Cyber vs Online - What's the difference?
cyber | online |
Pertaining to the Internet;
(informal) Cybergoth.
* 1998 , Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines, Gothic: four hundred years of excess, horror, evil, and ruin
* 2007 , Tiffany Godoy, Ivan Vartanian, Style Deficit Disorder: Harajuku Street Fashion, Tokyo
* 2007 , Raven Digitalis, Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture
Describes a system which is connected (generally electrically) to a larger network.
# Describes a generator or power plant which is connected to the grid.
# Describes a computer which is connected to the Internet or to some other communications service – i.e., not simply with the cable plugged in, but has established a connection to a larger network (e.g., by dialing up).
Available over, or delivered from, the Internet.
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Connected to the Internet.
Available on a computer system, even if not networked.
Describes a system that is active, particularly building facilities (such as power) or a factory or power plant.
As adjectives the difference between cyber and online
is that cyber is pertaining to the Internet; an alternative spelling of nocap=1|lang=en while online is describes a system which is connected (generally electrically) to a larger network.As a verb cyber
is to engage in cybersex.As an adverb online is
describes actions performed over the Internet.cyber
English
Adjective
(-)- 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.
- ...a cross between metal, punk, goth, cyber , and rock.
- No CyberGoth is complete without gigantic "stompy" platform boots and the optional toy ray gun. Some are even more anachronistic in that they incorporate old Renaissance and Victorian styles into their much-loved cyber wear.
Derived terms
* noncyberSee also
* cyber- *Anagrams
*online
English
(wikipedia online)Alternative forms
* on-lineAdjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.}}