An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
IMMEDIATE
contiguous, immediate
(adjective) very close or connected in space or time; “contiguous events”; “immediate contact”; “the immediate vicinity”; “the immediate past”
immediate
(adjective) having no intervening medium; “an immediate influence”
immediate, prompt, quick, straightaway
(adjective) performed with little or no delay; “an immediate reply to my letter”; “a prompt reply”; “was quick to respond”; “a straightaway denial”
immediate
(adjective) immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect; “the immediate result”; “the immediate cause of the trouble”
immediate
(adjective) of the present time and place; “the immediate revisions”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
immediate (comparative more immediate, superlative most immediate)
Happening right away, instantly, with no delay.
Very close; direct or adjacent.
Manifestly true; requiring no argument.
(computer science, of an instruction operand) embedded as part of the instruction itself, rather than stored elsewhere (such as a register or memory location)
(procedure word, military) Used to denote that a transmission is urgent.
(procedure word, military) An artillery fire mission modifier for to types of fire mission to denote an immediate need for fire: Immediate smoke, all guns involved must reload smoke and fire. Immediate suppression, all guns involved fire the rounds currently loaded and then switch to high explosive with impact fused (unless fuses are specified).
Synonyms
• (happening right away): instant, present; see also instantaneous
• (very close): close, nearby; see also near
• (manifestly true): self-evident, indubitable
Anagrams
• metiamide
Source: Wiktionary
Im*me"di*ate, a. Etym: [F. immédiat. 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. "Assemble we immediate council." 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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