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offline

or off-line, off line

[ awf-lahyn, of- ]

adjective

  1. Computers. operating independently of, or disconnected from, an associated computer.
  2. Radio. (of a network) not supplying affiliated stations with programming but allowing each station to program its own shows, usually within a specific format.
  3. Television. of or relating to the preliminary planning and editing of a videotaped program.
  4. located in or serving a place not on a regular route of a railroad, bus, or air carrier:

    an offline ticket office.



adverb

  1. in or to a more private place:

    We should take this discussion offline.

offline

/ ˈɒfˌlaɪn /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or concerned with a part of a computer system not connected to the central processing unit but controlled by a computer storage device See online
  2. disconnected from a computer; switched off
  3. extra to or not involving a continuous sequence of operations, such as a production line
  4. radio television (of processes, such as editing) not carried out on the actual transmission medium
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adverb

  1. while not connected to a computer or the internet
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of offline1

First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences

Notion, the online workspace startup that was last year valued at over $2 billion, was knocked offline after a DNS outage.

Like Zocdoc, it’s about centralizing information and sharing it across organizations—except it happens mostly offline.

Soon, Williams used his power as the Web address owner to knock TheDonald offline.

Consumers leverage online research to inform their offline activities, as we well know.

Since it can be easily removed from your computer and kept offline, an external hard drive allows you to safely and securely store files without any risk of remote intrusion.

On and offline, offenses ranged from awful Tinder messages to violent threats on Twitter to street stalking.

They maintain that the initial radicalization tends to occur offline before it is then reinforced online.

She found that, for the most part, they were mainstream leaders offline, too.

Adobe claims that their cloud apps will work offline as well.

With several of his key advisers offline, Snowden crafted his question for Putin.

My character was a swabbie on the pirate ship Zombie Charger, and he'd wound down while I'd been offline.

Your friend here tells me your systems have been offline for more than a month.

Lil was upset—even through my bemused, offline haze, I could tell that.

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