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on-line

online \on"line`\, on-line \on"-line`\adj.

  1. 1 (Computers) connected by a communications line to a computer. Opposite of off-line.

    Syn: online, on line(predicate).

  2. [prenominal] being in progress now; ongoing; as, on-line editorial projects. [Colloq.]

    Syn: in progress(predicate), ongoing, on line(predicate).

Wiktionary
on-line

a. (alternative spelling of online English) adv. (alternative spelling of online English)

WordNet
on-line
  1. adj. on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system; "on-line industries" [ant: off-line]

  2. connected to a computer network or accessible by computer; "an on-line database" [ant: off-line]

  3. being in progress now; "on-line editorial projects" [syn: on-line(a)]

Usage examples of "on-line".

After an hour of on-line searching for a technical vulnerability that would give him access to a main development server, he hit the jackpot.

The reception clerk was coming through coherently now that ZORAC was on-line to translate.

Nou-menal Mentality, corrupting and erasing every version of his personality that came on-line, reproducing and hiding and reproducing again, waiting nanoseconds or centuries, howsoever long it should take, in case any copies of Phaethon stored somewhere else ever connected once more with the Mentality, and then waking to strike him down again.

If that was the case, if Huer was on-line or close to it, Kemal still had a chance.

So, he passes me back to DeepSpace, which shunts me to Lariat, and Colonel Eatinger gets on-line, who hands me off to Styx while he goes dweeb-hunting.

Aikawa repeated, reading the name which had appeared as the incoming merchantship brought its transponder on-line and CIC updated the plot.

More than 200 cheat-sites have sprung up, with thousands of papers available on-line and tens of thousands of satisfied plagiarists the world over.

From his organization, the conglomerate orchestrated the printing and distribution of one hundred seventy-six newspapers, twelve magazines, seventeen on-line research companies and united two hundred seven affiliate newsrooms across the U.

Then she could leave the barge, walk back into the city, find a way to cancel the Eternal Forgetting, and get herself on-line, safe from amplitude decay.

She heaved a raspy breath and reached for another cigcome on-line in a particular file would be the moral arette, but only held it between her fingers.

I suspect that what few nanites Pek has managed to bring back on-line will be assimilated, now that the microwave pulse is nonfunctional and the Ushekti nanites are no longer isolated.

We sat in silence, reluctant to take the machine on-line, to bring up the doctored version of programs whose results, both digital and analog, we had no way of forecasting.

The only analogy Orion could think of that made any sense at all was that it felt as if he were some brilliantly made machine and the fusion generator that powered it had just come on-line.

The Merchant was the mysterious on-line broker who had sold Arcadia and Zoe their new identities when they escaped from the asylum.

Winchester, for one, scrawny and greying, who had been on the nets since the invention of the dollie-slot, and was syscop, the on-line legal authority, for one of the official public spaces.