immediately

«immediately» in Mova's judaism dictionary: at once, right now, without waiting — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adverb (immediately); conjunction (immediately — British, «as soon as»)

meaning for a pupil

1) Immediately means at once, right now, without waiting. tree →

2) Immediately means directly next to, with nothing in between: «immediately behind the school». tree →

sense in the lessons

In safety lessons pupils must react immediately to a fire alarm, a teacher's call or an emergency: stop, listen, leave. In instructions «immediately» means no delay. In stories something happens immediately after something else. Phrases: immediately after, leave immediately, call immediately, immediately behind.

examples

• Immediately Joseph sat down and wrote down the sefer Yetzirah at the dictation of B'"usy." (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• Immediately Joseph sat down and wrote down these words at the dictation of ty"Bsy [Ben Sira], and he wrote them in five books on the earth : Sefer Yetzirah, etc." (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• Leave the building immediately when the fire alarm rings. tree →
• Come here immediately! tree →
• Tell an adult immediately if someone is hurt. tree →
• Wash cuts immediately with clean water. tree →
• The shop is immediately next to the bank. tree →
• He fell asleep immediately. tree →
• Immediately after lunch we went outside. tree →
• The Eagle accepted the Kite immediately. tree →

note

Spelling trap: im-me-di-ate-ly — double «m», and keep the «e» before -ly. Similar words: at once, right away, instantly, straight away. Opposite: later, eventually.

In the corpora

• If you swallow medicine or something poisonous by mistake, tell an adult immediately so they can call poison control or emergency help.
• A swallowed button battery can burn through the throat within about two hours, so the child must go to hospital immediately.
• A swallowed button battery means going to hospital immediately.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «immediately» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.