Definition of Instant

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Instant

Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest.

Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay.

Present; current.

Instantly.

A point in duration; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment.

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.

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Instant Quotations

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Buddha

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
Tony Robbins

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
Steven Wright

I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.
Steven Wright

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Henry David Thoreau

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Anais Nin

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
Meister Eckhart

Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
e. e. cummings

Instant Translations

instant in Afrikaans is rukkie, oomblik
instant in Dutch is moment, oogwenk, ogenblik, tel
instant in Finnish is hetki
instant in French is moment
instant in German is sofort, tafelfertig {m}, Augenblick {m}, Moment
instant in Italian is momento
instant in Portuguese is imediato
instant in Spanish is momentito, instante, momento

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