(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.
Instantiate
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) On the Test Trial 2, a new object pair (e.g., BB vs. EF) was presented that instantiated either the relation shown on Trial 1 or the alternative relation.
(2) The second problem is the determination of the most probable, second most probable, third most probable, and so on sets of values of a particular set of variables (called the explanation set) given that certain variables are instantiated for particular values.
(3) While phonetics cannot inform phonology about the appropriateness of a particular underlying form, there should be some phonetic transparency between the underlying form and its ultimate phonetic instantiation.
(4) It took another 40 years for Turing's imagined game to become a reality, when in 1990 the American philanthropist Hugh Loebner founded the annual Loebner prize for artificial intelligence , "the first formal instantiation of the Turing test".
(5) It was assumed that items that maximally instantiated the rule were those farthest from the category boundary that separated small and large stimuli.
(6) We instantiated each type of error by providing detailed specific examples, and identified the consequences of each error.
(7) Every violent process that becomes concretized or becomes the norm constitutes an interference in the vital human process in its various instantiations: it threatens life, alters health, produces disease, and presents death as a reality or an immediate possibility.
(8) Ideals and frequency of instantiation predicted graded structure in both category types to sizeable and equal extents.
(9) Although they successfully matched single objects, they were unable to match object pairs instantiating the same relation (e.g., if AA then match BB; if CD then match EF).
(10) The results could not be predicted solely on the basis of the degree to which the rules were instantiated.
(11) The results suggested that there weren't the instantiated representations of categories.
(12) Perceptual taking of an ecological property is always in one or another of the latter's instantiations, and perceptual taking of an ecological entity or event is always with properties.
(13) Object choices and searching behavior revealed that the sea lion processed information about the relation of size as well as about the specific characteristics of the sizes of spheres that instantiated the relations.
(14) We develop a neural network model that instantiates color constancy and color categorization in a single unified framework.
(15) What has to be demonstrated by such explanations is how an information-processing capacity is actually instantiated in a system.
(16) It was assumed that items that maximally instantiated the rule were those with both positive values (x and y).
(17) The first problem is the determination of the conditional probabilities of the values of remaining propositional variables in the network given that certain variables are instantiated for particular values.
(18) Two studies were conducted using severely and profoundly deaf high school students to determine their ability to instantiate particular exemplars of general nouns and to use those instantiations as retrieval cues.
(19) Instantiation of general terms in discourse requires inference from general world knowledge and use of linguistic context to particularize meaning.
(20) An instantiation of the model accounts for the major features of the data.