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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Offline adv. Not now or not here. "Let's take this discussion offline." Specifically used on Usenet to suggest that a discussion be moved off a public newsgroup to email. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: OFFLINE |
| Specialty definitions using "OFFLINE": America's Multimedia Online ♦ inquiry/response system ♦ Never Offline, NOL ♦ SYSKEY, System Account Manager ♦ volume shadowing. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "OFFLINE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (off-line). |
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Screenplays | Nobody is going offline during my watch. (Beast Machines: Transformers; writing credit: Nick Dubois) Now we can all go offline together. (Beast Machines: Transformers; writing credit: Nick Dubois) | |
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| "OFFLINE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 79.01% of the time. "OFFLINE" is used about 485 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 79.01% | 384 | 14,347 |
| Adverb (general) | 20.99% | 102 | 32,309 |
| Total | 100.00% | 485 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "OFFLINE": never Offline. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "OFFLINE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 离线. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | off-line (off-line), indirekte styret (off-line), indirekte (indirect), autonom (autonomic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ontkoppeld (off-line), offline (off-line), niet gekoppeld (off-line). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | itsenäinen (autonomous, independent, self-governing, sovereign), erillinen (detached, separate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | hors ligne (off-line), en non connexion (off-line), en non connecté (off-line), autonome (off line, off-line). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | offline (off-line), unabhängig (abandoned, freelance, independantly, independent, independently, nonpartisan, self contained, sovereign, unattached). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | off line (off-line). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fuori linea (off-line, stand-alone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | オフ会 (object, objection, object-oriented, observer, offline meeting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | オフかい (offline meeting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | "로잇기로. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | offlineay fora de linha (off-line), autónomo (autonomous, off-line, self-contained, stand-alone). (various references) fuera de línea (off-line), desconectado (desultory, disconnected, loose, off-line, unconnected), autónomo (autonomic, autonomous, freelance, self contained, self-employed, self-governed, self-governing, stand alone). (various references) fristående arbetssätt,offline-arbetssätt (off-line). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"OFFLINE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: offlines, Pfafflin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-f-i-l-n-o" | |
-1 letter: olefin. | |
-2 letters: elfin, eloin, felon, olein. | |
-3 letters: enol, fief, fife, file, filo, fine, fino, floe, foil, foin, info, leno, lief, lien, life, line, lino, lion, loin, lone, neif, noel, noil. | |
-4 letters: eff, elf, eon, fen, fie, fil, fin, foe, fon, iff, ion, lei, lie, lin, nil, off, oil, ole, one. | |
-5 letters: ef, el, en, if. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-f-i-l-n-o" | |
+2 letters: effluxion. | |
+3 letters: effluxions. | |
+4 letters: affectional, forefeeling, offensively. | |
+5 letters: efflorescing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 46 46 4C 49 4E 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- ..-. ..-. .-.. .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01000110 01000110 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O F F L I N E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0046 0046 004C 0049 004E 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)49404046434839 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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