(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.
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(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.
Minute
Definition:
(n.) The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.)
(n.) The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus ('); as, 10¡ 20').
(n.) A nautical or a geographic mile.
(n.) A coin; a half farthing.
(n.) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a tittle.
(n.) A point of time; a moment.
(n.) The memorandum; a record; a note to preserve the memory of anything; as, to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a conversation or debate.
(n.) A fixed part of a module. See Module.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
(a.) Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable.
(a.) Attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute observation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Frenchman’s 65th-minute goal was a fifth for United and redemptive after he conceded the penalty from which CSKA Moscow took a first-half lead.
(2) They spend about 4.3 minutes of each working hour on a smoking break, the study shows.
(3) Both development of EDTA-resistant fibrinogen binding and fibrinogen association with the cytoskeleton were time dependent and reached maxima 45 to 60 minutes after fibrinogen binding to stimulated platelets.
(4) Average fluoroscopy time per procedure was 27.8 minutes of which 15.1 minutes were for nephrostomy tube insertion and 12.7 minutes were for calculi extraction.
(5) In some experiments heart rate and minute ventilation (central vactors) appear to be the dominant cues for rated perceived exertion, while in others, local factors such as blood lactate concentration and muscular discomfort seem to be the prominent cues.
(6) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
(7) Preincubation of the bacteria at 56 degrees C for 30 minutes and ultraviolet irradiation resulted in a noticeable decrease in adherence.
(8) Densitometric analysis of myofibrillar proteins separated with sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicated that troponin I and troponin T were degraded during 60 minutes of CGI.
(9) Median time for ventilatory support was 90 minutes after transfer to the area.
(10) One-half of the specimens were treated with citric acid, pH 1, for 3 minutes, while the remainder served as untreated control specimens.
(11) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
(12) The drug-picrate chromophores maximally absorb within the first minute of reaction (21 s for phenacemide, 45 s for cephalothin), after which the absorbances decrease.
(13) During periods of wet steam it was impossible to maintain consistent sterility of the mouse pellets even using a cycle of 126 degrees C for 60 minutes.
(14) Immediately prior to and at maximal workloads, carbon monoxide shifted into extravascular spaces and returned to the vascular space within five minutes after exercise stopped.
(15) The mutations of both strains (termed hha-2 and hha-3) were mapped at minute 10.5 of the E. coli chromosome.
(16) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(17) The visitors did have a chance to pull another back with three minutes remaining but Henry blazed a free-kick from within range on the left over the bar, summing up Wolves’ day out in the East Midlands.
(18) In a second set of test sessions, volunteers chewed sugarless gum for 10 minutes, starting 15 minutes after they ate the snack food.
(19) On the other hand, the injection of minute quantities of endotoxin into PbAc(2)-sensitized rats invariably resulted in disseminated intravascular coagulation, apparently via a complete activation of the intrinsic pathway.
(20) Basal as well as furosemide stimulated plasma renin activity (at 10, 30 and 240 minutes) was reduced, as well as the transient increase in excretion rates of 6-keto-PGF1 alpha and TXB2.