instant

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  "Thomas John next instant was sitting on the floor."
• WordNet 3.6
  • adj instant demanding attention "clamant needs","a crying need","regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken","insistent hunger","an instant need"
  • adj instant occurring with no delay "relief was instantaneous","instant gratification"
  • adj instant in or of the present month "your letter of the 10th inst"
  • n instant a particular point in time "the moment he arrived the party began"
  • n instant a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"
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• Interesting fact: During World War II the U.S. government used 260 million pounds of instant coffee.
• • Instant 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.
  • Instant A point in time; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment; as, teh situation may change in an instant . "There is scarce an instant between their flourishing and their not being."
  • Instant Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay. "Impending death is thine, and instant doom."
  • adv Instant Instantly. "Instant he flew with hospitable haste."
  • Instant Present; current. "The instant time is always the fittest time."
  • Instant Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest. "Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer.""I am beginning to be very instant for some sort of occupation."
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• Interesting fact: First Instant Replay was used during Army Navy Football Game at Municipal Stadium Philadelphia on December 7, 1963, invented by Tony Verna (CBS Director.)
• • instant Present; current; now passing: as, on the 8th of June instant; the 10th instant (that is, the 10th day “in the present month,” Latin instante mense).
  • instant Immediate; with no interval of time intervening; instantaneous.
  • instant Immediate in succession; very next.
  • instant Insistent; urgent; earnest; pressing.
  • n instant A particular point of time regarded as present.
  • n instant A point in duration; a moment; a very small period or interval of time: as, he will return in an instant.
  • n instant Application; instance.
  • n instant Synonyms Minute, etc. See moment.
  • instant Instantly; very soon.
  • instant To importune; urge.
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• Interesting fact: If a small amount of liquor were placed on a scorpion, it would instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
• • adj Instant in′stant pressing, urgent: immediate: quick: without delay: present, current, as the passing month
  • n Instant the present moment of time: any moment or point of time
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• Bert Williams

  

  “Books had instant replay long before televised sports.”
• Thomas Wolfe

  

  “One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.”
• Chauncey Depew

  

  “The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.”
• Thomas Carlyle

  

  “All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.”
• Christian Nevell Bovee

  

  “False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.”
• Henry David Thoreau

  

  “Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.”

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