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immediate
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "intervening, interposed;" early 15c., "with nothing interposed; direct," also with reference to time, from Old French immediat , from Late Latin immediatus "without anything between," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. very close or connected in space or time; "contiguous events"; "immediate contact"; "the immediate vicinity"; "the immediate past" [syn: contiguous ] having no intervening medium; "an immediate influence" [ant: mediate ] immediately before or after ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Immediate may refer to: Immediate Records , a British record label The Immediate , an Irish rock group Immediate Media Company , British publishing house Immediate Music , library music company
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a short-term/immediate impact ▪ A military attack may only have a short-term impact on terrorist activity. an immediate ban ▪ The group has called for an immediate ban on fur farming. an immediate goal (= that you ...
Usage examples of immediate.
These observations arose out of a motion made by Lord Bathurst, who had been roughly handled by the mob on Friday, for an address praying that his majesty would give immediate orders for prosecuting, in the most effectual manner, the authors, abettors, and instruments of the outrages committed both in the vicinity of the houses of parliament and upon the houses and chapels of the foreign ministers.
Glenn Alien Abies and Charles Mellis are charged with serious crimes and pose an immediate threat to the community.
If it was possible to emerge from the field, it could only be done by an immediate switch to tachyonic drive without accelerative buildup .
The settlement of the civil list left ministers at liberty to move the immediate adjournment of the house.
If you scorn the maid at your window I will aerogram my immediate acceptance of a proposal of marriage that has been made to your poor Ada a month ago in Valentine State.
The victorious tribunes, in order that the people might reap an immediate benefit from the trial, publish a form of an agrarian law, and prevent the tax from being contributed, since there was need of pay for so great a number of troops, and the enterprises of the service were conducted with success in such a manner, that in none of the wars did they reach the consummation of their hope.
Though he had been ailing for years, as has been stated, yet his wonderful energy of mind made it appear to many that there was no immediate danger of his life.
Nature of the experiments--Effects of boiling water--Warm water causes rapid inflection--Water at a higher temperature does not cause immediate inflection, but does not kill the leaves, as shown by their subsequent reexpansion and by the aggregation of the protoplasm--A still higher temperature kills the leaves and coagulates the albuminous contents of the glands.
Seregil inhaled the familiar morning smells of the tower as he and Alec headed up to the workroom the next morning- the mingled incense of parchment, candle smoke, and herbs overlaid with the more immediate aromas of breakfast.
In both cases amelioration is a matter of intelligent experimental contrivance based upon the nature of immediate conditions and equipped with every available resource and weapon.
Inhalation of the vapor of anhydrous prussic will cause immediate death--so quickly, it is said, that scarcely any symptoms can be observed.
The change of animus to anima would lead to an immediate political and social and economic upheaval.
An ambiguous passage of Theophanes persuaded the annalist of the church that death was the immediate consequence of this barbarous execution.
Monday, but from the gross, it looks like the immediate cause of death was a ruptured aortic valve.
The tabloid future, with its mechanism of a hopeful twist to apocalyptic events, was perhaps not so very remote from our own immediate experience.