

Noun

cyber

1. (singular only) Everything having to do with the Internet considered collectively.
   • 2004, Henry Linger, Julie Fisher, W. Gregory Wojtkowski, Constructing the Infrastructure for the Knowledge Economy: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice

     These prefigure the more complex aspects of virtual and real interactions which the cyber will deliver to us in these early years of the new millennium.

   • 2012, Sean Swan (Ed), On the Cyber

     The pace and extent to which the cyber is transforming our world increases daily.

See also

• cyber-
• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

Anagrams

• Bryce, becry

English

Alternative forms

• on-line

Etymology

1950, from on +? line.

Pronunciation

• Attributive: enPR: ?n'l?n", IPA^(key): /??n?la?n/
• Predicative: enPR: ?nl?n', IPA^(key): /?n?la?n/

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.

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)

Antonyms

• (connected to larger network): offline
• (available on a computer system): hardcopy
• (online business): brick and mortar

Derived terms

• massive open online course (MOOC)
• online newspaper

Descendants

Translations

Adverb

online (not comparable)

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

Translations

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): /?n?l?i?n/, (chiefly attributive and in compounds) /??n.l?i?n/
• 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]

Inflection

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?onl?i?n/, [?o?nl?i?n]

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

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English online.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?onla?jn]
• Hyphenation: on?line
• Rhymes: -a?jn

Adjective

online (not comparable)

1. online

Declension

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English online.

Adjective

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

1. online

Anagrams

• lenoni, Linneo, nonile

Polish

Etymology

From English online.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n.lajn/

Adverb

online (not comparable)

1. online (performed over Internet)

Further reading

• online in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• online in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• on-line

Etymology

Borrowed from English online.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /õ.?laj.ni/

Adjective

online (invariable, comparable)

1. online (connected to the Internet)

   Synonym: conectado

2. online (which takes place over the Internet)

   Synonyms: electrónico, em linha

Spanish

Etymology

From English online.

Adjective

online (invariable)

1. online