Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY!
Home - Quote Topics - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Author Nationalities

Authors:    A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z 

Google Web brainyquote.com   
Definition of Immediate
Immediate

Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.

Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.

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.

Related Definitions:
Acting, Agency, An, Another, Anything, As, Between, By, Cause, Close, Contact, Deferred, Directly, Immediate, In, Instant, Interposed, Interval, Intervening, Intervention, Not, Nothing, Object, Of, Or, Perceived, Place, Present, Produced, Proximate, Respect, Separated, The, Time, To, With, Without


Immediate Quotations

Radio is immediate.
Wink Martindale

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
George Carlin

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Oscar Wilde

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Plato

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.
Augusto Roa Bastos

Immediate Translations

immediate in Dutch is ogenblikkelijk, prompt
immediate in German is unmittelbar
immediate in Italian is immediato
immediate in Portuguese is imediato
immediate in Swedish is omedelbar


Quotes    RSS Feeds        Copyright 2008 BrainyMedia.com