Word Finder - instant

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A very short period of time; a moment.

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She paused for only an instant, which was just enough time for John to change the subject.

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A single, usually precise, point in time.

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The instant the alarm went off, he fled the building.

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A beverage or food which has been pre-processed to reduce preparation time, especially instant coffee.

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A camera that uses self-developing film to create a chemically developed print shortly after the photograph is taken.

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In an instant he was beside her, trying to take the bale from her hands.

In that instant the telephone rang.

She felt for his hand and knew an instant warm rush when she found it.

At last, however, the sea, as if weary of its new toy, threw me back on the shore, and in another instant I was clasped in my teacher's arms.

For one brief instant, he looked at Adrienne as if he actually saw her.

Who? flashed for an instant through his mind.

In that instant, it occurred to her that Lori might be one of them.

He would be ready to change it the instant it emptied.

At this instant, they heard the quick rustle of the countess' dress.

The instant I felt its warmth I was reassured, and I sat a long time watching it climb higher and higher in shining waves.

The jerk acted drunk with his instant fame.

In an instant he entered the coop and pushed Carmen back, putting himself between her and the fox.

In an instant he pulled her back into his arms and reclaimed her lips.

The response was instant.

She hadn't felt instant attraction to a man since high school.

In an instant he had her down and pinned to the floor.

The idea is the power of short, instant messages broadcast to interested crowds.

She hesitated for an instant whether to speak or not.

He holds - on grounds of fact and science - to the mechanical orderliness of nature, but claims that the Weltanschauung thus suggested may be reinterpreted in view of those undying human aspirations which MacTaggart dismisses to instant execution (unless they can dress themselves in syllogism).

An instant later the Tiger crouched and launched its huge body through the air swift and resistless as a ball from a cannon.

He was glad, and at the same instant began to pity the miserable man who stood before him, but the task he had begun had to be completed.

At the same instant they heard a report and Dolokhov's angry cry.

Yes, at once, that very instant, her fate would be decided.

At the same instant, with a cry like a wail, first one hound, then another, and then another, sprang helter-skelter from the wood opposite and the whole pack rushed across the field toward the very spot where the wolf had disappeared.

That instant, when Nicholas saw the wolf struggling in the gully with the dogs, while from under them could be seen her gray hair and outstretched hind leg and her frightened choking head, with her ears laid back (Karay was pinning her by the throat), was the happiest moment of his life.

A cannon ball struck the very end of the earth work by which he was standing, crumbling down the earth; a black ball flashed before his eyes and at the same instant plumped into something.

She went in with rapid steps, pausing at the door for an instant as if struggling with herself, and then ran to her mother.

The Emperor with a rapid glance scanned Kutuzov from head to foot, frowned for an instant, but immediately mastering himself went up to the old man, extended his arms and embraced him.

There had been an instant bond between them from the day they met.

For a crazy instant, Carmen wasn't sure who he was talking to.

With the adoption of relays the signalling between the subscribers and the exchange became automatic, and, with the introduction of the principle of double and automatic supervision on the cord circuits, it became possible for the operators to tell at any instant the state of a connexion.

He had an intellectual and distinctive head, but the instant he turned to Prince Andrew the firm, intelligent expression on his face changed in a way evidently deliberate and habitual to him.

He tried to get away from them, but they would not for an instant let his shoulder move a hair's breadth.

Anna Pavlovna threatened him on behalf of "our dear Vyazmitinov," and in her eyes, which, for an instant, glanced at Pierre, Prince Vasili read a congratulation on his future son-in-law and on his daughter's happiness.

She saw Prince Vasili's face, serious for an instant at the sight of her, but immediately smiling again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression "Marie" produced on the visitors.

The smoke, rendered denser by the mist, prevented him from seeing anything for an instant, but there was no second report as he had expected.

Burning lips were pressed to hers, and at the same instant she felt herself released, and Helene's footsteps and the rustle of her dress were heard in the room.

In an instant the tramp of horses galloping forward was heard, shouts came from various sides, and then more shots.

Another benefit of this type of debt program involves instant savings.

The consequence of these further issues was instant depreciation, and the note of Too francs nominal value sank to less than 20 francs coin.

If a point be in motion in any orbit and with any velocity, and if, at each instant, a line be drawn from a fixed point parallel and equal to the velocity of the moving point at that instant, the extremities of these lines will lie on a curve called the hodograph.

At the end of the stroke, when his platform comes opposite to a corresponding platform on the other rod, he steps over on to the latter during the instant of rest prior to the reversal of the stroke, descends with the second rod on this down stroke, steps again at the proper time to a platform of the first rod and so on to the bottom.

Taking the axis of x for an instant in the normal through a point on the surface H = constant, this makes u = o, = o; and in steady motion the equations reduce to dH/dv=2q-2wn = 2gco sin e, (4) where B is the angle between the stream line and vortex line; and this holds for their projection on any plane to which dv is drawn perpendicular.

In an instant the whole Republic was seething like a caldron, and a rival assembly was simultaneously summoned to Cracow by Jan Ferlej, the head of the Protestant party.

But at that very instant a cloud of smoke spread all round, firing was heard quite close at hand, and a voice of naive terror barely two steps from Prince Andrew shouted, Brothers!

Some parents use an instant reward system, which consists of small candies or other treats.

He considered, at every instant, the actual motion of a stratum as composed of a motion which it had in the preceding instant and of a motion which it had lost; and the laws of equilibrium between the motions lost furnished him with equations representing the motion of the fluid.

As a rule these equations are established immediately by determining the component acceleration of the fluid particle which is passing through (x, y, z) at the instant t of time considered, and saying that the reversed acceleration or kinetic reaction, combined with the impressed force per unit of mass and pressure-gradient, will according to d'Alembert's principle form a system in equilibrium.

Over a concentric cylinder, external or internal, of radius r=b, 4,'=4,+ Uly =[U I - + Ui]y, (4) and 4" is zero if U 1 /U = (a 2 - b2)/b 2; (5) so that the cylinder may swim for an instant in the liquid without distortion, with this velocity Ui; and w in (I) will give the liquid motion in the interspace between the fixed cylinder r =a and the concentric cylinder r=b, moving with velocity U1.

When the liquid is bounded externally by the fixed ellipsoid A = A I, a slight extension will give the velocity function 4 of the liquid in the interspace as the ellipsoid A=o is passing with velocity U through the confocal position; 4 must now take the formx(1'+N), and will satisfy the conditions in the shape CM abcdX ¢ = Ux - Ux a b x 2+X)P Bo+CoB I - C 1 (A 1 abcdX, I a1b1cl - J o (a2+ A)P and any'confocal ellipsoid defined by A, internal or external to A=A 1, may be supposed to swim with the liquid for an instant, without distortion or rotation, with velocity along Ox BA+CA-B 1 -C1 W'.