What are some verbs for offlineness and online-ness?
What is the verb to enable and to disable if I refer to the status of something as disabled and enabled.
What are equivalent single words to the state of something being online and offline? So far I’ve got put online and take offline.
In online chats, the terms “to come online and go offline” are used. However, how do they differ?
Edit: Your own suggestion is another good variant, applicable if there is someone/something else that performs the operation. E.g. a computer (video for example) that does the operation. My friend went offline right in the middle of discussion vs. VMware. In all honesty, my friend went offline right now. We had to take the server offline for maintenance on it..
When “put online” and “take offline” are used for things like servers or services.
Why do users come online without trying when they go offline?
If the service is put offline, all users inside the service are forced to go offline.
In this day and age, if some resource is capable of being up and running at all, that’s its ‘normal’ status.
Sometimes the word offline gets used as a verb or as in “I need to offline the server”.
I don’t know of any similar usage for the opposite process (I’ve never come across “Online the server”, for instance). Most people just say “reconnect” or “put/get back online”..
If the context is correct (i.e. ok), why do our definitions change? it is established we are talking about something on the Internet) then you can say available and unavailable, although that’s for state and not a verb, so you’d end up saying make available and make unavailable which puts you in a similarly verbose position.
The verb “online” is not a verb, you cannot “online” something. Is it no longer possible to go online and go for work, but if it does, “go” is a verb?
It might be the case that you can think of “to go online” as a phrasal verb — I suspect that in the future, “to go online” will become an accepted phrasal verb, but I doubt that “online” itself will every become a verb.
How is a website inaccessible when it is there, and the use of it is irrelevant when you are using it?
EDIT: I’m not necessarily looking for one word. One option is activated / deactivated.
When you Log on
you are online. When you
Log off, you are offline. This is my two bits: log on and log off. Now
I am going to give up on blogging and I’ve forgotten my password. Now I’ve lost my password and I’ve failed!
