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# immediately

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

«immediately» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Immediately means at once, right now, without waiting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immediately/#m1)
2. Immediately means directly next to, with nothing in between: «immediately behind the school». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immediately/#m2)

### 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

- Leave the building immediately when the fire alarm rings. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immediately/#x1)
- Come here immediately! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immediately/#x2)
- Tell an adult immediately if someone is hurt. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immediately/#x3)
- Wash cuts immediately with clean water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immediately/#x4)
- The shop is immediately next to the bank. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immediately/#x5)
- He fell asleep immediately. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immediately/#x6)
- Immediately after lunch we went outside. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immediately/#x7)
- The Eagle accepted the Kite immediately. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immediately/#x8)

### 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 Jewish tradition

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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/immediately/#x1)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/immediately/#x2)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «immediately» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/immediately/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«immediately» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/immediately.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «immediately» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/immediately/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«immediately» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/immediately.html) on Mova free.