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Instant
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(instants) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. An instant is an extremely short period of time. For an instant, Catherine was tempted to flee... The pain disappeared in an instant. = moment N-COUNT: usu sing 2. If you say that something happens at a particular instant, you mean that it happens at exactly the time you have been referring to, and you are usually suggesting that it happens quickly or immediately. At that instant the museum was plunged into total darkness... = moment N-SING: with supp, usu at/in N 3. To do something the instant something else happens means to do it immediately. I had bolted the door the instant I had seen the bat. PHRASE c darkgreen]emphasis 4. You use instant to describe something that happens immediately. He had taken an instant dislike to Mortlake. = immediate ADJ: usu ADJ n • instantly The man was killed instantly... ADV: ADV with v, ADV adj 5. Instant food is food that you can prepare very quickly, for example by just adding water. ...instant coffee. ADJ: ADJ n
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin ~-, instans, from ~-, instans, adjective, ~, from Latin Date: 14th century 1. an infinitesimal space of time; especially a point in time separating two states at the ~ of death 2. the present or current month II. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French or Latin; Anglo-French, from Latin ~-, instans, from present participle of instare to stand upon, urge, from in- + stare to stand — more at stand Date: 15th century 1. importunate, urgent 2. a. present, current previous felonies not related to the ~ crime b. of or occurring in the present month — abbreviation inst 3. immediate, direct the play was an ~ success 4. a. (1) premixed or precooked for easy final preparation ~ pudding (2) appearing in or as if in ready-to-use form ~ poetry b. immediately soluble in water ~ coffee 5. produced or occurring with or as if with extreme rapidity and ease • ~ness noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. & n. --adj. 1 occurring immediately (gives an instant result). 2 a (of food etc.) ready for immediate use, with little or no preparation. b prepared hastily and with little effort (I have no instant solution). 3 urgent; pressing. 4 Commerce of the current month (the 6th instant). 5 archaic of the present moment. --n. 1 a precise moment of time, esp. the present (come here this instant; went that instant; told you the instant I heard). 2 a short space of time (was there in an instant; not an instant too soon). Phrases and idioms instant replay the immediate repetition of part of a filmed sports event, often in slow motion. Etymology: ME f. F f. L instare instant- be present, press upon (as IN-(2), stare stand) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
Англо-русский Русско-английски словарь по телекоммуникациям
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1) мгновение 2) мгновенный 3) момент времени 4) моментальный 5) немедленный 6) текущий - instant center - instant of time - instant rotation - instant selection - instant time - sampling instant ...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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1. мгновение, минута I called you the instant (that) I arrived —- как только я приехал, я сразу же тебе позвонил this instant —- сейчас (же); сию минуту come this instant —- приходи немедленно it won't take me an instant —- не пройдет и минуты, как я..., я мигом at that very instant —- в (э)тот самый момент in an instant —- немедленно; тотчас; в мгновение; спустя (через) минуту I shall be back in an instant —- я сейчас вернусь in another instant I was saved —- еще мгновение - и я был спасен on the instant —- тотчас, в тот же момент (миг) for an instant —- на мгновение to pause for an instant —- остановиться на минуту 2. немедленный, незамедлительный; мгновенный instant response —- немедленный ответ; мгновенная реакция to feel instant relief —- сразу же почувствовать себя лучше he became an instant celebrity —- он моментально стал знаменитостью 3. непосредственный, прямой instant dependence —- прямая зависимость the instant connection between smth. —- непосредственная связь между чем-л. 4. настоятельный, безотлагательный, срочный to be in instant need of smth. —- испытывать настоятельную необходимость в чем-л. 5. офиц. текущий (о месяце) the 10th instant 10- —- го числа текущего месяца in the instant case —- в данном (рассматриваемом) случае 6. быстрорастворимый instant coffee —- быстрорастворимый кофе 7. в виде полуфабриката instant cake mix —-...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun мгновение, момент at that very instant - в (э)тот самый момент the instant - как только the instant you call - как только вы позовете on the instant - тотчас, немедленно this instant - сейчас же 2. adj. 1) настоятельный to be in instant need of smth. - испытывать настоятельную нужду в чем-л. 2) немедленный; безотлагательный instant relief - мгновенное облегчение 3) текущий, текущего месяца 4) растворимый (кофе, чай и т.п.) 5) не требующий длительного приготовления instant cake mix - кекс-полуфабрикат ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 adj 1 happening or produced immediately (The women took an instant dislike to one another. | a system that provides instant hot water) 2 only before noun instant food, coffee etc is in the form of powder and prepared by adding hot water (instant coffee) ~2 n 1 C usually singular a moment (She caught his eye for an instant. | in an instant (=immediately)) (When the rain started, the crowd vanished in an instant.) 2 the instant (that) as soon as something happens (The instant I saw him, I knew he was the man the police were looking for.) 3 this instant spoken used when telling someone, especially a child, to do something immediately (Come here this instant!) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- late 14c., from O.Fr. instant, from M.L. instantem (nom. instans), from L. instantem "present, pressing, urgent," prp. of instare "to urge, to stand near, be present (to urge one's case)," from in- "in" + stare "to stand." Originally "urgent," sense of "infinitely short space of time" is elliptical. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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