Citations:offline

English citations of offline

Verb

• 2012 April 1, John Larkin, Lasagne Brain, Lothian Children's Books, →ISBN:

  And in the muckabout game in the dunes, they'd let him be Ally McBealrather than DavidBeckham, Harry Kewellor Mark Viduka.Not that he'd be putting any of ... 'Heard you offlined anotherteacher lastFriday.' 'She'll be back,' said Eric, […]

• 2021 January 26, L. X. Beckett, Dealbreaker, Tor Books, →ISBN:

  ... being stabbed at the base of the spine, with a fork, having her meat tested for doneness, before her body offlined. ... This had been a bit of a game of chicken—Diplomatic had pointed out that there'd be a cash charge for using the […]

• 2011, Ryan Grabow, Caffeine, egrabow.com, page 27:

  The game was ending. I slowly moved my hand to my descender, ... I cursed when the booth's panel only buzzed at me, kicking the door from the inside until it offlined itself. I stepped into the hallway and waited for the fog to clear in […]

• 2020 June 5, Collin Piprell, MOM: Magic Circles Book 1, Proglen Trading Co., Ltd., →ISBN:

  Quickest way there is to get offlined. All that, yet here it is a Monday and he's in Ellie's World on the ... He can't bring himself to play even that much of the game. Ellie steps closer. She hauls up the front of her dress and shows […]

• 2019 September 17, L. X. Beckett, Gamechanger, Tor Books, →ISBN:

  She drew the police line around the area where the cameras, mics, and uplinks had been offlined. ... Crane said you formed a redtooth link to my gaming baton. That's serious hacker stuff, Luce. Difficult and criminal.

• 2007 08, “Maximum PC”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 9:

  The attacks offlined many of the government-run sites, rendering the country's digital infrastructure unusable. ... Byte magazine and is now an analyst for Microprocessor Report. ff 09 GAME THEORY THOMAS * MCDONALD The Road to Somewhere I.

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Portuguese citations of offline

Adjective: distracted (having one's attention diverted)

• 2008, Luciano R. Rodrigues, Ted, Clube de Autores, page 74:

  — Hoje eu pago o almoço! — Mariel aparecera de supetão, me tirara de minhas divagações e me fizera perceber que eu estava offline, ao invés de trabalhar.