What's the difference between immediate and momentary?

Immediate


Definition:

  • (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).

Momentary


Definition:

  • (a.) Done in a moment; continuing only a moment; lasting a very short time; as, a momentary pang.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Agüero tried to retreive the situation – proof that City had more than enough finishers on hand to take advantage of momentary Burnley disarray – though, forced away from goal, he shot from a narrow angle and missed the target.
  • (2) The horizontal changes of the other points analyzed as well as all vertical changes are not predicted satisfactorily in the momentary version 4.22 A (febr.
  • (3) These analyses unmasked unique attributes of spontaneous LH secretory events, which were represented as delimited momentary augmentations in endogenous LH secretory rates interspersed among intervals of relative secretory quiescence.
  • (4) Results indicate that momentary DRO maintained response suppression comparable to that obtained by whole-interval DRO.
  • (5) In the epicortical recordings, the development of a new focus is indicated by a functional uncoupling between the superficial layers of the cortical area to be involved and the momentary active focus.
  • (6) All this reached its apogee in 1987, with the sleeve art for Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason .
  • (7) Responses which identified the momentary state of the display were food-reinforced, while those which did not (errors) produced time out.
  • (8) I remember most vividly, as the prey was seized, how one lazuline wing fell outwards like a flag; the hobby's wings seemed to chop and paddle and there was this momentary drama-less inelegance to it, then the falcon swept the victim back into the peerless symmetry of its going, and all was done.
  • (9) Reducing MDx production or the repair period, or accelerating the creation of new modeling units would have the opposite effects on the momentary MDx burden but would also go through a transient phase before developing the new steady state conditions.
  • (10) Previous studies have shown that momentary contact between a methylmethacrylate intraocular lens and the corneal endothelial cells results in extensive cell damage.
  • (11) The momentary entry of urine into the proximal urethra during coughing can be demonstrated by a new test which can be conducted using apparatus now commonly available for urodynamic investigations.
  • (12) In that momentary pause my nerves bubbled up in my chest.
  • (13) How about: 'Fuck off you fucking…'" Cue momentary alarm before, thankfully, his face relaxes and he laughs out loud.
  • (14) It is argued that in schizophrenia a core deficit in momentary processing capacity underlies the above performance pattern.
  • (15) Palatabilities and also satieties are assumption-loaded abstractions from the observable momentary causal relationships between eating or drinking and the situations in which it occurs.
  • (16) After successful colposuspension, the proximal urethra is exposed to compression against the symphysis pubis by the momentary descent of the pelvic viscera during physical effort.
  • (17) Most television, to which talented, energetic people devoted months or years of their lives, has left momentary imprints on our retinas and slightly less momentary imprints on our brains before vanishing into the ether.
  • (18) The further computation of the EEG time series after DHT results in the time series of the momentary power and the momentary frequency.
  • (19) The approach through a left thoracotomy gave good exposure and momentary cessation of cardiopulmonary bypass made ligation of the calcified ductus possible.
  • (20) A system for measuring oxygen consumption from momentary respiratory values of free moving person is described.