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IMMEDIATELY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening
Example:
Come here now!
Synonyms:
at once; directly; forthwith; immediately; instantly; like a shot; now; right away; straight off; straightaway
Classified under:
Pertainym:
immediate (having no intervening medium)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Near or close by
Example:
he passed immediately behind her
Classified under:
Pertainym:
immediate (very close or connected in space or time)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Bearing an immediate relation
Example:
this immediately concerns your future
Classified under:
Adverbs
Pertainym:
immediate (having no intervening medium)
Context examples:
Well, apart from this cigarette-end, was it not suggestive that the only time the lodger went out was immediately after his taking the rooms?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The highest taxonomic rank, immediately above phylum or division.
(Kingdom, NCI Thesaurus)
Subsequent; immediately following in time or order.
(Next, NCI Thesaurus)
The PR following block is shorter than the PR immediately preceding block.
(Mobitz I, NCI Thesaurus)
The last recorded maternal weight prior to birth minus the last recorded weight immediately prior to pregnancy.
(Maternal Weight Gain in Pregnancy, NCI Thesaurus)
Willoughby Smith had been in his bedroom, which he uses as a sitting-room, but the maid heard him at that moment pass along the passage and descend to the study immediately below her.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The waiter immediately withdrew to make the exchange.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
That night we pitched our camp immediately under the cliff—a most wild and desolate spot.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A cell of the uterine wall immediately underling the endometrial epithelium.
(Endometrial Stromal Cell, NCI Thesaurus)
I would not, therefore, immediately charm the snake.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
