alight vs online

alight

adj
  • Of an electrical light source: switched on and emitting light. 

  • Often followed by with: shining with light; luminous, radiant; also, brightly coloured; vivid. 

  • Aglow with activity or emotion. 

  • Burning, lit, on fire. 

verb
  • Often followed by on or upon: to find by accident; to chance upon, to come upon. 

  • Often followed by from or off: to get off an animal which one has been riding; to dismount; to descend or exit from a vehicle; hence, to complete one's journey; to stop. 

  • Often followed by at, on, or upon: of something aloft: to descend and settle; to land, to lodge, to rest. 

adv
  • Chiefly in set alight: in flames, on fire; aflame. 

online

adj
  • Of a generator or power plant: connected to the grid. 

  • Available over, or delivered from, the Internet. 

  • Of a computer: actively connected to the Internet or to some other communications service. 

  • Connected to the Internet. 

  • Available on a computer system, even if not networked. 

  • Of a system: active, particularly building facilities (such as power) or a factory or power plant. 

  • Immersed in Internet culture. (Usually modified by an intensifier such as extremely or terminally) 

verb
  • To bring (a system, etc.) online; to promote to an active or running state. 

adv
  • While online; while in a running or active state, or connected to the Internet. 

How often have the words alight and online occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )