(a.) Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.
(a.) Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.
(a.) Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly; as, an immediate cause.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bronchial challenge caused an immediate asthmatic response.
(2) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
(3) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
(4) However, the presence of these two molecules was restored if testosterone was supplemented immediately after orchiectomy.
(5) Immediate postexercise two-dimensional echocardiography demonstrated exercise-induced changes in 8 (47%) patients (2 with normal and 6 with abnormal results from rest studies).
(6) Determination of plasma luteinizing hormone (LH) levels in the peripubertal female rats revealed that plasma LH was increased transiently immediately after NPY administration.
(7) 2.39pm BST The European Union called for a "thorough and immediate" investigation of the alleged chemical attack.
(8) I would immediately look askance at anyone who lacks the last and possesses the first.
(9) The results indicated that smoke, as opposed to sham puffs, significantly reduced reports of cigarette craving, and local anesthesia significantly blocked this immediate reduction in craving produced by smoke inhalation.
(10) Earlier this month, Khamenei insisted that all sanctions be lifted immediately on a deal being reached, a condition that the US State Department dismissed.
(11) The treatment was started either immediately or delayed for 48 h after peritoneal inoculation.
(12) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
(13) United believe it is more likely the right-back can be bought in the summer but are exploring what would represent the considerable coup of acquiring the 26-year-old immediately.
(14) GnRH infusion produced an immediate increase in plasma LH concentrations in the mares that ovulated during the infusion period and LH levels peaked at the time of ovulation.
(15) Release of nsP4 from P1234 appears to be independent of the other cleavages and occurs primarily immediately after translation.
(16) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
(17) Benzaldehyde's in cherries and cherrystones and amaretto, so it's immediately a base to pair things with."
(18) Since iron from fortified formulas is well absorbed during the first three months of life, even if it is not immediately used for hemoglobin formation, an inccrease in the iron stores will occur...
(19) The 14-fold increase in prolonged apnea frequency immediately following regurgitation supports the hypothesis for a causal relationship between apnea and regurgitation.
(20) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).
Instant
Definition:
(a.) Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest.
(a.) Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay.
(a.) Present; current.
(adv.) Instantly.
(a.) A point in duration; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment.
(a.) A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth instant; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the month instant, i. e., the current month. See Instant, a., 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) We were instantly refused entrance by the heavies at the door.
(2) Top 10 Arpad Cseh Senior investment director, UBS Alice La Trobe Weston Executive director, head of European credit research, MSIM Morgan Stanley Katie Garrett Executive director, senior engineer, Goldman Sachs Alix Ainsley, Charlotte Cherry H R director, group operations (job share), Lloyds Banking Group Matt Dawson Director for business development, The Instant Group Angela Kitching, Hannah Pearce Head of external affairs (job share), Age UK Morwen Williams Head of newsgathering operations, BBC Georgina Faulkner Head of Sky multisports, Sky Maggie Stilwell Managing partner for talent, UK & Ireland, EY Sarah Moore Partner, PwC
(3) The MAST CLA system assay protocol consists of three steps: overnight incubation of serum, a 4-h incubation with enzyme-labeled antibody, and a 30-min chemiluminescent reaction, which produces a visible image (immunograph) on high-speed Polaroid instant film.
(4) On hearing the news of Mladic's arrest, I instantly thought of a man I got to know when visiting Sarajevo and the Republika Srpska to write about the Srebrenica massacre.
(5) Peak-to-peak, instant peak and mean pressure gradients were measured.
(6) 3.46am BST Here's the instant response from Ewen MacAskill , at the scene of the debate-crime: Barack Obama staged a strong comeback in his second showdown with Mitt Romney, with the president describing his Republican opponent as "offensive" in suggesting he was playing politics over Benghazi and portraying him as more extreme than George W Bush on social issues such as women's rights.
(7) Desmond offered to pay £1bn to buy the Sun in 2009 – an offer that was instantly rejected by Murdoch.
(8) Although Kazinsky has successfully proved that there is life beyond the UK soaps, he's well aware that landing a Hollywood role is not an instant passport to fame and fortune – or even professional satisfaction.
(9) They ask me to stitch them up and then they instantly return.
(10) The more common tasks are carried out almost instantly; only more complex routines, like finding homology between large sequences or searching and sorting all the restriction sites in a long sequence require longer, but still quite acceptable, times (generally under 30 s).
(11) Take Robert McCrum, for instance, who certainly has his critics, but they, unlike him, do not have instant access to the media.
(12) Naturally the government, which has voted it down in the Commons already, instantly declared they would reverse it , as Tories have done with every constitutional reform from the Chartists to the suffragettes.
(13) When I first saw the video I instantly recognised something about the voice,” Leech said.
(14) We sit at a small square table, nursing cups of instant coffee.
(15) And I decided that the best way for me to come to America was to become a bodybuilding champion, because I knew that was the ticket the instant that I saw a magazine cover of my idol, Reg Park.
(16) Bell pointed to the virtual dissolution of the work ethic for instant gratification, and to the inability of liberalism to deal with the consequences.
(17) Other zookeepers quickly pulled Patience away from Bradford but he had been killed instantly, Scott said.
(18) The emitted photons were detected with instant photographic films.
(19) Several myths and misconceptions feature prominently amid the instant reaction and punditry.
(20) However visitors to benm.at – an iPhone and iPod touch enthusiasts' website – can download a profile that instantly activates the tethering system free of charge.