IMMEDIATE : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: IMMEDIATE	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
immediate adj of the present time and place; "the immediate revisions" very close or connected in space or time; "contiguous events"; "immediate contact"; "the immediate vicinity"; "the immediate past" Synonym(s): contiguous, immediate having no intervening medium; "an immediate influence" Antonym(s): mediate immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect; "the immediate result"; "the immediate cause of the trouble" performed with little or no delay; "an immediate reply to my letter"; "a prompt reply"; "was quick to respond"; "a straightaway denial" Synonym(s): immediate, prompt, quick, straightaway
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Immediate \Imme"diate\, a. [F. imm[82]diat. See {In-} not, and {Mediate}.] 1. Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact. You are the most immediate to our throne. --Shak. 2. Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant. [bd]Assemble we immediate council.[b8] --Shak. Death . . . not yet inflicted, as he feared, By some immediate stroke. --Milton. 3. Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly; as, an immediate cause. The immediate knowledge of the past is therefore impossible. --Sir. W. Hamilton. {Immediate amputation} (Surg.), an amputation performed within the first few hours after an injury, and before the the effects of the shock have passed away. Syn: Proximate; close; direct; next.