(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.
Trice
Definition:
(v. t.) To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.
(v. t.) To haul and tie up by means of a rope.
(n.) A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Metformin 0.5 g trice daily or placebo were given for 4 weeks.
(2) This dorsal approach, easy to perform, ensures in a trice the "resting position" of the thumb and the articular congruity.
(3) meter disposable dialyzers and a dialysis strategy of 3 hours every other day or 4 hours trice weekly have been presented.
(4) In Groups B, C, D, G, H and I, the wound was painted trice weekly with a 0.5% solution of Trp-P-2 in DMSO for 8 weeks.
(5) This is the kind of creative accounting that could end the deficit in a trice.)
(6) Soaring inflation could and would destroy that link in a trice.
(7) In Groups A and F, the wound was painted trice weekly with DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) for 8 weeks.
(8) He was treated with bicarbonated hemodialysis trice weekly.
(9) I lope into Café Rui and in a trice they've laid me a place and grilled me some fat small sardines, and found a handful of small squid, which they fry in good oil with cloves of golden garlic.
(10) Bank regulation has been kicked into 2019 – political neverland: in a trice the entire NHS is put up for tender to "any qualified provider" , but banks get seven years to "prepare" while they lobby against already weak reforms.
(11) Don't look for consistency, either: MacMillan could veer between genius, excess and claptrap in a trice – and deciding which is which still divides opinion to this day.
(12) To determine the effect of a recombinant alpha interferon 2b (Intron-A) and possible benefit of prednisolone pretreatment in chronic non-A, non-B hepatitis, 75 Chinese patients with clinico-histologically proven chronic hepatitis were randomly allocated to one of the following regimens: (A) 3 million units of Intron-A trice weekly for 6 months; (B) dose titration according to ALT-AST values; (C) prednisolone withdrawal followed by regimen A; (D) control group: no treatment for 6 months but followed by alternating treatment with 3 million units of Intron-A trice weekly for 2 weeks followed by 2 weeks no treatment for 6 months.
(13) And Jill Abramson , executive editor of the New York Times , was out in a trice, too – sacked, brushed away, her name erased from the paper's masthead with a ruthlessness Kim Jong-Il might have envied.